text: Phones are a distraction, this is coming from an everyday student. At home I text whilst I do chores and it distracts me and I take up a lot more time to doing these tasks. It goes for the same in schools, if a teacher gives out homework at the end of the class period and the students have five minutes to work on it, how many students do you think would take out their phone and say they finished the work given to them and that it is free time? What if other students were still working on the work and the sounds from the phones were distracting them? A school is NO place for a phone and no matter how many students get angry about no phone privileges it is better for them no matter what they think! The phones are distracting and get the user off task. I say that no phones should be used during school.