text: I strongly believe that we should be able to have our phones out outside of class. One reason i believe this is because many times my friends have had to hide in the bathrooms or hide behind friends because they have to text or call their parents. A lot of the time it is because we don't feel good or sometimes we might have forgotten a project that our teachers will not accept late. Half of the time we aren't using our phones to talk to our friends. We need them for important reasons. Or sometimes our parents need to get a hold of us. Yes, it's true that our parents could contact the office and the office would send us a pass letting us know the news. But, sometimes the news is personally and we don't want other people knowing what's going on. Anyways this isn't always effective because my friends mother had called saying she needed to go home with her friend because she could not pick her up that day. Well, my friend never got the note from the office and her mom had to get off her job to pick her up. This could have easily been avoided if she could have used her cell phone.