Schools Without C Phones

Cell phones are one of the most useful inventions to date, but in schools, they don't work. Education is a learning field, and when there are distractions like cell phones, they don't help the growing process. While I see cells phones as beneficial for some parents, who need to speak to their children before and after school, I maintain  there are too many other hazards of using them in learning institutions. The dangers of cell phone communication  have been proved over and over again when gossip and in-fighting and name-calling and racism are used on these devices. It's just too easy to "say" things that cannot be taken back, and the myth of apologies, as we all know, are words only. The gesture of apology while used all too frequently now, doesn't fix anything. It is merely a way of an offender excusing themselves from what has already been committed. Words can't be taken back.  Cell phones, no matter how many dozens of useful reasons for their presence, have no place in the classroom and wise teachers and educational institutions should not, or do not allow them there. And the gesture of having students drop their phones in a basket to retrieve them after class, for hallway and concourse use, is just as silly and useless. Nowhere on a campus is safe from what can be done negatively with the cell phone. Bullies love cell phones and use them rampantly  to carry on their miserable crimes. I call them crimes because they are crimes against our humanity, and bullies are, in fact, the perpetrators of inhuman behaviours.  So what would happen if all cell phones were banned from schools. Children would not suffer. Their parents can still call the office if they have a home emergency that needs to be communicated or to find out if their child is safe on site in the school. Wouldn't it be refreshing to see a school ground that doesn't have youngsters huddled over a tiny device doing nothing at all useful. Computers of various kinds could still be in the classroom setting and used as helpful devices under supervision. If you are thinking that disallowing cell phones in schools is "old fashioned", tell me how they are at all useful in terms of being in an educational institution. Be prepared to defend your thoughts with facts and not babbles about rights and freedoms. The rights and freedoms of being educated do not include constant non essential communication with other cell phone users. It is bad enough to sit at a dining table with all eyes around it, hammering away saying nothing onto a wee piece of plastic with a battery. King Arthur's Round Table would be impossible had they used the Silly Cell in those days. With parental intimidation in today's My Rights overkill times, maybe it's time we got things back into perspective and started being parents with strong and moral grounds in rearing children. In this confusing world, perhaps children need our strength and strong support to say firm "nos" when needed. Kids like guidance with confidence in that it is done with their safety and security in mind, as well as our deep parental love instinct that has no fear of doing what is right and good for our responsibilities.