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Should Cell Phones Be Allowed in School? Picture this, it’s a regular day of school you sit down at your desk at about 9:30 a.m. and all of the sudden you hear gunshots! You are rushed into the bathrooms and closets by staff members. You wait, hoping nothing will happen to you. You hear screams and more loud noises. You wonder “what’s happening.” Your heart skips a beat as the door opens and a police officer confirms your worst fears. Many people are dead. This is the scene from Sandy Hook Elementary School on December 14th, 2012, the day of the shooting. This and other incidents like this are why many schools are lifting the ban on cellphones in school. One of the students at Sandy Hook could have called the police when they saw the gunman coming, if they had a phone with them. This is one of the many …show more content…

Kids can call the authorities if they see something that shouldn’t be happening. Just like the situation which happened at Sandy Hook Elementary. They could also call an ambulance if someone got cut and was bleeding. Whitney Young Principal Dr. Joyce D. Kenner said "I think (a cellphone) could be an educational tool and it could be a safety tool” (Rossi 8). Parents could also contact their kids to update them if there was a change of plans. Bill Di Blasio, mayor of New York City, answered when asked about the prohibition of cell phones, “the prohibition was out of touch with the realities of modern child-rearing, and parents have a right to reach their children by phone” (Brody and Sharp A13). An example of parents updating their kids is when my friends mom came to pick him up. The original plan was to walk home, but throughout the day the temperature dropped. By the end of school the weather was frigid. His mom texted him in class, and he didn’t have to walk home in the cold. If allowing students to have phones in class can make schools safer, we should do

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The Sandy Hook Elementary school shooting was one that shocked the nation and opened the eyes of Americans everywhere. This horrible event opened up our eyes to the fact that someone could easily come into a school and raise havoc with ease. This man, Adam Lanza, had no affiliation with Sandy Hook or any one inside it but still decided to take the lives of 20 children and 6 adults before taking his own. In the statements made by Joe Scarborough from his show “Morning Joe”, he says “Every American must know from this day forward that nothing can be the same again.” This is a very powerful statement because it brings up an important point.

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I had never seen anything like this before. I was 12 and never thought that a shooting could happen in a school environment. Sadly, 12 year olds today probably would not be as shocked as I was when I saw the images on CNN and frantically called my parents. Watching the coverage of this massacre all day, I was completely appalled that the shooter was mental ill and on a wait list for a mental hospital. The thought that there was a large wait for mental ill patients to get help was

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The morning of December 14, 2012 would not be a typical one of the inhabitants of Newtown, a small tight-knit town in Fairfield County, Connecticut. At approximately 9:30 AM, shortly after the beginning of the school day, Adam Lanza, a deranged, violent man, armed with a rifle, two hand guns, a shotgun, and a plethora of extra ammunition, forcefully entered Sandy Hook Elementary School and commenced a shooting rampage that would eventually take the lives of twenty innocent first graders, along with six faculty members who heroically sacrificed their lives protecting their students. This heart wrenching tragedy sent a Shockwave throughout America, as people were struggling to determine what they could do to prevent something so horrific from

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Sandy Hook Shooting On December 14, 2012 the most horrific school shooting happened. A young man took the lives of innocent children and adults. No one knew what was ahead of them that Friday morning as they woke up and went on with their daily routine. Adam Lanza took the lives of 26 people.

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To end the violence, metal detectors should be placed in every public school across America to ensure the safety of the school 's students and staff. Public schools in America have been challenged a lot in the past few years. They have been constantly questioned due to recent school shootings. The most recent tragedy occurred where “seventeen people [were] killed by a gunman [on February 14, 2018] at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida” (Levenson and Sterling).

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The rivalry between students who believe they should be able to use their cell phones in class and teachers who believe them to be disrespectful has caused a ripple effect that now bleeds through many classrooms roaring its controversial head. And here we are stuck in an ongoing battle seldom won by students. The position that students should not be able to misuse their cell phones in a classroom setting is one held by the author of “Today 's Lesson: Life in the Classroom Before Cellphones” Louise Katz, who believes that “those halcyon days” were over (Katz). Likewise, Zoya Kahn, the author of “Why Cell Phones Do Not Belong In The Classroom” has a similar stance on the topic, Kahn states that “it is in everyone’s interest for instructors to

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Many things don’t go vigorous or as planned because phones constantly go off during class. Another reason, phones should be prohibited at school is that they are extremely harmful and dangerous. The Environmental Protection Agency says, “... Can be disguised as a gun and used to look up harmful websites.’’ This leads to a

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What parents nowadays don 't get worried about their child when they are locked in the school with something bad going on around them? If the kids were allowed the use of their phone during school they could text their parents to let them know they are safe. Not only can they use it to text their parents, but teachers or the students can also get ahold of the police, firefighters, etc. However, If a student has her of his ringer on while the threat walks past the room that they are locked up in they it could put them in more danger and there would be a bigger chance of them getting found. In order to stop that from happening the teachers would have to be in charge of making sure all the kids phone’s sound was off when they first hear the bells.

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Could Phones in Class Be the Key to Learning Seeing a kid in class with their phone out, your first instinct will be telling them to put it away. Although cell phones can be a distraction and used for entertainment purposes they could be used for so much more. Phones should be allowed in classrooms to use as a learning tool, it will help students organize their work, and is cheaper than buying more technology. As you may know, schools are strict on their no phones in class rule.

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The child doesn't need a cell phone; the school has one in almost every room. We are preparing for the students to a better life. If parents prepare their children for their future after school, the parents should allow the children to use good tools for the children so that they have a better life after school. By the time, their children enter to their professions; time comes that they need to use even more mobile

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If there's a fire, shooting, lockdown, bomb threat, you want to ensure your safety by calling 911 or even your parents. Most of the times these are just drills, but what if one day it is not. Also if your parents need to contact you. Like for example, if there is a death in your family and then need to reach you quickly, then that phone will be a big help. Another emergency, that can happen that you would need your phone, is that if your at school and you are ready for any kind of sports practice and suddenly it is cancelled, and you find out before school ends, and you need to contact your parent.

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I think that cellphones should not be in schools because students could use them inappropriately because students could get better test scores and because they could get distracted while using them. One reason cell phones should be banned at school is because they could start doing things inappropriately.

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Cell Phones In Schools Despite the fact that cell phones may be used for educational purposes, phones should still be banned from schools due to texting and posting, cyberbullying, and a use for non - educational purposes. As a student, I am faced with the problem, “No Cell Phones in Classrooms”. Many students like to bring their cellphones in class. The one problem however is, “What are you doing with your phone?”

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Argumentative topics : school children should be allowed to bring mobile phone to schools 1. Introduction A. Hook/Attention getter: As the time flies, technology play the main role in our life, where the world is getting smaller, mobile phone is on everybody’s lip more than MacDonald and Kentucky’s Fried Chicken. Mobile phone becomes indispensable gadget, an absolute necessity for both adult and children. Aware of the essential of mobile phone in life, people starts question whether it should be allowed in school or not and this issue has been hotly debated over the year.

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Many parents highly consider getting their children cell phones, but it is not always an easy choice. There are many things that getting children their own cell phones involve, there could be upcoming consequences and bills. There have been numerous debates that are centered around the question: should children have cell phones or not? Of course, children should certainly be able to have cell phones on them at all times, and here are the reasons proving this statement. First, one major reason that children should have cell phones is the fact that it is so convenient and practical for the children and their parents or guardians.

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