Normally I just lurk in the Asylum for entertainment, but this is just too amusing to pass up.
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Well if you're preventing students from using the most efficient educational tools they may have access to, isn't that an admission that schools are hindering the education of students?
Because cell phones are essential to cultivating learning, I know. The only thing they are more efficient at being in the classroom is distracting and cheating.
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Is that not basis upon which to ban the public school system, or any administrators they may enforce cell phone bans?
No. It actually detracts from learning, since it is a distraction. Which is better for learning: a student taking notes, or a student texting, calling, and taking videos on their phone?
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But do tell the basis upon which students can be prevented from recording whatever they want to with their own personal property and it's an easy slippery slope to applying those same basises to the Press.
The school can make up it's own rules about talking in class and badmouthing a teacher; they can certainly ban the use of phones in class. And what does not allowing cell phones during class have to do with freedom of the press? You're taking an issue that is decided privately by each school and applying it like it's a government restriction on national entities, which is absurd.
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Cell phones are multi-functional, and may be the only means by which some now know what time it is (read a WSJ article about watch makers complaining about generational changes hindering their business with the youth market). Isn't that a distraction every time someone looks at their watch or any of the many school clocks? Cell phones can now even be worn as watches. Why not ban even those old electronic device wrist watches by which students tell time?
You can keep a phone in your pocket or bookbag and glance at it when you need the time, provided it's on vibrate and will not distract you or others. Comparing a watch to something that makes and receives calls, has noises, takes and plays audio and video, and plays games is, again, absurd.