With a new administration comes new rules. Some including, a lanyard with your school ID at all given points in time, new phone rules, and more enforced dress codes. 

Having a lanyard with your ID on you at all times can be an inconvenience, but it’s pretty good for security. It makes it easier for our administrators to make sure that everyone in the school is supposed to be here, and not someone dangerous infiltrating our school system. 

While some teachers may agree with the new phone laws, I think that they are a little excessive. Phones aren’t going away any time soon. I think that teachers should let the kids keep their phones and do what they want. We need to learn how to responsibly use our phones and know when to stay off them and pay attention to the lesson. If we don’t pass a class, we don’t graduate and that’s that. Allow us a chance to fail with our phones, so that when we get a job, we know how to be responsible with them. In the real world, we won’t be reminded multiple times to stay off our phones, we will simply be fired from our job, and that’s the kind of lesson we need to be learning now.

I know a few people who are a little frustrated about the “no phones on break” rule. It’s the student’s break from 90 minutes of the exact same topic. It is our time, and we should be allowed to have our phones during our maybe three minute break. Some of the teachers even feel that students should be granted the opportunity to be on their phones during their own time.