North Eugene Banning Cell Phones

Did you know that the average person spends four years of their lives looking at their phones? The average lifespan of a person is only 78.8 years- how many years do you want students at North to waste looking at their screens instead of learning and broadening their skills? The administration at North Eugene High School is proposing to ban the use of cell phones from 7:30 to 3:15. I believe that North Eugene should ban the use of cell phones because they are distracting, problematic in classrooms, and damaging to social skills.
Although cell phones can be great tools for learning, they are more so a distraction to academics. As stated in Document Two, cellphones are useful to parents because they provide “safety and reassurance” when students …show more content…
Document Seven states that “So many “I’s”! So many selfies! Not enough “us’es” and “we’s”!” This states that technology has made people very self centered and selfish. It then goes on to call Facebook an “anti-social network.” In Document Seven, it says that “we sit at home on our computers, measuring self-worth by numbers of followers and likes, ignoring those that actually love us.” In my own life, I have friends that I have known for years that now would rather use apps to communicate as opposed to face to face interaction. These friends also spend horrible amounts of time online, away from their families. In Blue Gold, Sylvie’s online campaign (p.115) is an example of what people can learn from cell phones and the internet. However, studies now show that the average adult’s attention span is “one second than that of a goldfish.” This is an example of the long-term damage that can be afflicted upon our youth because of technology. Another example is how Fiona reacted initially to her photo in Blue Gold: cell phones can cause emotional damage, as well. North Eugene should be a screen-free campus because cell phones are hurting communication and social skills in young