One can always turn the cell phone on during lunch or between classes in order to retrieve messages from home or work if needed. In the event of a true emergency, the cell phone is available for use as well. Also now in days the new phones that are coming out come with apps to download games, that is even a bigger distraction because not only just texting or on the web now they’re playing games. Almost everyone is guilty of texting up a friend or logging on Facebook when they get bored, but even when thumb dialing or typing a message on Facebook chat is kept silent, having a phone or laptop during class hurts the student even more than distracting a teacher or their peers. Students should take a teacher's class policies into consideration before bringing those items to class in the event the teacher has requested they are not brought …show more content…
If a student is using a cell phone in class, they are either distracting others, ignoring the lessons, cheating, or simply side tracked. It’s also very disrespectful to the teacher, who most likely doesn’t get paid enough, to teach things that we need to know for later in life, even though it may seem like we need to know as much as they try to cram in our heads. Cell phones are bad to use in class because even if you have it on vibrate or silent you can still distract people by laughing at the text messages you get or by asking someone a question if you don’t know how to spell something. You can also distract the teacher by doing this because the teacher might tell you to put it away and having to do that repeatedly causes the teacher to stop teaching just to tell you to stop using the phone and that’s valuable time when you can be learning