Full name: Yassine El Rhaffouli
Exam number: 216 E 17
Topic: should high school students have cell phones?
Cell phones among high school students
Almost 4.68 million people use cell phones nowadays. Using cell phones has become
common among young adults, adults, and even elders. In fact, many useful services have been
integrated into cell phones in an effort to facilitate daily tasks. Hence, high school students
should be allowed to have cell phones.
Cell phones can be a very handy gadget for students. There are countless of useful
applications every student should use. Task organizer, for instance, stores and organizes the
different tasks students what do. By inserting the tasks they want, the application gives them
plenty of options such as deadlines to get the tasks done, date and time of the task, and even
categories for tasks that belong together. Moreover, students can easily store their school
schedule in their cell phones, and access it seamlessly. Therefore, cell phones can be very
helpful for students’ needs.
In emergency situations, cell phones can be an effective solution. During the school
day, students are likely to encounter different situations in which they need to reach their
parents. For example, if the students missed the bus to return home, it would not be much of a
problem to reach their parents asking for help. In case of bad weather, students can get their
parents to pick them up by car, so they will not have to wait too much. To sum up, cell phones
can provide an immensely efficient solution for emergencies.
Some people argue that students should not have cell phones as it is a time waster.
Recent studies have shown that the average rate of hours teenagers spend using their cell
phones for networking can range between two to four hours. As a result, students can end up
losing focus on their studies. It is understandable why opposition believe that students having
cell phones can result in some unpleasant situation. Nonetheless, this resolved by setting some
rules for cell phone usage. Such rules can be like determining how much time and for what
reason a cell phone can be used; deciding what applications and websites can be accessed; and
requiring students to give the phones back to their parents once returning home.
As a conclusion, high school students should have access to cell phones as it
facilitates their learning process and provides them with wide variety of useful options that
can help overcoming some obstacles. Besides, the world is ever changing and students should
keep up with different technologies that makes their learning path easy, clear, and smooth.