text: Cell phones are one of the most essential elements in anybody's life. In a high school student, the cell phone is essentially important. I agree that cell phones are a distraction in class, but I see no particular reason for banning cell phones in lunch periods, when it is a social time for the students to kick back and relax, or answering to an emergency, and if using cell phones is their way of relaxing than I see no reason of banning them completely.