text: There are also cons to letting students hold phones in school. Last year, every single one of my classmates used a phone or an i-touch sometime during the year; everyone except for me. That is because my parents are very strict Asians and I won't get a phone or a girlfriend until sometime in college. Phones really are a pest towards concentration, nobody paid any attention at all during History class at all. (Then again, everyone hated the teacher, the class was boring, and half the people were sleeping.) Still, the whole phone scandal thing is still a huge problem. Right now, one of my friends still uses his phone every single hour of the day; and he still gets all A' s.