In my opinion I strongly disagree that mobile phones should not be permitted at school. In 2012 a company named Pew Internet Project did research on teens; on the ages of teen owning mobile phones and found out that 78% of teens between the ages of 12-17 owned a mobile phone. Identifying that majority of teenagers today have a mobile phone and if given the opportunity would most likely take the mobile phone to school; by banning mobile phones from school will decrease the risk of distraction, cheating, cyber-bullying and social class status when the student is at school.
A significant problem that’s in counted with allowing the access of students bringing mobile phones to school is that it distracts them and perhaps others around them. For instance a key distraction mobile phones create for students is an easier way of communicating to others via text; this could be to somebody outside of school or even to somebody on the other side of the room and can be considered as a faster and new process of passing notes or answers on a test. An additional way the mobile phone can create a distraction, is when a student mobile phone goes off during class, disturbing the class and easily taking the attention off the lesson and causing giggles and laughs disrupting not
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In schools students can use mobile phones as a social status. Students whose parents who can’t afford to buy them a latest mobile phone can be belittled and fell out of place because they simply don’t have the latest gadget. The students with the latest phones will want to pull them out at school showing their new toy off and possibly causing another student to be jealous and perhaps steal it. By not allowing mobile phones in school this can possibly take away this social status with the latest technology and help the other student who are less fortunate to fit in a bit