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Monday, June 20, 2011

Debatable Topic- Cell Phones in Middle Schools

Okay so I am a kid. I LOVE my cell phone. I wanted to talk about having cell phones in school and all of the benefits of it. Cell phones are important to today’s society. 84%of students ages 11-15 have one. When you are in danger or need help you can dial 911, anywhere. When you need a ride from school you can call up your parents or friend to give you ride. When I started researching the topic, of Cell phones in school however, here’s what I found out.

Cell phones should not be allowed in middle schools.They have been seen to be disruptive in past years, with them ringing in class and people concentrating on their conversation instead of the lesson. Imagine, you are in class, trying to concentrate on a test and the person sitting next to you’s cell phone rings. You completely lost your train of thought.

Also tests could be cheated on. People could text their friends for answers to questions on exams or tests, or even take a picture of their quiz and send it through picture message and they could get answers back. With smart phones you have the ability to do “Hands Free” an app that you can talk to people and they can dictate the answers to you. Newer mobile devices have the internet, which is great, you can find out anything in the blink of an eye. But this is a set back to having them in school, you could easily cheat! Old and new mobile phones have calculators too, this should be a worry for all school who are allowing these devices in school, math tests would be a breeze, but it isn’t fair to others.





Students could take unwanted or inappropriate pictures of students and post them online and humiliate them. The internet again on cell phones is huge pictures could be updated from the cell phones camera to Facebook or MySpace. Cell phones could cause rumored violence or threats through cyber bullying. in recent years a girl killed herself because she was so nervous to go to school because she had been threatened to be beat up via text message on her cell phone.

Also new research is being done by Dr. Michael H. Repacholi, Occupational and Environmental Health, World Health Organization, that cell phones, the higher radiation they have, there are more chances of developing cancer. Michael H. Repacholi, Occupational and Environmental Health, World Health Organization.

So lastly, I just have to say that middle schools shouldn’t allow cell phones. Who wants brain cancer? Who wants to be interrupted during a test? Can’t you just use the school phone to make connections with your parents during emergencies? Cell phones are important you can’t deny that, but they are not appropriate for a learning environment.

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