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I read the article Students Pay Price (Literally) for Cell Phone Ban by Will Richardson on the Weblogg-ed blog that talked about how these 9th graders at a New York high school who were paying thousands of dollars for there cell phones. When asked why they used there cell phones they continued to say safety issues. Three dollars a day for a safety issue is a lot to pay though. It was discovered that there were other reasons why these students wanted to keep there cell phones. These reasons included such as for pictures, videos, and even for writing. Will Richardson was at the school leading this conversation on and he showed how the cell phone could be used as an educational tool. He sent a text message to a number also known as GOOGL. In the text message he put,"Spain population." He got a text message back giving him the population of spain. I never knew you could do that and access that kind of information using my phone. He brings up that there should be some school education teaching about cell phones and there educational uses. I believe that it is a good idea to have this taught but cell phones should still not be aloud to be openly used in school.

 There should not be a tax to hold a cell phone. The policy that Arapahoe has is a good one where students can use there cell phones in the halls and are aloud to carry them free of charge. If they are caught with a cell phone thought it is taken until the end of the class. Sometimes it is even given to the office and can be picked up by a parent at the end of a day. 

Cell phones should still not be aloud to be used in a classroom because most students will not use it for educational purposes but for social reasons. Students can not hold that responsibility with that technology very well. It is like most other technologies. If it is a great technology there will also be a way that it can be miss-used. This is what it is  like with computers. They are great tools but are miss-used. 

Cell phones are a great technology but it is a technology that is not ready for open use in class rooms. It can be used for good like all technologies but it is often miss-used by others and there for it should not be aloud in a classroom. Although, it should be aloud to be carried by a person in the school free of charge