PROMPT # 10 "Should SIS allow students to use the cell phones during the school day or not?"

           “Should SIS allow students to use the cellphones during the school day or not?” I DEFINITELY agree that students should be allowed to use their phones during the school days, but only if it is for a reason. OFCOURSE students should not be allowed to use their phones if they are going to text their friends, or play games but students should be allowed if they are going to call their parents for an emergency or if they want to order lunch from somewhere. Also, in some occasions for a lab at school, students are allowed to use their phones to take photos of their lab procedures, so why not just let the students be allowed to use their phones for a good use.

            Now students are not allowed to use the office phone to call restaurants to order their lunch. I heard that it was because that went over the school lunch system and that if students kept using the office phone (school property) then they would stop serving the 75 cent lunches. ANYWAYS so this could be a good reason that students should be allowed to use their phones because if they had forgotten to order the day before or in the morning, they could just text the restaurant or call the restaurant to tell them that they want to order. That would only take about three minutes max and then the students could just put their phone away. If students at SIS were to do that at school right now, when the approval of cellphone use has not been passed, they would get their phones taken away  and would have to get it by the end of the week. The person would also get a detention and have to talk to Dr. Jenkins (Our headmaster) to get our phone back. This would decrease the work that the teachers have to do if they catch someone using their phones and the students would not have to disrupt the headmaster to get their phones back. This is only in the case if the student uses the phone for this specific reason, if the student has used the phone to text their friends or other purposes then the consequences should be valid.

            Another reason students should be allowed to use their phones is if their parents need them and if it is urgent. People do not think that kind of cases would happen that often, but it is something that could happen and has a fair percentage that it might happen, even at rare occasions. I am not saying that the students should be allowed to use their phones during class while the teacher is talking, or could text whenever they want to and listen to music during the break. I am only saying that the student should be able to use their phone only if they are going to call their parents, if an emergency call comes they could ask the teacher to be excused from class to pick it up, they could order food from various restaurants if they had forgotten to, they could use their phone to take pictures of school projects, they could call their parents if they do not feel well and want to go home, and they could leave their parents a message if they had forgotten something important at home. Those are only the reasons when a student should be able to use their phones at school. If a student is caught using their phone for any other reason, then that student should be forbidden to use their phones at school, but all of the other students should be allowed.