Cell Phones Should Be Banned
In the contemporary era, cell phones have turned out to be one of the most essential every day requirements. There was a time when possessing a cell phone was regarded a luxurious thing. However, in the present times, it has become really common to own a cell phone. It is not an untold secret that children, especially the teenagers, are using the cell phones just like adults. They use their cell phones to do almost everything. Not only are cell phones used to stay in contact with friends and family, they are also used for watching videos, text-messaging, playing games and listening music. Cell phones that have cameras are also used for taking pictures that are later shared with friends. The introduction of smartphones such as Blackberrys and iPhones has allowed them to connect with their friends around the clock on Facebook. In addition, cell phones have made it easy to receive and send emails, locate places and obtain any information required.
However, the use of cell phones in the premises of school and within classrooms has popped up as a hot issue that has raised concerns among the school boards, administrators and teachers. There are a number of issues that can be related with the use of cell phones by students within the walls of school. A majority of people believe that cell phones not only distract the learning environment in the classrooms but are also used by students to cheat on quizzes and tests through texting. Math tests are solved by using the calculator functions in the cell phones. A lot of students use this modern device with the purpose of cyber bullying as they share spiteful and mean messages. Not only this, wicked pupils also has use cell phoned to give false bomb threats. On the other hand, a lot of people hold the opinion that using cell phones is particularly helpful during events of emergency. However, a majority of police officers that are assigned to the educational institutions consider that cell phone usage by students in fact get in the way of...
There are a lot of students who simply turn off the sound of their phones to send the answer to their friends. In seconds, the correct answer is received by the friend in the other corner of the classroom. In addition, the young cell phone users also use this device to contact to other pupils that are in a different classroom for recording, storing and retrieving the right answers. They even get the pictures of their answer sheet captured to deliver them to other fellow students. Thus, it can easily be said that "Cell phones can be the devil's handmaiden when teachers are giving tests -- some students are so familiar with the keyboard, they can text-message answers to friends by reaching into their pockets and never pulling their phones into view" (Sturgeon). As far as the issue of cyber bullying is concerned, the easy access to Face book, Twitter and other such social networking sites have promoted it which is something that must not be brought within the classroom walls. It is the need of the time to understand that Information technology in the classroom is meant for bridging digital devices and for the student research enhancement. It is a real unfortunate fact that networks are increasingly used for the purpose of entertainment and instead of using cell phones for better things, today's Face book Generation is using this useful device for text-messaging during lectures, labs' experiment etc. (Rover).
If truth be told, today public schools have turned out as battlegrounds with teachers and school administrators performing as the bare-handed negotiators. It is a worldwide problem nowadays that behavioral problems are increasingly occurring within schools and cell phones are a big reason behind such patterns. Cell phones are used by students in a number of negative ways. For example, if…
