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Cell Phones
Disruptive of School Environment
School
disruptions can come in a number of forms. Ringing
cell phones can disrupt classes and distract
students who should be
paying attention
to their lessons at hand. Text message has been
used for cheating. And new cell phones with
cameras could be
used to take photos of
exams, take pictures of students changing clothes
in gym locker areas, and so on
Cell Phones in School Create Less Safe
School Emergency Response
In terms of
school safety, cell phones have been used by
students in a number of cases nationwide for
calling in bomb threats to
schools. In
far too many cases, these threats have been
difficult or impossible to trace since they have
been made by cell phones.
The use of
cell phones by students during a bomb threat, and
specifically in the presence of an actual
explosive device, also
presents a
greater risk for potentially detonating the device
as public safety officials typically advise school
officials not to use cell
phones, two-
way radios, or similar communications devices
during such threats.
Additionally,
experience in crisis management has shown us that
regular school telephone systems become overloaded
with calls in
times of a crisis. While
we do recommend cell phones for school
administrators and crisis team members as a crisis
management
resource tool, it is highly
probable that hundreds (if not thousands) of
students rushing to use their cell phones in a
crisis would also
overload the cell
phone system and render it useless. Therefore the
use of cell phones by students could conceivably
decrease, not
increase, school safety
during a crisis.
Cell
Phones and Text Messaging in Schools Contribute to
School Rumors and Fear
We also track
more and more school incidents across the nation
where rumors have disrupted schools and have even
resulted in
decreased attendance due to
fears of rumored violence. The issues of text
messaging in particular, and cell phones in
general, were
credited with sometimes
creating more anxiety and panic than any actual
threats or incidents that may have triggered the
rumors.
Security
Services.
rumors
typically
become
greater
than
the
issue,
problem,
or
incident
itself.
Attendance
can
go
down
overnight and rumors can fly in
minutes,
TOP NO
I
am an elementary teacher, and the answer to
whether or not
cell phones
should be used in school is a
simple
one for me.
At this level, it is
difficult to see a place for them.
With the integration of technology
into curriculum being a gradual
initiative in my building, we are not anywhere
near using
cell phones
to
enhance our lessons.
Many
of my students do not even have cell phones let
alone ones that would enable
them to
research topics or connect with others.
The pros and cons are out there, but
for me, the
drawbacks outweigh the
benefits.
According to Family
Education, a valid list of cons is presented:
?Students often forget to turn off
their phones in class, and ringing noises or
text
-message alerts disrupt
learning.
?Even if set to
silent, cell phone
s can still cause
distraction, since text messaging has become a
high-tech
method of passing notes in
school.
?Students have been known to
use cell phones to call in bomb threats to
schools, to avoid or condense
class
time.
?In the event of a
widespread
crisis, rampant
cell phone
use can overload
communication systems and
render them
inoperable.
?Student
cell
phone
networks add to the spread of
rumors and misinformation, which can be harmful
during a widespread crisis.
?Phones can be used as cheating devices
during exams.
?The
long
-term physical effects of cell
phone use are still undetermined.
My
thoughts on the list of cons are as follows:
?Just the other day, I had a student in
my class whose cell phone went off.
It not only took 5 minutes to
find the cell phone, but another chunk
of time was spent trying to redirect the students
and to try to get
back to the focus of
the lesson.
?The use of cell phones to
pass notes is simply a hindrance to
learning.
Students are not
engaged in the
lesson, and are showing
disrespect to the teacher. By allowing students to
have/use cell phones in the
school
setting, we are in a sense making it easier to
participate in these immature, serious actions.
?You may say that students would just
find another way to make threats if cell phones
were banned, but
why make it readily
available to them? For this reason alone, our
students’ safety is on
the line.
Why take
the risk?
?The issue of cyber bullying and
sexting are becoming more and more prevalent even
in our fifth and sixth
grade building.
Many behavior
problems stem
from text messages that have been sent back and
forth and then forwarded to other
students.
It is already an
awkward enough age without having to worry about
who is saying what about
you let alone
texting about you.
?Although it would
be difficult for the age group of students that I
teach to use their personal cell phones
for cheating, this could be a problem
at the middle and high school levels.
?According to the National Cancer
Institute, the radiofrequency energy which is a
form of radiation may be
causing brain
tumors and forms of cancer.
Research
is still being conducted, but the risk is there.
Even at the young age of my fifth
graders, we have dealt with inappropriate text
messaging and even drug
deals/requests
being made through texting.
It saddens
me that these events are occurring among 10 and
11 year olds.
It seems as
though cell phones make these tragedies even
easier.
Students think that no
one will read their texts and that they
can get away with being inappropriate.
With the attention span of students
today dwindling at such a rapid pace, adding cell
phones into the
everyday happenings of
a school day just adds another opportunity to take
away from those teachable
moments.
My students easily loose focus and
their attention is quickly given to the slightest
interruption
or noise.
Without the availability of cell
phones, I feel that as a teacher I can have the
undivided attention
of my students.
Of course the districts could allow
cell phone usage along with guidelines, rules and
expectations, but there
will always be
those students that want to push the line as far
as they can.
As the old
adage goes, “if you