Why We Should Cell Phones Not Be Banned In School

Cell phones are in no doubt a good way to calculate, research, and also cheat. Many students are in a debate with their teachers and school board about whether or not their phone should be banned from their classroom or if they should be allowed to use it during school hours. Cell phones should not be banned in the classroom, but teachers should put some guidelines on when students should use them and not use them, like prohibiting the use of cellphones during tests and lectures but allowed during independent work times. Students and teachers have been battling the idea of having cell phones in class and school for ages since they blew up and got big. According to Greg Graham (2011), he found a study done by the Kaiser Family Foundation that

It is obvious that students do spend maybe a little too much time on their phones during the day but is a ban really going to stop them? The only way to really stop a student from using their cell phone is to take it away but even then there are times where the student may tell the teacher that they don’t have the phone on them. New York City schools have put a strict ban on cellphones in their school and is even taking it to the extreme of confiscating it at the door via metal detectors. According to Greg Graham from mediashift.org (2011), “ New York schools are not unique. School systems everywhere are outlawing cell phones, but students are undeterred. In a recent survey (PDF)by Pew Internet, 65 percent of students admit bringing phones to class even though they are banned. They put them in their socks, their underwear, their sandwiches, whatever it takes. Fifty-eight percent of the students in those same schools admit sending a text message during class.” (para. 9). Even though the New York school system banned cellphones and enforced it by metal detectors, students found ways to sneak it into the school and use

8) Also, Gregory references, “Dr. Lesiuk’s research focuses on how music affects workplace performance. In one study involving information technology specialists, she found that those who listened to music completed their tasks more quickly and came up with better ideas than those who didn’t, because the music improved their mood.” (para. 11) which shows that research proves it to be beneficial to listen to music while working to improve mood, which improves