Banning cell phones in Texas schools?
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- Опубліковано 8 вер 2024
- Several school districts across Texas have experimented with banning cell phones in the classroom. Texas State Rep. Ellen Troxclair says it's an issue that the legislature should consider taking up.
Absolutely I can’t believe that they waited this long to band them.
We all spend too much time on cell phones.
So ban them right ?
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I taught here in Texas for 12 years, Math and physics, and the last time I taught was 2019. One of the major reasons I quit was unregulated cell phone use. Kids constantly distracted. At the beginning I could confiscate them if the teen abused it. By the end couldn’t do anything to discipline them and on top of that I would get in trouble if an administrator walked in and saw them using. Sometimes, even a parent would defend their use for safety concerns.
Could they be used in a constructive way? Yes, especially for my class. But it was always social media used in the most destructive ways. Usually, a kids self esteem tied to it.
Ban them!
Yes. We did fine without them.
Should be up to each school or school district.
I did fine with mine.
So now lets see whose GPA was higher. Mune was 3.85 and never once gave up my phone.
You cant force your kids to be smart. Its a nurture thing.
@@rampagegamingg8434 I'm NOT Grammer police. But your spelling is horrible! Give me your phone now! Lol
Back then we didn’t have the constant fear of school shootings either. Uvalde is down the road from my town.
@@queenbee1920 And that is your excuse? Damn, that's pathetic! Try again but stop being a victim for once in your life!
They are a major distraction in school and when driving !!
There is absolutely no need for cell phones to be in classrooms
Seriously all schools need to ban them
Pretty sure phones are already to be put away in classrooms. Do schools really want to confiscate phones or prevent people from communicating that bad? Sounds like a rule a dictator would impose.
Uvalde, some of those children got to say goodbye to their families
@@kenball4906I’ve been posting exactly this. The Uvalde parents were notified by their kids via cell phone. Some of those parents went down and were able to get their kid out of the school. Those parents would have had no idea what was going on if their kids didn’t contact them.
I’d love to at least see a study show a. Definitive proof that cell phones are damaging kids’ brains and b. The age in which this stops happening. There are a lot of things that adults do that aren’t healthy, but we don’t ban these practices. Maybe we should ban McDonalds. It’s creating a generation of obese people. Or maybe we should leave things up to individuals, as long as they’re not hurting other people.
@@kenball4906And??
That's not a valid reason to contribute to the degeneracy of delinquent behavior in school.
Try again.
YOU FORGET ABOUT UVALDE!!!!! SHAME ON YOU
Hell yeah, it's a distraction...period. We couldn't have anything in class, AT ALL!! NOTHING!! They shouldn't have them.
We didn't have a lot of things, like shooters we needed phones to dual 911 for.
Just forget the hundreds of teachers in the buildings?
@@poisonpawn6452 teachers have phones. Smh, they are good man. We gotta stop this coddling.
@@CheweyRocco right, they have phones. Get em back to listening to the teacher, not phones. Man they went crazy when we had pagers and Nintendo game boys lol.
What school did you go to? We had a lot in school. Unless you were in a cave then quit the lying.
Yes I do belive banning cell phone is in order. It will help in so many ways.
Which ways?
@@skankhunt3624 As an ex school district worker I have seen first hand the problems that arise from cell phones at school. 1) irate parents coming with loud mouths screaming for special concessions for their child. It's upsetting to everyone that is forced to listen to it and problematic for law enforcement that is risking their lives to help. 2) the parents that come to the school in their ' got to get a man ' outfit on. No one taught them decorum and they come there with ya- hoos and large amounts of fat sticking out everywhere. That is embarrassing. If you need more. I got more.
@ScarletAdhesive Why not confiscate them if used inappropriately or implement stricter policies regarding their use in class?
@@apertureb2247 because as a retire school employee, I've seen the phones confiscated for legitimate reasons and the parents come screaming and threatening.
@@ScarletAdhesive Well thats the main problem
Yes and all schools should ban cell phones.
No.
And what do you tell the kids that just went through the Ugalde massacre, who were able to contact their parents and get them down there? Some of the parents went into the school and got their kids out.
@@dontbanmebrodontbanme5403If your best argument for the continued presence of cell phones in schools is to bring up a school shooting, then you have no argument. Believe it, or not, the world functioned just fine before cell phones became a thing. Might be hard for you to grasp this fact, but the Sun came up every day, the birds chirped, and we managed to survive.
@@gus24sevenWhy do you not want to see cell phones banned in schools?
Depends a LOT on the schooling level in question: I remember well in college that if I didn't have a functioning cell phone, I couldn't get home from class when it was done- so that's a significant problem.
I think it should generally be the call of the teacher overall; sometimes that capacity to look things up should be useful; sometimes it can be downright *morally* ruinous to the students.
Plus there's been cases in my own college schooling involving a teacher using his cellphone to inform the students of problems with attending the class on *his* part, so there's serious problems with that- and I am literally all in favor of restricting phones in school and removing all reliance upon cellphones, even reverting to payphones- with no recourse otherwise and no pay phones; just *to* isolate people.
Why is this even a question??? The benefits FAR outweigh the negatives
Pretty sure phones are already to be put away in classrooms. Do schools really want to confiscate phones or prevent people from communicating that bad? Sounds like a rule a dictator would impose.
So the only issue I have is that there was a mass shooting in Texas not too long ago and those kids were able to contact their parents via their cell phone. I don’t like the idea of them not having that contact. Amazon also told their factory workers they weren’t allowed to have cell phones while working. Then, a tornado passed through, the roof collapsed and it turned out many people initially survived being trapped under the rubble, but couldn’t contact rescue workers and died after.
@@dontbanmebrodontbanme5403 maybe the school can issue students emergency phones that only work to contact help. No data no outgoing or incomming calls
@@dontbanmebrodontbanme5403Oh well.
No cell phones in schools is a no-brainer, the same with operating rooms.
Yeah, I like that too. It's crazy how many surgeons post things on social media
They don't need cell phones in school, it's a major distraction.
Kids can go to the office to make a call and parents can call the office if they need to tell their child something.
@@jeanettesmith765 Payphones could be re-installed.
That's right, re-installed. Should have left them there.
@@juliebarnett9812 Kids do online school from devices and have been homeschooling for ages with a balance of alternative learning and device use. Most those kids are advanced in practical real world experience compared to standard public schooling. They also are less likely to behave bratty and give in to peer pressure.
One word, three numbers: Uvalde 911
I'm not sending my child to a public school without a phone. If you are a parent, and do, then you have far too much trust in the public schooling system, as well as the police. I maintain contact throughout the day with my children through their phones, for THEIR safety. If a school decides they can't have their phone, then that's a place I will not allow my child to go.
I taught 40 years in public schools and retired in 2014. There is NO GOOD REASON a kid needs a cell phone in a classroom. No one had them or missed them the first 25 years of my career. Why are they a “right” at this juncture?
bull, if your iinfo is good u should welcome fact check. And if they zone out on phone maybe take a look in the mirror at ur teaching style
Air conditioning wasn't necessary in schools 40 years ago either. Cops patrolling school campuses wasn't necessary 40 years ago either.
How about to warn friends during an active lockdown?
No phones in the classroom. Student protest? What is going on these days?
The adults should be setting the example and leading the kids. This means teachers should not be on their phones either. I'll go a step further and say it's time to get rid of the chromebooks as well. The kids are spending so much time on youtube while at school.
Cut service from 6am to 6pm for freshman to seniors.
6 pm is a little late. After school hours is fine as many kids rely on rides home and my own grandson only used his after school hours to get a ride home if his mom couldn’t get him. She was an international stewardess that had him call her boyfriend if she was called into work. The same when she was in the marine corps. My other grandson has a phone but it’s only used if we aren’t sure how or when he’ll be picked up.
Back in the 1970's, 1980's and 1990'S , Students had to go to the front office to use the phone. In an emergency parents were notified by the school. Kids were fine.
😊😊😊
This isn't the 70s, 80s and 90s. Also Uvalde would like to talk to you
@@julianvazquez437So extreme outlier statistics are going to determine this?
Besides in Uvalde the primary inside contact to police was a teacher with a cell phone…which no one has an issue with. One cell phone per class is plenty.
@@Accurize2did you just use Uvalde as a prime example!?
The event where your good guys with guns stood around for an hour as elementary school kids were slaughtered!?
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Part of the reason why police didn’t do much as they could have is because the left wing have been demonizing the police, the previous eight years before hand prosecuting them, and attempting to destroy their lives for doing the jobs. It goes to show that most people aren’t gonna take a risk for people like you. Blame yourselves.
How you think that would have played out on the uvalde school where law enforcement let the shooter kill kids who callrd for help,
Can't believe it's took this long for any school district to bring this up. All schools should have a jammer. With land lines still installed.
Everybody laughs at my land line.
Not legal to jam any radio signals per the FCC.
There are cases where students might need the cell phone. Flexibility is the key here.
@@maryswanson9982No we laugh at the price for a landline
Lol yea let's see how we'll that goes when the school board gets visited by the fbi and tells you your under arrest for installing a jammer😅
Kids are not there to play on their phones, They are there to learn something
Isn't learning self-control a valuable life skill? Taking away the phone doesn't teach self-control, but it does teach the next generation to use force as a behavior modification method. Mussolini, Hitler, Stalin, and Reagan would be so proud.
@@gus24seven Why do they need phones when they're supposed to be concentrating on school work?
@@gus24seven you must not have kids
All over. Is why. They are soo, BOLD, AGGRESSIVE, DISRESPECTFUL. To teachers. To the point, of attacking them physically."
Drs. Are NOT allowed to have their phones with them.
There’s an active shooter is commonly texted by children.
Yes they should.
Should be banned in all schools. You'll see an increase in academic marks
Or you'll see a heavy increase in dropouts and people being homeschooled.
Cell phones don’t belong in the Classrooms,,, Period!!!
Cops, drug dogs, and serving breakfast don't belong in schools either, but the collapse of the family unit has forced school to make changes.
I went to a high school that didn't have air conditioning, but they added AC when they built a new high school 20 years later. Times change.
you gotta keep up with technology. We aint using an abacus and fingers anymore.
How will children being shot at text loved ones?
@@bryone6421I'm sure the good guys with guns will save them... Like Uvalde...
@@curtisleeyork1978can you contact your best friend with an abacus?
Every taxpayer funded school should ban student cellphones .
There has never been a greater distraction in history than cellphones and social media. Kids are there to learn, not socialize
No school should allow cell phones
Yesss, it's very important tool for sexual activity
Y’all need to worry about protecting kids from crazy active shooters instead of cell phones
Foreal
Texas Penal Code §42.062, if you: Knowingly or recklessly. Prevent or interfere
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Works in Japan, it should work in the USA.
They don’t have mass shooters in schools either or a problem with DWIs or many other things that we have
Yes but Japanese children don’t worry about having to call 911 during a mass shooting incident. It would be cruel to not have a phone to call their parents during such situations. How many children had phones in Uvalde calling into 911 during the massacre? 😊
@lesliejaggers2275 the phones wouldn't be out of reach. Just in the classroom they would be docked or put up.
@@lesliejaggers2275 They have mass shootings there, too. When my school had a lockdown, so many kids called their parents so the emergency vehicles could not even get into out parking lot. There are phones in each classroom for outgoing calls.
@lesliejaggers2275 usa kids also don't need worry their 911 will not save them
No one needs a phone in school
Yes , I can't use my phone if I have both hands and all my attention on my work.
Students don't have 100% of their attention on their studies if they have the phone in their hand.
Yup. So many kids on TikTok
Snapchat is a much bigger problem than tic tok
Doesn't matter what they're on, it shouldn't be at school, what they do at home and after school is their own business.
They should be banned in all schools. Faculty have phones to handle calling parents. No need for them
That’s funny. Faculty did not call parents when a high school near me had a deadly shooting in front of the school. When parents found out at the end of the day, they waged anger the next day. Then when students found out, they also complained and the school staff told them to shut it, because they are tired of hearing it from the parents already.
They’re good for documenting last words of children being massacred.
@@bryone6421Yeah, I'll pass.
Nobody's saying they can't have them in their backpacks turned off just that they can't use them in school.
@@Zer0FuXGiv3n I believe the backpacks are bulletproof. They should protect the phones.
@@bryone6421 I mean they do sell bulletproof backpacks.
That said if today's kids carry anywhere near the textbooks that we did, nothing's going to pass through that backpack unless it's rated higher than a 50.
If all the parents agree that cell phones in school are a distraction, how about not allowing your kid to take a cell phone to school? It's like we need a nanny state to combat the nanny state.
Ahh the person who does not have kids stands up. Let me know how that goes for you. There was a time cells were expensive. Now you can get a smartphone for about $25 and a service plan for $20.
@@TheTrollTrollyYeti The person who excuses poor behavior because of its relative low expense stands up. That’s okay. Your kids will be serving mine daiquiris soon enough.
@@mcdouche2 The person that doesn't see the benefits of cellphones today in american schools. Is the same person that will wonder why, no one made conract to the outside during an active shooting. Fix the school shooting problem, before you worry about a damn cell phone in schools. Republicants have nothing else to offer Americans. All they do is distract and stir controversy.
Let me guess election is around the corner.
Unfortunately some children use cellphones, AirPods, smart watches to cheat on exams. They go to the bathroom and make videos to post on social media. There attention spans are not on learning.
Absolutely yes!
Still not understanding why they were ever allowed in schools to begin with. Grades have gradually declined since kids have been allowed to carry them in schools. Couldn't imagine a bigger distraction for a teenager.
Wondered that to why did that even begin is insanity
Yeah, because parents don't do their jobs, instead they worry about gay people and immigrants and tell their kids those are bad.
Yup we weren't even allowed to use calculators or any kind of electric.
Ban them !!
Ban tiktok
Banned during class, allowed during free time and lunch.
Is it that hard to enforce that simple policy during a the class? A flat ban is ignorant. Just confiscate the phone if you see it during a lecture.
@luraluz Its not just cell phones, social media is on basically every electronic device. I could put the most common things on my watch now. Hell I used to bring my IPOD Touch to school back in the day and it had no internet. Back then it was just taken away if I used it during class hours.
If you want kids to socialize give them activities to do so. Not the ones where you force kids who obviously hate each other to do group projects together.
Also phones and electronic devices are now a key part of society, using them to learn and go about your everyday lives now is required in the workforce. The amount of older people who refuse to google things to learn is astounding and they would rather ban the devices then teach their kids moderation.
All schools should ban cellphones.
One word three numbers prove you wrong: Uvalde 911
@debbyvibbert3177 You do know you can track your kids.
They need their phone because their generation has to live with school shooters just ban social media from their phones during school hours
Considering Texas is a hotbed for mass shootings, kids should be allowed cell phones in schools so they can say goodbye to their parents before they're killed.
@poisonpawmyn6452 Exactly my first thought 😢
Cell phones? Cell phones? I wasn't allowed to chew gum in class. BAN THEM CLOWNS!!
"I had it sh*t, so they should too"
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@kevinw3267 They are banned in most classes, it's the schools lack of discipline when they are caught using em.
Should be totally fine to use em during free time or whatever
Had to scrape off gum from under desks for chewing in class and got caught.🤣
Right 😂
All schools! We went to school without cellphones and test scores were better. Cellphones and Chromebooks, no laptops either. All should be banned. Cameras in the classrooms are enough. I would support it.
I disagree! Back then parents didn’t have that constant fear of school shootings either. Uvalde is only a few miles down the road and those kids who called from their cell phones for help would’ve never been heard once their two teachers were shot. Parents will push back!
what is your data to back up your argument? I smell BS. Right wing bigots want to CONTROL THE INFORMATION SPACE. Students get around it by QUICK RESEARCH and THAT is what bothers the RIGHT.
We didn't have air conditioning either, get rid of it. Kids don't need air conditioning in schools.
Banning computers in school?
No laptops and computers?
When was the last time, you where in a school.
Kids do their work with computers and laptops.
@@queenbee1920
Parents didn't have the constant fear of school shootings, in the past.🤦🏽♀️
What
How old are you.
" Yes, they did.
I guess you never heard of Columbine, in the 90s.
Parents have been fighting for gun control for decades because of school shootings.
If it wasn't so many school shootings in America, people would not have passed the gun free school act in the 1994.
My school had a shooting in the 80s at a football game.
We had to hide under the bleachers, in the stadium.
It was 2 gangs shooting at a school football game.
It has been schooling shootings in Texas before Uvalde.
August 1, 1966 University of Texas Massacre
A man name Charles Whitman climbs atop the observation deck at the University of Texas.
It has been school shootings in this country before I was born, before you were born.
It was school shooting in the 60s, 70s, 80s, 90s, and early 2000s.
Below is just a few school shootings in America.
In the 1960s
University of Texas Massacre in 1966.
It was 16 people killed and 31 people wounded.
In the 70's
June 12, 1976 California State University, Fullerton massacre, where the school's custodian in the library.
He killed 7 people on campus.
In the 80's
January 17, 1989 Cleveland School massacre of Stockton, California where 5 school children were killed and 29 wounded.
In the 1990s
1.Columbine High School massacre in Littleton, Colorado in 1999
Eric Harris, 18, and Dylan Klebold, 17, opened fire before committing suicide.
They killed 15 people
3.Thurston High School shooting Springfield, Oregon in 1998
After he was expelled for having a gun in his locker, Kipland P. Kinkel, 15, a freshman at Thurston High, went on a shooting spree, killing his parents at home and two students at school. Five classmates wrestled Kipland to the ground before he was arrested.
4.Westside Middle School
5.Lindhurst High School shooting
Yes yes Yes! The principal's office can call parents and take important messages
As a teacher, I strongly believe that cell phones should be banned in schools.
Period.
Imagine a teacher saying “period”. 😂
U sound dum maybe for sum grade levels but not all
One word and three numbers prove you wrong: Uvalde 911!
@elenahodgson7807 They are actually something of great value. Yes, children do abuse the use of cell phones. Some of them. However, if a parents kid comes up missing because they ditched class, the cell phone will give away their location. Or some other reason they come up missing a phone can be tracked. Number two is if they have health issues. Personality I think their are some good teachers, but not all teachers are cream of the crop. With distractions from students they may not pay attention to situations that will set them up for failer. Emergency situations is another reason. The teachers could have them bring the cell phones to them if they are using them out of turn. That's what they did when I was in school. Though we didn't have all the cool functions they have today like internet.
Uvalde ..
The whole nation should have a ban on cell phones in school👍🏽
You really think that’s a good thing?
@@oladeebiazazi4538 ABSOLUTELY for instructional time. Maybe set up a phone zone for rewards and privilege after work is completed and behavior is acceptable, etc. Jammers work very well. I took all phones when they walked in my class. Don't give it up, you don't come in, PERIOD💯
@@oladeebiazazi4538yes?
@@oladeebiazazi4538 They don't understand what they are saying but this is why American is in such a bad state. We want laws, laws, laws instead of each school making its own policy.
@@oladeebiazazi4538why is it a BAD thing? What value is a cell phone in school?
It's got my vote. There's is no good reason for a student to need access to a cell phone in school and there are multiple reasons why they shouldn't. If parents need to get in touch with their children, they can call the school. If students need to get in touch with their parents, they can go to the administrative office.
Yes. Ban cell phones.
Or teachers put felt pockets on wall that all students leave phones in before class starts. Cells to be picked up when class ends.
You're always gonna have some who try to sneak them in bc they think they're so smart and know everything
@karenwhite4141 Then, students who abuse the privilege, deserve to lose the privilege. And their phone not allowed in the school at all. While their classmates have their phones at the end of class.
I’m curious how many people watched this video or commented here from their cellphone.
Poor democrat
It don’t matter how an adult responds, from what type of device.
Were an adult an no longer in school. An already been through schools without them an or before they existed.
An or an adult in school that still agrees children don’t know how to refrain from screwing around when they shouldn’t be. That’s why they’re kids.
I don't have a cell phone, just a trusty old land line, I view the internet from my computer
People watching this video aren't school children 😅❗
If parents feel that their child NEEDS a phone, a flip phone should be sufficient. They need to stop giving these kids smartphones, never monitoring their activity on it, then acting stunned when these kids no longer have an attention span
No phone, period
Isnt taxas literally the poster child for "parents control the education"?
Who tf are you to tell me MY kids cant have the phone I pay for?
Worry about your own damn kids.
That will hardly accomplish anything many flip phones can still access the Internet, text, etc.
@@Animalstyle69 there’s no Snapchat, IG, and millions of other distracting apps on a flip phone. It’s also WAY MORE inconvenient to text on a flip phone, which is what many kids love to do all day long. Even with internet connectivity, there’s no UA-cam or lord knows what else it is that they’re watching on those phones. These smartphones have given kids TOO MUCH dangerous privacy
Kids don't need cell phones period. They do far more harm than good when in the hands of juveniles!
Ok Grandpa, start by not calling them juveniles
@@MattHudsonAtx Spoken like a real adult.....get over yourself nimrod!
@@MattHudsonAtx
How about miscreants?
Juvenile is more appropriate, look it up.
whens the last time you've been in a school
lol, I got deleted 🤣
Yes
Yes. Ban them completely.
They don't want students calling for help on the next Uvalde so they won't get as embarrassed at their cowardice again.
My first thought as well.
A simple solution would to put a landline in every room. For emergency use only. Or a panic button like stores use for security. There are other solutions.
@@loriegordon5227 good idea
Any child not under the care of a family member should have a phone in their pocket.
@@MS-ig7ku Too Right!
I don't think a bunch of kids protesting the taking away of their toys holds any weight whatsoever 😂 Of course they'd protest, they're addicted.
Shouldn't every state ???
Exactly my thoughts 💯
Absolutely not, as a parent I expect my children have open communications to and from family. Silence phones during class, is advisable.
Exactly! Thank you!
Phones are available in the main offices if needed.
It's not needed. It's a luxury, we did fine without them before.
@@martelen and how many mass shootings were happening when you went to school? it’s a safety concern for kids not to have their phones. Just enforce stricter rules about having them out in class.
@@youlovejenn1 They were always an issue even then, but we managed fine without them anyways.
Safety concern? Not really, entitlement maybe?
The staff and school are in charge of safety not the kids. Metal detectors, officers on duty, training intances.
The list goes on, but hey lets keep our kids super distracted with phones, Texas totally isn't at the bottom of the state list at 41 in education.
I will assume anyone who doesn't want my child to have their phone is a pervert.
In my opinion, education system is too old and inefficient. Children's talent should be recognized at an early age and related skills should be taught. What percentage of those who have completed their education get a job related to their education. The educational system must either be updated or its validity will be lost. In my opinion, the new educational system should be a combination of three main subjects: theoretical and practical education at the same time as earning income.
Agreed. We've fallen behind in invention and exploring children's individual progress.
In my district, all students are given a tablet which is all the technology they need.
I agree but this video was about banning cell phones
@@johnniewasr5740 and banning them to focus only on a brick and mortar structure studies that hasn't served them or provided ongoing usefulness in today's landscape was appropriately related to point out. Generally I encourage to stay on topic but that is a valid point on why not to ban them.
Maybe if we could stick with teaching ready , writing, history and arithmetic children would learn something! Instead teachers are expected to be babysitting, parenting and refereeing fights! Let’s not forget the hours spent arguing with parents about how their “wittle baby” is displaying terrible disruptive behavior in class or at lunch. Then the hours spent asking children to put their phones away and pay attention. Most parents are what is inefficient to the education system.
Yes, cellphones definitely need to be banned. There is no reason for students to need a phone in school, if they need to call their parents for any reason, they can go to the office.
Uvalde police department whats your emergency? Jackass
Possessing a cell phone provides a sense of security for people of all ages. Since we can't/won't keep guns out of schools, students must have their phones--with strict rules on when & where they can be used.
I’m shocked there aren’t more of these opinions… I completely agree.
Since when was it legal to bring a gun into school?
I will assume anyone who doesn't want my child to have a phone is a pervert with bad intentions.
This would probably be the ONLY thing that I would ever agree with Texas. Maybe kids could actually LEARN instead of paying more attention to social activities. Censoring books? No.
Blocking woman’s rights? No.
Banning cell phones, absolutely.
Also, set up internet firewalls like major companies do.
What women rights is Texas Blocking?
What rights don't women have please explain. I'll gladly wait a hundred years for your serious response.
@@robertofigueroa465 I bet the only thing that they can come up with has something to do with murdering unborn babies. But the woman has the right not to get pregnant to begin with. God made it that way. There is a choice. PS. I see that they didn't respond back. Typical democrat
@@billybrown7953 CHOICE
You self righteous prig.
I’ve never understood why schools allowed them in the first place
Yes, next question.
There was a time, as i recall, when cell phones did not exist. There's no reason for students to have access to cellphones in school just as every student, before the cellphone era, once had none. Sad this is even a topic of our times.
bingo!!!!
There was a time, as I recall, when calculators did not exist. There's no reason for students to have access to calculators in school just as every student, before the calculator era, once had none. Sad this is even a topic of our times.
There was a time, as I recall, when AC did not exist. There's no reason for students and schools to have access to AC in school just as every student, before the AC era, once had none. Sad this is even a topic of our times.
There was a time, as I recall, when electricity did not exist. There's no reason for students or the rest of the world to have access to electricity, before the electrical era, once had none. Sad this is even a topic of our times.
See how that works. Just because you or others did not have access to today's technology before it existed does not mean we deny it to those of today. FYI, many schools, colleges, and universities, are moving toward an online learning presence. In my local community college, you need to have access to a phone, laptop, or tablet just to attend class now because most of the materials, especially books, have become eBooks only now. You even have to install the apps used by the schools to have access to your books, along with your school/student account. It is used to check into classes, do homework, classwork, quizzes, tests, and so much more. Even some of the local high schools have begun to adopt this method of learning.
Definitely. Most private schools ban them, and I guarantee they are getting better grades and test scores than Texas public schools
Only if they allow parents to view and hear the classes their children attend! We can not allow the state to run unchecked with our trust any longer!
Give the kids a choice. Either keep their phones in their pocket in case of ER or active shooter or be disrespectful and thus without phones.
YES!!!!!
If it wasnt for cell phones, there wouldnt have been as much survivors in Uvalde.
Dont forget.
ANY CELLULAR SIGNALED DEVICE SHOULD BE BANNED. NOT JUST PHONES. PARENTS SHOULD BE FINED PER CHILD FOR DISREGARDING RULES
Ahbyes small goverment
@@slowbro1337 I’m confused where he said this should be a federal law? 🤔 Or maybe you just ride the short bus?
Yes!
@@crispinfornoff206so you understand the small government push to be solely aimed at the Federal government? I'm asking honestly, where do you get that from?
@@Tusk_Tact Small government doesn’t mean there should be no intervention whatsoever. That would be libertarian. Small government just means that towns and cities should get to decide most laws, and if you didn’t like them, you could move ten minutes down the road. That’s what small government means.
They were banned in 2005 because they were considered a distraction even though there was very little that could be done on them. Now, there's valid cause for it. They can use smart watches instead.
Should be nationwide.
No! This hurts U.S Corporations and rich people. That is a violation not only of their Constitutional rights, it violates their human rights and dignity.
As a teacher, I fully support this. I know of children who this is all they do, every waking minute!
No one is stopping you from banning them from your classroom. You don't need to make it a State Case.
Yeah, have you tried doing your job as a teacher and wrangking YOUR classroom? no?
Alright then, make it state law for kids to give a damn, lets see how far that gets you.
You gonna charge kids criminally for bringing their phones? What, are you gonna fine parents when their kids bring ohones to school? In a state where mass shootings seem to haopen rather often? 😂😂😂😂
@@rampagegamingg8434 I'm sorry, that was a bit incoherent. Who is talking about criminally charging children?
@@rampagegamingg8434when was the last school shooting in Texas? How many within this year? How many schools are in Texas?
@@GeneJohnson-vy2ci It’s during school hours.
Funny thing, students learn more from their iPhones, than from school.
ahhh but what are they learning, not math or writing skills if the youth I encounter are any example
Have we forgotten about Uvalde shooting ?????
Sadly
When was that and how many more of those has happened since then? And how did cell phones save any of the kids lives? Exceptions should never make for deciding rules.
@@n.d.m.515 bro a little girl was on the phone with the cops while she was hiding under dead classmates
No cellphone should be in the hands of anyone under 19
flip phones and mp3 players are the future
They always say they need cell phones for emergencies. Let them have flip phones with no videos.
No phones of any sort.
Homeschool is the best school.
No lmao
Yes homeschool.
Yes, deprive the youth of even more social skills than they have today!
@@howled0 yes deprive kids of learning how to curse. Smoke, immorality etc. I’ll pass. ✝️❤️
@@howled0as if schools teach social skills other than how to hate parents, get bullied, take drugs, and curse morality.
Soon, they will be requiring kids to learn.
Nope. That has already been determined to be an act of white privilege and functions as systemic racism.
Hell no y'all can't keep kids safe at school and barely keep them fed. Their phones need to be on them but if course don't use them in class. We been doing that since the 90's 🤷🏽♂️
When these are the questions asked.. its quite obvious an entire society is hugging stupid.. just to collect and coddle incompetence!!
What about in the case of a school shooting? In Uvalde, kids were calling their parents, and 911 from their phones.
How ridiculous! Absolutely DO NOT ban cell phones. A cell phone is a life line for kids in an emergency, should be one in every backpack. Parents can relay msg without calling the office. Think of all the images that have been taken on cell phones that no one would believe if not seen. Discipline those that don’t follow the rules … chickens 🐔 Keep the phone with the kid & ditch public schools.
Wouldn't want the kids to call for mommy and daddy in a school shooting scenario.
What would they do? Seriously. Have any kids been saved by crazed gunmen by calling parents?What if they are hiding and a phone rang alerting some killer where they were? Teachers and administraters and campus police alert authorities.
@@janetprice85 I promise. If I get that call I'm going to the school. And cops won't stop me in any way from going into the place. If they have to face consequences for stopping me then it's their descision. They just won't make it home.
@@janetprice85 one Uvalde child was killed as she called out to police who called for students first. They didn't even step in at that point either.
@@stevenjohnson891 The aurhorities were there. They just did nothing. They were a small town with no proper training. Even in large cities like Nashville crazed killers commit their evil. We have had mass killings long before cell phones. Sad but true. Cell phones should be banned in schools and for kids under sixteen. There are a lot creeps out there not to mention bullying.
I will assume anyone who doesn't want my child to have a phone has bad intentions.
It's not just kids who are addicted. There's hundreds of UA-cam videos of adult women frantically using cell phones while being arrested and unable to unhand them while fighting with the police.
WW
YES 100000000000% and put chips in cars NO CELL PHONES PEROID !!!!
Yes! Ban cellphones in all classrooms!! Maybe these kids could actually get a life!
And then what are you gonna do? Pat them down every day?
Confiscate is used in class. Like when I was in school. Our parents would have to come get it.
@BloodSweatandFears These days, if they confiscate it ..the parents would be pissed off... Times have changed.
@@Unclerucki If it’s the law, they can get as mad as they want lol
We werent even allowed to have our phones in our pockets in school growing up, had to be in the locker during class hours
How else will kids call the police to refuse to respond to active shootings?
In case something happened at school emergency😊
every teacher has a phone plus the office has landlines
The amount of tears this will create….legendary.
Ban in all schools
We grew up with no phones why should these kids have them
We didn't have air conditioning in schools.....
What's your point again?
I remember back in the day we had our own school lockers. They made to bring that back and have students place them there to cut down on someone taking their phone if put in a pile.
Yes, as a teacher kids don’t need phones in the classroom.
Well you're not a teacher to all kids so there's that. 😂😂
Cell phones should not ever been allowed during school hours period. This would not have even been seriously considered, even 35yrs ago, maybe even not that long ago. This is one more major contributing factor that is why our country is in the pitiful, inexcusable, societal shape it is in 2day!
With all the school shooting how are our kids gonna call us while hiding in a closet?
Texas says yes to the guns and no cell phones to call for help 🤦♀️. TEXAS 😪
That is a good thing to address. I’m sure a solution could be found pretty easily.
They’re not if they’re hiding in the closet, they should remain silent. Besides, what’s mommy and daddy going to do in that scenario?
I guess in your mind a school shooting is the biggest concern and not all of the drive by shootings on the daily! Let’s not forget about those who drive past a bus with flashing lights. Let’s not forget about abductions that have occurred with students walking to and from school. Unfortunately most of these incidents require police intervention FIRST…..
@snovismom
You think all the kids in a classroom are going to fit in a closet in the room? What school did you fail from?
As a teacher in Florida, I wish that all states would do this. There is absolutely no reason why students need them. We have a telephone in every classroom in case of an emergency, and every adult on campus has a cell phone. I’d vote yes on this in a NY minute.
Can't be worse than requiring displays of Christianity views in schools
I agree with State Rep. Ellen Troxclair, get phones away from students at their desk in the classroom. They do not need phones for their academic work. I'm a liberal educator in the northeast, and I agree with the Republican Texas lawmaker.
It is really disturbing that the concern about school shooters was not immediately met with, "Perhaps we should do something about that?" Sigh... Texas...
Yes! When I was in high school, students couldn't even have pagers.
Cell phones were banned in most schools long ago. As a teacher I know that a student is not thinking about their class or learning when they have a phone on their body. Also the disturbance it will cause when it goes off. Why on earth would a student have a need for a phone in school. Schools have a phone for them to use if truly needed to call home. We had a phone in every classroom if one was needed. 😮
Good. It will encourage younger people, once able to vote, to vote Republicans out of office.
TRUMP 2024
Phones turn to your brain to mush? Sure, I agree from a personal experience, but same goes to the horrid school system that forces students to wake up at 5:30 AM, go to school for 7 hours to “learn”, and go home only to be met with more work afterwards, and repeat that for *5 DAYS IN A ROW!*
The same school system America refuses to change!
It should be an across-the-board ban if this is the route they are taking. Teachers, people who work in the office everyone. Go back to only using landlines at school. Back to dialing 9 to get out. The principal can be an exception.