why do the schools ban cell phones???

Question

if there is an emergency like if there was a school shooting or a bomb threat, the schools are put on lockdown, and no messages in or out! so if your a parent and you want to know if your child is OK how are you going to contact them??? the schools are gonna have all the parents calling to see if they're child is OK, right? well if all the schools parents start calling, how is everyone gonna be able to talk to thier child??? if there child has a cell phone, the parents would have a lifeline to their child! and what if a child gets into a strangers car who said they knew there parents? the child would be in danger!!!!!! and with a cell phone the child could call for help!!!!!! so i sugest you MAKE your child take there phone to school!! thats what my mom does!

Answer 1

Hmmmmm. Is it against the rules to TAKE your cell phone to school? I think not. I think it is only against the rules to USE your cell phone at school.

Once you are in the stranger's car - you are no longer at school. So you can use your phone. And just for the record - you and your parents should come up with a password that only the two of you know. If she can't contact you and needs somebody else to pick you up - she just gives them the password. Otherwise you never get in anybody's car - 'cause that's just stupid.

And if there is a shooting or whatever - NOBODY is going to give you detention for using your phone to call your parents. I promise.

Answer 2

Cell phones are banned in most public schools because they can and have interrupted the learning process. Instead of doing homework in study hall they are texting their friends and playing games on the phones. Sometimes the phones even go off in school. While I think students should have a way of reaching people when they need to, I don't think every student is responsible enough to carry a phone to school.

Answer 3

Well schools ban them because children aren't being considerate.
These cell phones are ringing during class, kids are getting text messages during class and this causes the student to not be paying attention 100 percent.
Cell phones can be carried in most schools but must be turned off during class time.
Also they are being used for drug deals inside the schools.

I notice you stated emergency use, well if you needed to contact your child its simple you call the school and within a matter of a minute your child would be contacted via office and vice verse goes for your child.

This is the problem with society today, people don't want to realise that School is not for Social hour its for Education and unless science class was teaching students how to rebuild their cell phones or beepers theirs no need for them.

Answer 4

This day and age, kids are way more advanced on cell phones than the adults. Kids can type text messages without even looking and teachers have no clue. Too many are cheating on test. They are also a distraction. Some school have the policy that all phones must be turned off in the building and they have to remain out of sight.

Answer 5

It should be obvious why they ban cell phones. If they allowed phones then 99% of the time they will be used to direct the minds away from education. The amount of schools compared to the amount of school shooting is in no way a form to fight against a no cell phone policy.

Answer 6

I really do agree with you in the main...but as a teacher they are a nightmare......in my daughters HS they ban them and remove them if seen............I actually challenged this as the very same school will NOT take a message regardless of the situation, now as I work 45 mins from her school and her dad was at sea at the time...I told the school that they could stuff it IF they wont take a message then how on earth am I meant to let her know I am running late and STAY right where you are unless she has her own phone.............just glad she is out of the school. so that's a mums side of things.

Teachers side it is a royal pain in the butt and OFTEN they are used to cheat or set up drug deals etc............and I swear if a child EVER puts his hand up to me when in my class cos he is on the phone telling me to wait till he has finished his call, I would do him some serious harm.

Answer 7

Schools have had to ban them because kids tend to pay more attention to the cell phone than class.

Answer 8

My daughter is able to bring hers to school but it has to stay in her locker or purse and it HAS to be off. If I find out she used it in school (other than contacting me in an emergency), it would be taken away from her. She knows the consequences so therefore she listens.

As far as other schools banning them, teachers have complained of interruptions in the classroom. These kids are in school to learn, not play with their cellphones. Unfortunately, the good suffer for the bad thanks to the bad kids and political correctness.

Why political correctness? Instead of punishing the ones causing the problems, they punish all and that is making others pay for others' lack of responsibility.

Answer 9

I didn't realize that cell phones are completely banned. When I was in high school, we were allowed to have cell phones and pagers, so long as they didn't go off during class.

Answer 10

Because is a lot more texting, calling, IM'ing, photo swapping, and just plain old tom foolery going on. Having them turned off would be one thing, but the kids keep working to get around this with high pitched ringers and such. The parents can call the office like they did in the good old days.