Exposition Writing (Group) 2019

Starting last term, Miss Hines told us to get into groups of 3 and write a piece of exposition writing about "Should cellphones be allowed at school". My group included me, Hannah and Billie, and we decided that cellphones shouldn't be allowed at school. Here is our finished piece of writing!

Cellphones at School

Think, do you really want to be spending your whole school day on your phone instead of learning? You probably said yes, but you will regret it in the future. Kids are easily distracted by phones and social media. which has shortened our attention span.

Study shows that at least 1 out of 4 eye patients come in with the complaint about eye strain from reading text on a small screen. We normally blink 15 times a minute, but it decreases by half when we are on our phones. This can cause blurred vision, headaches, and sore eyes. Electromagnetic fields produced by phones come into direct contact with pupils’ brains and can influence the overall state of the organism. People who use cellphones are several times more subjected to brain tumors and acoustic neuromas. There were other adverse health consequences like leukemia, infertility and different types of cancers. Only imagine how detrimental cell phone towers are!

Kids are easily distracted by cellphones when they are MEANT to be working. They will go onto their phones to check messages on apps like Snapchat, Messenger, Instagram, Tik Tok, Facebook, Twitter and many more. Once they are on these apps, they won't be able to retain themselves from continuing to use them. Also if students find that the work is too hard or they can’t be bothered, phones will be one of the first things they think of for free time or to get out of doing work. Sometimes kids will use their phones to answer questions in exams and research shows that 35% of students even admit to this.

With phones at school there is a higher chance of cyber bullying. Alright,I know EVERYONE LOVES Instagram, Twitter Facebook, TikTok and other Apps like that. BUT THINK! Do you know the words bully and cyber and if you put those 2 words together then you will find what is really happening on the life of a child's phone.

If you bought your cellphone to school, it has a high chance of being stolen, especially if you had an expensive or top of the range phone. It would become very desirable to people who don’t have or didn’t bring their phones. Besides, how would your parents react when you came home from school telling them that it got stolen from the super cool school bully? There would be three outcomes, one being grounded for a looong time, two not getting a new phone from your parents and three, both of the above.

In conclusion, we believe that cellphones should not be allowed at school for all of the reasons above including health, cyber bullying, distractions and theft.

By Kyra, Hannah and Billie-Jean