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 Michelle Singler

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Cell phones should not be permitted in school because it is a great distraction for many students from their school work. When a student is in school a cell phone should either be turned off or not with them but if they are found with the cellphone and it is turned on, then they will get a detention. Parents give their children cellphone because they believe they need it for emergencies, but if they had an emergency at school the school would be the one to call the parents, not the child. Teachers would benefit if cellphone were no longer a problem because then the children would focus more on learning and getting better grades than just teeing their friends. Cellphones should not be allowed in school so the children would not get distracted with texting, focus more on their work, and get better grades in their classes so then can get into a college.

Cellphone are a great distraction for all students in any grade level and can lead to failing in classes. When a child has a cellphone they want to show it off to their friends and they will not focus on their school work. As a child they should only be focused on learning as much as possible and not be thinking about texting their friends in other class because then they wont know what their own teacher is teaching them. Answering a text that some one sent you during school hours is just as bad sending the text yourself because your cellphone should not have been with you. Getting bad grades in school, not focusing in your school work, and caring more about your friends will not help you in your future in anyway.

Students get detentions when they have there cellphones out during school hours and this will lead them to get a detention. Texting in class in not permitted no matter what the reason because you should not have a reason. Students not only text friends but can get the cellphone number of someone they don't like and send them unkind messages. Texting someone you do not like an unkind message is even worse that just teeing a friend because you shall not only be accused of using your cellphone but also bullying a fellow classmate. If you text or get caught to often with your cellphone and get to many detention it will be on your permanent recored and it will effect you future when you want to do something benefitting.

Cellphone should only be used for emergency purposes only and no other reason because that is the only reason parents would give their child a cellphone. In school children are safe because they have police and every year the school does drills incase something dangerous does happen. When something dangerous does occur then the school will contact the parents immediately and the child will not. This is why at the begging of each year the schools send out a document saying that they need information on how to contact the parent if their child is in need of help. School is a safe place for all children so there is no need to give them cellphones to contact their parents with because the schools get all that information at the beginning of the year so there is no need to give the students cellphones.

Teachers also benefit from students not having there cellphone in school because then the classes they teach will get better grade and they would also have less detentions to give out. Teachers would also be able to focus on teaching more and less about worrying wether or not the students are contacting their friends or cheating on a quiz or test in class. Students getting better grades in school will help the teachers feel like they have accomplished something instead of feeling that they can teach a student correctly. Teachers would even get more praise from their factuality and students's parents because students would actually learn in their class and not fail at everything the teacher gives them. Teachers need help to permanently get rid of the distractions of cellphones so they can focus on their most important job which is teaching students.