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This document discusses the debate around allowing cell phones in schools. It presents perspectives on both the pros and cons, survey data showing growing support for cell phone use among parents and students, examples of school cell phone policies, and how safety concerns following school shootings have influenced the debate. The timeline highlights how policy changes have fueled a national discussion weighing the potential benefits of phones against disruptions to learning. In the end, it poses the open question of whether phones should be permitted in schools as the debate continues.

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This document discusses the debate around allowing cell phones in schools. It presents perspectives on both the pros and cons, survey data showing growing support for cell phone use among parents and students, examples of school cell phone policies, and how safety concerns following school shootings have influenced the debate. The timeline highlights how policy changes have fueled a national discussion weighing the potential benefits of phones against disruptions to learning. In the end, it poses the open question of whether phones should be permitted in schools as the debate continues.

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By: Grisselda Moreno

Cartoon # 20

Roster #19
Cartoon # 20
My Initial Thoughts…

– Should phones be allowed in schools? Yes? No?


– Cell phones in Day Care!
– Age of technology!
– Cell phones are now a part of everyday school?
– Are cell phones in school the norm?

Should phones be allowed in school?


Perspective’s
Pros Cons

1. Cell phones offer families added 1. Cell phones open the possibility of
convenience with communication cyberbullying
2. Students have access to more 2. It changes how kids perceive life when
information thanks to cell phones they have a cell phone
3. Cell phones offer video learning access to 3. The use of a cell phone can be addicting
the classroom to some students
4. Cell phones create opportunities for 4. Children gain access to questionable
social learning content on cell phones
5. It facilitates an individualized learning 5. Cell phones in the classroom may
process encourage cheating

- Connect US
- YouTube: A Current Affair
Survey:
Out of 1,100 parents with school aged children who
allow cell phone usage

– 55% agree that "a cell phone is a vital Cell Phone Usage in Schools
80
device for a child to have when not in
the presence of an adult" 70 72%
– 84% of parents feel that banning cell 60

phones from school property is 50


unacceptable 40 53%
– Advocates suggest cell phones can 30
offer educational benefits: calculator
20
functions, foreign-language 23%
dictionaries, and access and digital 10

photo or video (potential value on 0


field trips) % Percent of Students

Elementary Middle High


- Wireless News
Cell Phone Ban:
In Public School Districts…

– Educators concerns are cell phones will State All Out Ban Ban Lifted
distract students & disrupt the learning
process New York 2005 2015
– Educators are pushing schools to regulate or
even completely ban the use of cell phones in
schools
State All Out Ban Confiscation
– Many opponents of cell phones in school
support limiting their use rather than banning Nevada Not Permitted Permitted
them outright
– Many schools require that students turn off
phones during class or turn them over to a
teacher at the beginning of each class or exam
and reclaim them at the end
- Points of View
Timeline:
Growing Support of Cell Phones in School

• Columbine
1999 High School – Many schools have eased restrictions on
Shooting
cell phone use in middle and high schools

2001 • New York – Policy changes have fueled a national


9/11
debate over whether the safety benefits
• Virginia of cell phones outweighed their potential
2007 Tech
Shooting to create a nuisance that would interfere
with learning
• Sandy
2012 Hook
Shooting
– 99% of parents want students to be able
to call or be called in case of an
• Stoneman
emergency
2018 Douglas
Shooting
- Points of View
The Debate
Continues…

Should phones be allowed in school?


Work Cited

– Ballaro, Beverly, and Jill Ginsburg. “Cell Phones in School: An Overview.” Points
of View: Cell Phones in School, Jan. 2017, p. 1. EBSCOhost,
search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=pwh&AN=23463509.
– Grimshaw, Tracy. “Should phones be banned in schools.” YouTube, uploaded by
A Current Affair, 25 April 2019, https://youtu.be/QYOWeBcwn9E.
– "Survey: Strong Support for Policy that Limits Cell Phone Usage in Schools."
Wireless News (2005): 1. ProQuest. 2 Nov. 2019 .
– “18 Cell Phones in the Classroom Pros and Cons.” Edited by Editor in Chief,
ConnectUS, ConnectUSFund, 16 Dec. 2018, https://connectusfund.org/18-cell-
phones-in-the-classroom-pros-and-cons.

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