There are many types of dangers in the world where students can get hurt or even end up dead. That’s why they should be allowed in school. They should be allowed in school for numerous reasons. Such reasons are because they can be really useful with the right set of rules applied to them.
Cell phones can be used times of distress or emergency. They can be used in emergencies because students can report incidents when they occur. In 2008, there were 5.8 million and more police reports of traffic crashes in which 37,261 people were killed and 2.3 million injured the United States. Also students can record the incident to show to a teacher or adult. One incident that could of be recorded is when a 25 year old teacher, Mark Allen Hyzer abused a 15 year old boy in Irvington, Maryland. Hyzer touch and said inappropriate things to the boy.
Cell phones can be used to do school work/assignments. Students can use phones for tools such as calculators to do math work. Students at the New York Hall of Science used smart phones to test the air around them for carbon dioxide and other substances. They did that by downloading applications on their phones. Also students can their phones for reminders of upcoming assignments due. They can do that by setting events or due dates on their cellular device’s calendars. In Scottsdale, Arizona the students of Chaparral High School use their cell phones to do class work. They use the web to research physics and human anatomy. The vice principal and teachers say now all their students are increasing their grades and knowledge.
Parents can keep track of their child whereabouts. If schools allowed cell phones, parents will know if their children skip or be late for school. For example there is an application for android phones called Life 360. The app Life 360 allows you to add family members with an account to your family tree. Also it shows you registered criminals that live in areas around you that have been in prison before. Also if the students leave their phones places they can trace who ever steals the object. For example sad parents of a seventeen year old girl named Chelsea King found her missing car by tracing her cell phones which was under the back seat of the vehicle.
Allowing cellphones in school can really help students and the community.so many incidents that happened in school every year could’ve been prevented. Incidents from teachers abusing students to emergencies could be brought to justice sooner than later. I say this because thousands of incidents happen every year before school, during school or after school to students, which could have been prevented if they were allowed to take their phones to school.
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ReplyDeleteRemember, this is for Journalism class, so you need to touch on something that is happening in the news. The easiest way to do this is to talk about an article that you found online or in a newspaper.
This looks like something you wrote for Cohen's class.