The Phones Belong to the StudentsThe school faculty should not have the rights to take away cell phones from students. Students come in every day and work for the teachers, but if the slightest sound comes from a student’s pocket, their phone gets snatched away from them. Whether the sound is accidental or not, it does not matter to the the teachers. Not only does a student’s phone get taken away, it is kept from the students until their parent comes and picks it up for them. Teachers and faculty should not have the right to take phones away from students in school because the students pay for them, teachers take them away for unjustifiable reasons, and students often have outside of school activities to tend too.
Teachers and faculty actually expect the students to not use their phones, that the students and parents pay for with their hard-earned money. Why would the students pay for them and not be allowed to use them? When teachers take the phones from the students, the teachers are crossing a line. Those phones are not cheap, cost parents and students hundreds of dollars. Teachers are throwing away that money when they take the devices from the students. Not only that, but they are very useful tools for people to use in school. Phones contain calculators, statistics and many other diverse tools.They are taking the personal property from the students that some kids need in order to contact parents or other important people. Furthermore, teachers and faculty in schools take cell phones from students for inadequate reasons. The cell phones that students are carrying around are not weapons, but are treated almost the same. The faculty do not even want them on. The original reason for cell phones not being allowed to be used in class was because they were a distraction, but now they will take them even if it is not being used in a classroom. Students are not allowed to text their parents between classes or use their cell phone between that passing time. The phones are not distracting anyone from learning if they are not being used in a classroom. The fact that students cannot even let their cell phones be seen without them being taken is pretty upsetting considering that fact that parents cell phones often go off in class with no consequences. When a student's cell phone makes a noise, there is no hesitation in taking it, but when a teacher's phone goes off nothing happens. Sometimes teachers will even talk on the phone during classes. Students have some important activities or people to tend to besides school also, so students should have access to them if the teachers do. When teachers take phones so quickly, but their phones go off in class make them seem very hypocritical. Maybe teachers are just power hungry, being able to take the phones from the students must make them happy. Just because someone looks at their phone to possibly see the time or see if they have an important message, does not mean the student is being “distracted in the classroom.” Faculty need to ease up on the rules about phones because it should not be that big of a deal. It is a phone, the property of the student, a way to contact people, and not a weapon. Teachers need to stop being so power hungry about taking phones and to just stick to teaching their classes. The students pay for the phones, get them taken away for unjustifiable reasons, and have to deal with teachers being hypocritical; it is not the right of the teacher to take them away. |