By Aryana St. Marthe Why are certain students trusted with their phones and others are aren’t? Why can suburban school students have their phones but urban school students can’t? What is the difference between the students in suburban schools and urban schools? These are three questions I want answers to. Phones are being taken from urban school students more frequently than suburban school students. I want to know the difference between urban school students and suburban school students because there is a reason why suburban students are more trusted with their phones than urban students. When I asked Principal Blocker questions about the decisions to take phones at East, she said, “Phones were taken because they were being used during class, being used to set up fights, being used to record fights, and not helping the educational environment. We tried first to give scholars a chance to use self-control and to do Red Zone and Green Zone where kids had full control, but even that didn’t work so we went to collect them.” After reading this I could completely understand why because I’ve seen it happen many times but I want to know what happens in suburban schools. Do they not fight? Do the phones start it? Do they know how to act with their phones? This may be an indicator of a much larger issue in schools.
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Lynn Girven
10/31/2021 01:00:51 pm
I understand your concerns about equity. However, as a teacher, I know that cell phone use is not respected by many of your peers, and hence the restriction. I have tried and tried, however I spend way too much time policing cell phone use when scholars have them. I am not saying that you would not respect the regulations, but so many do not, and it is easier to teach all of you without the distrations. You did make many good arguments, however. Want to join the debate team?
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