Mossy Creek Middle School: Case Study

“Give me your phone!” “Whose phone was that?” That’s what the students at Mossy Creek Middle School deal with because the school bans the student for using their cell phones in class. My friend, Tucker, got faced with getting placed in ISS for using his phone in class. I believe that the 8th grade students should be able to use their phones in class. To begin with, the phones provided as a great tool for the students to use in the class room. The students were as cheerful about using their phones as much as going on a field trip. You can also download educational apps for school. For instance, there’s an app that tells you what you’re looking at in the sky at night with just a push of a button and it calculates all the objects in the sky at real-time including moon phase, planets position, and stars position. It takes the class to places we’ll never be. Last week, I asked my Science teacher “I wonder what the moon looks like up close?” Next thing you know, BOOM there we are right where Neil
The Chicago Tribune had an article on August 8, 2012 called “Are cell phone a must for middle school kids?” The parents of an 11 year-old girl said that “Now she can check her phone between classes if we have to communicate with her.” The top reason parents are buying their pre-teens a cell phone was safety, according to the National Consumer League survey. A Pew study noted that 48 percent of parents use the phone to know where their child’s location. If in danger, children can reach the authorities or medical provider. In a push of a button, parents can easily reach kids for reason like ask questions, change plans, or to slimily say hello. My good bud, goes to a school where you can use your phone, he said that it was easy to communicate with his parents when he needed to know how he was going to get home in the afternoon, if he forgot something from home like homework, or even when he’s