Thursday, September 12, 2013

Should Cell-phones be allowed in school?~


I attend a school called Saipan International School, where cell phone use is not allowed during the school day. I believe that cell phone use should be allowed during the school day because cell phones are useful in other stuff rather than playing games on it; for instance, calling a parent or listening to music. Today’s prompt asks is cell phones should be allowed during school day, and the answer to that is; YES PLEASE!
I am really not a cell phone person and I hardly use it; though I do not use it as much as my other classmates I still think that it is really something useful in school…sometimes. In SIS, most of my classmates use their phones, a lot, and by having the device allowed, they will not go to the trouble of sneaking them around the school so they won’t get detention. The main reason I think that many of the student want to have their cell phones allowed if because they want to also listen to music; I really do not think that the prompt is specifically talking about cell phone but all electronic devices that resemble a phone. Listening to music is not really a bad thing and the advantage of having so many students listening to music (with earphones) is that they volume in most classes will decrease because most students will not talk. The teachers always complain that the students are way too loud, so having the students use their cell phones to listen to music.
Some may think that having cell phones allowed in school is a bad thing because most will think that students will use their cell phones in classes; that is not the case. We just want to be able to use our phones during breaks, not during classes because its common sense that we are not allowed to play with our phones in class at all. Like I said I am not really a phone person but I do support us using it. Another reason that I think phones should be allowed is that at SIS, most of our lunches are delivered to our school and we need to contact the restraint, being an enclosed private school we are not allowed to go anywhere except our classrooms. Most of the students in SIS order from restraints because to be honest, the menu for our school lunches stink; we are not like normal American high schools where there are varieties of certain foods; we are given some sort of concoction that passes as lunch.
The most important support for the use of cell phones is parent’s calling; some of the students in SIS receive detention for their phone being active at school because their parents are calling and it really isn’t fair. Sometimes parents forget what they are doing and call their child when they are at school; sometimes it emergencies. I also think that some students need to talk to their parents too, so calling them is something that we need to do. Though it really isn't useful for me to protest; this is because most of the teachers are cool, and if we ask them to let us call, they say yes. The only thing though is that if you do not ask permission to use your phone, you get detention.
That’s all I want to say about the cell phone rule in school; I am not really against is strongly but I still want cell phone use to be available. Thank you for reading~~~~~

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