text: Why can we not have the phones? Why take them away? Students need phones as if they need oxygen to breathe. It is legit that even if you banned phones from school property, students would still bring and use them anyway. There is honestly no point. Sometimes they do go off during class, but it is not on purpose. I do understand the statement that phones are in fact distracting to the students and classmates. If you banned them, students would not be distracted, or taking the risk of exposure to the phones, causing them to be possessed by teachers and administrators. What's my opinion?