Should Pagers and Cell Phones be Allowed in High Schools

There are many reasons why the school district thinks pagers and cell phones should not be allowed in any of the schools in Philadelphia. To me no matter what the rules are teens are still going to bring them to school regardless. The teens know the consequences of bringing a cell phone or a pager to school. They know that it will get taken and not returned. If you think about that at first you will think why would they insist on still bringing it to school when they know it will be taken from them and then it will be a waste of money because now you just lost you phone for good. Some people just feel better with their cell phone.

In my old school I use to take my cell phone to school everyday even though they told us we were not allowed to, many of us did. They even took it twice in the same year. They took it when they saw it in my backpack. I was not even using it. Even though the it said that if your cell phone or pager were to be take

STUDENT COMMENT: "I think we should be able to have them. I see how they don’t want us to have them on so they don’t go off in class. But I think it’s important that we have them."

Now maybe by next year the school district will start focusing on more important topics then this little one.

A recent survey found that 32 percent of children ages 10 to 19 now use cell phones. That’s up from just 25 percent last year. By next year, researchers predict that more than half of all young people and adults in the country will have a cell phone. As wireless technology becomes more common, more states are expected to allow students to bring their phones to school.

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