Texting: a Conflict for Wildcats

Pro:

By: Eboni McFadden

Willow Canyon students fight teachers every day about the right to text in class, but texting is a right all students need to have. A phone symbolizes safety and security. I feel safe and secure knowing I have my phone when I need it.

Sometimes emergencies come up with parents their children. Someone could be almost dead in the hospital, but students wouldn’t know because they can’t flip open the phone and see what is going on.

It is less distracting for parents to text their student on the phone than stop the entire class to get up and talk on the school phone.

Allowing students a few min­utes of texting can sometimes increase their focus on work be­cause then they will be less in­terested about talking to a friend about something important that has come up.

Texting is not a problem; it can be a solution to various issues. Students text and ignore teach­ers because they choose to--not because they need their phones in class.

We shouldn’t ban a tool stu­dents need; some teachers need to give students something worth­while to look up at from their phones.

Con:

By: Amanda Oder

When students text in class they do not get their work done. This is why their use is banned during the school day.

Cell phones are not good to have when students are working on in-class assignments or tests because some students use them as tools to cheat. Though they can be used for educational purposes, more often than not they are de­vices that cause distraction and apathy towards work. Students, even when allowed to use them in class to get work done, usually choose to use their phones for other purposes.

Electronic devices are not al­lowed because there are too many distractions, and students need to be more into school than tex­ting someone else, which in turn causes them to be distracted.

The goal of school is to give students a good education, to have good grades, and to plan for their futures. It is not to have students socialize. This is a component that can go along with learning but is not the sole focus.

Usually texting is an excuse to not do all of one’s work or to just tune the teacher out. We are only at school for eight hours each day; we can wait to use our phones un­til school is over. What ever hap­pened to talking to people face to face anyway?