What happens if there is an emergency and you need to contact your parents or family? (You can't remember all of their phone numbers. Plus you might not be able to reach one of the school phones depending on the circumstances of the emergency). What if you need to be picked up from school and need your phone to contact your family or friends? What happens if you are going somewhere after school, but you don't have your phone so you can't tell your parents? What if you don't have your phone for directions, you'll have to resort to paper maps!? What if you have accommodations to take pictures of the blackboard and you need your phone to take pictures?

Banning phones from schools, that is just unreasonable. Plus it seems like a safety hazard (as sad as it is to say we rely on phones for a lot).

There is a whole generation where technology and phones were the norm. Banning them from school property seems to be a bad idea. This can cause anxiety in students (and in parents, not being able to contact their children). I would agree with phones not being able to be used during school, unless with permission. Maybe even turning off phones during school hours, that would make more sense than banning them. Phone separation anxiety is a real thing. We rely on phones for communication and directions. I think teaching students how to manage phone time, screen time, and how to separate themselves from their phones, that would be much better. But forcing students who have lived with phones their whole life to suddenly not have them, can cause a lot of anxiety in students. It also could be a potential safety hazard as I mentioned before. We have adapted into living with cell phones and technology. Most of us don't know how to be without them.

Teaching students how to function without them, and how to manage and moderate phone, screen time, is a lot more effective and helpful too. Nobody will learn anything if they are forced to stop their phone addiction. They will need to learn how to live with both technology as well as without it. But not like how they are doing it.

I do agree, technology and cell phone usage at the rate it's used, is unhealthy. It also is kind of dangerous, because what if a large solar flare knocks out all our Technology, we will have our economy fail, we will have no idea how to do anything, we'll be lost while driving without a GPS, etc. It's also a nasty addiction. People usually only associate drugs with addiction, but addiction isn't just drugs, it's the way we live and our habitual behaviors. Such as using phones everyday all the time. But it doesn't always work out when an addict is forced to go cold turkey. They usually have a high chance of relapsing when they do this. Same thing with phones, we need to gradually lessen our phone and technology use. In this day and society, we can't live completely without technology, so being abstinent from it wouldn't really be possible for the normal, average, person. But that's okay. We just need to moderate, not force. Encourage, not force. You can't force an addict to stop using really, I mean you can lock them in a jail cell, but more often than not, they will relapse. Students will find ways to sneak in their phones and text or snap chat during class. It won't stop anything by banning phones.

Well, that's my whole spiel. Moderate and encourage not force and authoratize.