Persuasive Essay on Should Students Be Allowed To Use Phones In School

📌Category: Education, Mobile Phones, School, Science, Technology
📌Words: 652
📌Pages: 3
📌Published: 13 February 2022

How would you feel if one day you got to work and opened your email to find out that the school board does not want the school staff to use personal devices until they leave school grounds? Well, that is how students felt when they heard your phone ban policy through the school speakers. The student code of conduct allows students to use cell phones. Phones can also be very helpful in many ways. But if communication devices are being used inappropriately then they should be taken away from that person. The phone ban policy should not exist.

The “Student code of conduct” allows students to use mobile devices during school. “Wireless communication devices include two-way communication devices, such as cellular phones, mobile phones, MP3 players, electronic games, beepers, pagers, portable computers including but not limited to laptops, personal digital assistances (PDA), tablets, eReaders, iPads, personal organizers and similar wireless devices. Possessing a wireless communication device is not a violation of the Code of Student Conduct” (“Code of student conduct” page 39). This states that using our phones in school is allowed. “Students may only possess, display and use wireless communication devices (i.e. texting, email, telephone, etc.) before or after the instructional day” (“Code of student conduct” page 40). This explains that phones can be used before and after school but on your new phone ban policy it states students are not to use their cell phones before or after school. According to the “Code of student conduct” we should be allowed to use our phones before and after school without being penalized. 

Students can use wireless devices in an productive way. According to www.oxfordlearning.com “Cell phones give students access to tools and apps that can help them complete and stay on top of their class work. These tools can also teach students to develop better study habits, like time management and organization skills.” This explains that besides texting students can also be using their phones in productive ways. At school students also need the phones to sign out to go to the bathroom a rule made by the principal and the school. An example is that students are getting in trouble for using their phone to sign out to go to the bathroom because in some places in the school there is no internet meaning students must walk around to find a Wi-Fi spot and some are getting in trouble.

Students that use their cell phones inappropriately should be penalized. Students shall avoid classroom disruptions, by not displaying, using, or activating the data access portion of their wireless communication devices during the instructional day unless instructed to do so by the teacher and/or authorized school personnel under the Bring Your Own Device initiative outlined in Board Policy 7540.03. This includes during class, in the library, during lunch breaks, during class changes, and during any other structured activity. Unless using its data access capabilities for instructional purposes as directed by their teacher and/or authorized school personnel as outlined in Board Policy 7540.03” (“code of student conduct’’ page 40). This states that students are mot allowed to use their mobile devices during class time, in the hallway, or in lunch unless instructed to by a teacher. “The possession of a cellular telephone is not a violation of the Code of Student Conduct. However, the possession of a cellular telephone that disrupts the educational process, the use of the cellular telephone capabilities during school hours, use of a cellular phone to commit a crime, and the possession or use of a cellular telephone that disrupts or interferes with the safety-to-life issue for students being transported on a Miami-Dade County Public Schools bus, are infractions of the Code of Student Conduct” (“code of student conduct” page 40). This explains if phones are being used inappropriately then it is a violation to the ”Code of Student Conduct”. 

In conclusion, the phone ban policy should not exist. Student code of conduct allows students to use cell phones. Phones can also be very helpful in many ways. But if communication devices are being used inappropriately then they should be taken away from that person. What would you d if you found out students were getting yelled at for doing what you instructed them to do?  

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