Banning Cell Phones in School

The main concern of this portion of the section of the book is discussing the growing problems of cell phones in the classroom. It is seems that students are capable of displaying etiquette in other areas of their lives at school, such as raising their hands in class to talk and not cutting in the lunch line, but this etiquette doesn't appear to transfer to the students new and most valuable possession...their cell phones. The main problem with this is that cell phones are answered during classes, meetings, and lectures without a second thought. This causes a problem because it is hard for people to filter out a one way conversion and causes a major distraction. Cell phones have even been utilized to start fights in schools and other forms of disturbances.

In my opinion cell phones in schools are a necessary evil. The reason for this being that a lot of kids do need their cell phones to communicate with parents about after school activities, however there is a way to avoid cell phone abuse by students. This can be done by having students leave cell phones in their lockers and turn them off so that they are capable of using them for after school plans. This could be a good compromise because they still get to have them but just not have them as a distraction during the school day. In addition to turning off their phones there should also be cell phone etiquette rules posted in the school rules on the proper cell phone use in and out of the classroom. This can help to further prevent and control inappropriate cell phone use.