Most students today come to school with a cellphone there are many reasons why kids carry a cellphone Students use their phones to contact their parent(s) family members to download apps.
Parents give us phones because it allows us to communicate with each other, family members, to see where they are, to make sure they’re ok.
Nowadays students use their phones because they are bored and there are a lot of resources that are useful. Kids sleep, eat, walk, talk, and shower with their phones, do homework, and do class work on their phones.
If you walk onto school campus, kids will have their phones visibly out, and they are visible in the classroom as many students choose to use their cellphones to do work instead of the district iPad or Chromebook. Some students are off task in the classroom when on their cellphones and this new policy could help stop that, or maybe not?
According to the Governor’s article on smartphones He states “that the cell phone ban is because excessive smartphone uses increases anxiety, depressions, and other mental health issues. But basically, by having this new law it is meant to help students focus on schoolwork, helps social development and increases students talking in the classroom to each other increasing socialization skills.
Hawkins has to enforce this new state policy as well, and the policy here at Hawkins is that we are not on our cellphones in class, but we can use them at lunch. I interviewed staff and students, and they believe that we should all honor the cell phone policy by not being on our phones during school time.
When I interviewed a junior here at Hawkins they indicated that the kids need their cellphones, and it would be hard to give up my cellphone to the school. Additionally, the student mentioned that many teachers have links in Schoology that they can only access using their cell phone because their iPad can’t open the links because they are blocked. So, some teachers let us get on our cellphones and some don’t allow it. Whereas Assistant Principal Ms. Anderson believes that our policy should be consistent on campus, and everyone should follow the rules.
Because we are now all learning digitally, the cell phone policy may be difficult to follow and enforce because of the limitations teachers and students have on their devices. Yet, we are denied and restricted from learning sites that teachers are not aware of as students on devices in the classroom which causes us to use our cellphones once again. Cellphones are a need, and we do need to respect the policy, but this may prove more challenging than we think.
