Hang It Up

“ Hang it Up” If you are a teacher? Wouldn’t you want your student to listen and not play with their cell phones? If than those students that didn’t listen are not going to pass any test or even get to the point of dropping out. But anyone who listened should be able to pass test and not drop out of school. So do you want your students to listen? Or will they just play with their cell phones. And maybe in a factual condition in the classroom, status if you’re going to let them use their cell phones In “Hanging it Up” Jesse Scaccia argues that cell phones are distractions which causes failure. She begins by pointing out that a handful of these students will fail the class, a number will not pass the Regents exam, and far too many will drop out of school. Therefore she argues that even through they have confiscated eight hundred cell phones, they are still being used. However, she notes that parents argue that they rely on cell phones for safety. She also notes that a student with a cell phone is an uninterested student, that has a short attention span and cares about social life more than education. Next she offers an example that phones are a status symbol. She further clarifies that if students can store their phones in the locker is a joke. And if they have a cell phone, they will bring it into class. At the end, she concludes that parents should rally against crowding of the classroom, fight against the oppressive and culturally biased Rengents test. But they are wrong on the cell phone issue. She concludes that they, are the problem and not the solution. I agree with Jesse Scaccia of “Hang it Up” because the definition cell phone, distractions and classrooms and my own personal experience which is that if you text in class you will not be able to concrete on what is being taught and will not be able to pass test and it will take away attention of others that are trying to pay attention. Lets us look at the intensive definition of