Should Cell Phones Be Allowed In School?

Cell Phones and technology in general have been a huge topic on whether or not it should be allowed in school since the early 1990s. It wasn't only meant for cell phones but it was always meant for pagers and walk mans. The reasons this was a huge topic cause teachers believed it was a distraction and used for drugs or gangs. As the 90s went on the more common cell phones got and the smaller and cheaper they got it was suddenly getting hard to control the cell phones in school. The year 2007 is when cell phones became a problem in school because now they were way more common and had more features to them. Then in 2010 cell phones were common in the classroom it seemed like everyone was starting to use them for work and for music but mostly for distraction and from then on till now teachers have different stances on whether or not cell phones should be in their classroom or not.

First i will give you on some pros cell phones have for the students. Cell phones can help kids with math problems they can't understand they can just look up how to solve a certain equation and suddenly examples pop up that …show more content…
Cell phones are a huge distraction in the classroom like for example someone can be playing their music full blast next to a student who needs quite to work then other kids hear the songs maybe some people love the song and start to sing the song and don't concentrate on their work. That's just one way it can distract kids. Another example is kids can cheat on tests now they just have to take a picture of the question and suddenly the internet has the answers to all the questions on the test this can cause kids not to be ready for the next level in school because they didn't learn anything they just copied the math answers down this will cause a setback in teaching curriculum because teachers will have to go back and teach the kids something they should have already