The Pros
• You can be in contact with your kids, and be familiar with where they could possibly be.
• Your children can contact you in the occurrence of an urgent situation, and vice versa.
• If in hazard, your kids can contact the authorities or a medical provider.
• Phones can be silenced through class or learning periods, and active only in appropriate places.
• Cell phones generate a handiness that was previously unavailable. With cell phones, you can with no trouble approach your kids for any cause: to ask them questions, transform plans, or to basically say hello.
The Cons
• Students frequently fail to remember to turn off their phones in class, and ringing noises or text-message alerts interrupt learning.
• Even if set to silent, cell phones can still cause interruption, since text messaging has happen to be a high-tech process of passing notes in school.
• Students have been recognized to use cell phones to call in bomb threats to schools, to pass up or reduce class time.
• In the event of a extensive crisis, extensive cell phone use can overwork communication systems and render them fatal.
• Student cell phone networks add to the extend of gossip and propaganda, which can be hurtful during a extensive crisis.
• Phones can be used as deception devices during exams.
• The long-standing physical effects of cell phone use are still undetermined.
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CELLPHONES
Students are allowed to have cell phones at school. They have to remain switched off in class except if the classroom professor gives precise agreement for phones to be used. Any phone used lacking agreement in class will be confiscated and will be able to be picked up by a parent among 8.30am-4.00pm at the front office.
Unsuitable use of cell phones before school, at interval or lunchtime will be dealt with strictly and may be referred to the Police.
The College takes no liability for, or will not spend time investigating misplaced or stolen phones. Students will be expected to take care of their own cell phones.
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