Is Cell phone a necessity at school ?

Is cell phone a necessity at school? The question of whether cell phones should be allowed in schools has been hotly debated over the years. Most school administrations regard cell phone use as disruptive and distracting, and have implemented policies that prohibit using them on school grounds. In fact, the real decision regarding cell phones lies with parents. So, should parents allow their children to bring cell phones to school? In my opinion, parents should not allow their children to bring their cell phones to school.

The reason I do not agree that parents should allow their children to bring cell phones to school is children will not pay attention while teacher is teaching. Children may be texting, capturing photos, playing games or listening to music instead of focusing on their homework or paying attention to teachers. This may affect their studies at school. Parents are also concerned about their children will use their cell phones to cheat at school. Children will save all the information or answers in their phones, so that they can copy from it. They may also send the answer through text message to their friends while having an examination. 

Moreover, students’ cell phones maybe stolen from their friends or lost easily. This is because some students like to show off. They show their latest cell phones such as Iphone 4S and blackberry to their friends. Some students may get jealous and want to have ones too. As they are come from poor family, so, the only method to get a latest cell phone is steal from students. We have seen a lot of cases of stolen phones happened at school. Students may lost their phone easily at school. This is because they are playing with their friends and never realised that they have dropped their phone at somewhere else.

Parents are also worried about the health threats of cell phones on children. Cell phone may produce radiation which is harmful. The radiation of cell phone is harmful to us especially children who below sixteen years old as their brains are too sensitive to bear the radiation effects. Tissue in the brain and body are still developing and radiation may result to cell damage resulting to several health issues. So, parents should avoid children to face cell phones when there is unnecessary to use a cell phone such as while children is at school. However, for adults, long term and heavy use of cell phones also need to be conducted.

            In a nutshell, some parents may allow their children to bring phones to school because they want to know about the safety of their children at school and the position of their children after school. However, parents can just ask them to use public phones to contact each other if there is any emergency. Most of all, there is unnecessary for students to bring their phones to school.

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Lim Whey Teen