Think education, not chit-chat
There was once a time, in a galaxy far, far away, when every man, woman and child didn’t walk around with a cell phone. Adults went to work, and students attended school without the ever-present cell phone always nearby.
Those days are never going to return. Cell phones are here to stay. But education officials shouldn’t let cell phones infiltrate our schools.
Instead of relaxing the current rules to allow cell phones during after-school activities, school officials should take a long look at enforcing the rules already on the books.
According to Director of Schools Dr. Jerry Hale, cell phones are completely banned from school property. Wow! You would never know it by making a trip to the high school. Cell phones are everywhere and in the possession of seemingly every student.
Students call each other from bathrooms. They send text messages to each other from classrooms. For lack of a better word, cell phone use might best be described as “widespread.”
And that’s during a time when they are banned completely from school property. Think of how cell phone use would progress if phones are actually allowed on campus, even just for after-school use.
The bottom line is our schools need to continue a positive trend of improving local test scores so our students don’t dwell near the bottom of the educational ladder. That means students should be concentrating on memorizing their school work, not memorizing cell phone numbers.