Should Cell Phones Be Allowed in School?

Dear Editor,

Should cell phones be allowed in school? Well, it is true that they generate an unnecessary distraction, and cell phones have been known to be used for cheating. With the rise of advanced cell phones, all of the students can go on the internet and legitimately quest for test answers. Many students are also texting during class, which causes them to miss vital facts during a class. If a pupil forgets to turn their phone to silent, and it rings, it causes an unnecessary disruption in class. It wastes indispensable teaching time by production the instructor having to take away the phone.

During school hours, the pupil should be totally focused on each and every class. Many schools have a phone in each class. If an emergency arises, people can be legitimately contacted via the phone. If a situation arises, and a parent needs to feel their child, they can just call the office, and be transferred to the student's current class. It takes less than 30 seconds! If a person's cell phone goes off, it creates a disruption. All of a sudden, the instructor has to get the phone, put it on the desk, and most students start talking. Back in the day, maybe 20 years ago, there weren't even cell phones. Many people have lived straight through that, just fine. We're no different, and if people could live without cell phones before, we legitimately can too.

Designer Handbags at Any Price?

How much is too much to spend on a designer hand bag? An Hermes' Birkin just sold at auction for more than ,000. Is that too much to pay? It was made of genuine crocodile and had a brilliant studded clasp, still too much? Believe it or not, that is not the most costly bag available, not even close. Forbes recently put out a list of the world's most costly handbags, at ,000 that silver Birkin did not even make the top 5.

So what is the phenomenon with outrageously priced designer bags? Is there any limit to their fabulous prices or to their appeal. Well, I guess that depends on who you ask. I don't think my mom ever paid more than thirty or forty dollars for a hand bag. She seems perfectly happy and always has a place for her wallet, pack of Kleenex and her cell phone. It does the job. I can't dream my mom ever seeing longingly at someone else's Louis Vuitton tote. She is too much of a practical Yankee to ever think spending hundreds never mind thousands on something so unimportant.

Yet for others the hand bag takes precedent over everything else. I once witnessed a mom rebuke her immature daughter for spending 0 on some articles of rather practical clothing saying, "Four hundred and fifty dollars! You could have bought a hand bag for that much!" When did this turn take place? When did a handbag come to be more foremost than back to school clothes? When did teens come to be the sensible ones and adults go over the deep end?