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It will let the students cheat with ease. Cheating is wrong. Cheating does not make you smarter. Cheating will only hurt the students. They will be able to text friends, or peers for the answers on homework, quizzes, or tests. Cell phones make it easy to trade information, and they are quick and quiet. Putting the cell phone on silent and turning down the brightness will hide the phone more. Not only will they be able to text for the answers, but they will be able to send pictures. This will ensure the child that he/she is answering the question right. Being able to see the question and answer will facilitate with answering the question. “73% of all test takers, including prospective graduate students and teachers agree that most students do cheat at some point. 86% of high school students agreed” (Cheating). With this much cheating happening throughout schools, cell phones would just increase the number. However, having phones in school could also be helpful because they could help during emergencies. Some schools have started to allow phones because of the school shootings that have been happening. With the students being able to have phones they would be able to call emergency numbers or contact parents. I think it would be better to not have phones because if a phone alert went off it could give away hiding positions to the enemy. Also with all of the tracking devices it would just put everyone in
