Teachers oppose cell phones in school for several reasons: 1) Students spend too much time texting friends which impacts their ability to pay attention in class. 2) Cell phones make it easier for students to cheat by sharing answers via text or photos. 3) Cell phones are disruptive as students continue to use them to chat and play games even when policies prohibit their use. Banning cell phones helps decrease risks of drug trafficking, gang activity, bomb threats, and rumors that spread quickly through students' phones and cause disruption.
Teachers oppose cell phones in school for several reasons: 1) Students spend too much time texting friends which impacts their ability to pay attention in class. 2) Cell phones make it easier for students to cheat by sharing answers via text or photos. 3) Cell phones are disruptive as students continue to use them to chat and play games even when policies prohibit their use. Banning cell phones helps decrease risks of drug trafficking, gang activity, bomb threats, and rumors that spread quickly through students' phones and cause disruption.
Teachers oppose cell phones in school for several reasons: 1) Students spend too much time texting friends which impacts their ability to pay attention in class. 2) Cell phones make it easier for students to cheat by sharing answers via text or photos. 3) Cell phones are disruptive as students continue to use them to chat and play games even when policies prohibit their use. Banning cell phones helps decrease risks of drug trafficking, gang activity, bomb threats, and rumors that spread quickly through students' phones and cause disruption.
Teachers oppose cell phones in school for several reasons: 1) Students spend too much time texting friends which impacts their ability to pay attention in class. 2) Cell phones make it easier for students to cheat by sharing answers via text or photos. 3) Cell phones are disruptive as students continue to use them to chat and play games even when policies prohibit their use. Banning cell phones helps decrease risks of drug trafficking, gang activity, bomb threats, and rumors that spread quickly through students' phones and cause disruption.
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Educators Opposing Cell Phones
Teachers who oppose cell phones believe that students spend too much time texting their friends and that has an impact their ability to pay attention to the curriculum. According to Franz Prichard, an adjunct research associate of Clarity Innovations Inc., "Advanced phone technologies also increasingly challenge the methods of preventing students from cheating. Instant texts can share answers, camera-equipped phones can provide visuals on complicated problems and detailed voice messages can be exchanged between successive periods." School Bans Cell phones are considered a class disturbance. The disruptive method of talking to your friends through texting is a nuisance to educators who oppose cell phones use by students. Some school schools have created polices that prohibits use of cell phones by students at school. This, however, does not stop students from continuing to use their mobile phones to chat, play games and not pay attention during class. Cell Phones Boosting Illegal Activity Schools continue to revise their cell phone policies in order to protect both students and teachers. According to the National School Safety and Security Services, "Some schools banned pagers and cell phones starting a decade ago because of their connection to drug and gang activity, as well as due to the disruption to classes." Banning the use of cell phones helps decrease the risk of drug trafficking and gang-related conversation in schools. Student Cell Phones Wreaking Havoc Students have called in bomb threats to their schools using their cell phones in order to cause a disruption, spread fear and get out of class. Rumors also spread through cell phones which causes unneeded chaos among students and faculty. According to Ken Trump, president of National School Safety and Security Services, "The rumors typically become greater than the issue, problem or incident itself. Attendance can go down overnight, and rumors can fly in minutes."