Districts Inclined To Hang Up On Students' Cellular Phones
The debate over whether to allow students to carry cellular phones on school grounds is intensifying: Parents want their children to have the mobile radiotelephones for safety and quick communication with home. Many administrators and teachers see them as yet another classroom disruption. And state lawmakers are being caught in the middle.
In the early 1990's, cellular
phones and electronic pagers were widely associated with gang activity
and drug deals—a reputation that led a number of districts to
prohibit the use of such devices on school grounds, according to June
Lane Arnette, the associate director of the National School Safety
Center in Westlake Village, Calif.
Although cell phones have lost their unsavory associations, they nevertheless disrupt the school...
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