By Robin Kettles At East High School we have a major problem with the amount of usage with students’ cell phones. Last year East High School a new cell phone policy to try and stop cell phone usage in the classrooms. According to this policy, the school will have a red zone and green zone. When students are inside of a classroom and it’s a red zone it means you cannot be on your phone at all during the class period. If the classroom is on green zone then students can be on their phones but the problem is that students do not go by these rules. If students do not follow the cell phone policy there will be consequences. These consequences go in steps. Step 1 is a verbal warning and if that doesn’t work than you go to step 2 which is confiscation by the period just for one period, and if that still doesn’t work then step 3 which is confiscation of the whole day. If a student still refuses to be responsible with his or her phone, it’s still a confiscation and parent or guardian must come and pick up the cell phone from the school and the student might have detention with an administrator. Students being on their phone in school is taking away from learning and education which doesn’t make any sense because you won’t be able to take in everything your teacher is teaching because you don’t know how to get off of your phone. The other problem is when a teacher asks a student to get off of their phone the student will ignore the teacher and continue doing what they are doing on their phone and won’t get their education. Also, while the teacher is telling a student to get off of their phone in the middle of class it’s taking away from everybody else learning and education because of one student who doesn’t know how to stay off of their phone. If students can use their phones responsibly, then everyone learns more and the school won’t have to take more drastic measures like taking everyone’s phones when they enter the building, like they do in many schools. So students, if you want to have your cell phone for the day, keep it silent and invisible in class.
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