Phone Usage During Breaks

Posted on May 7, 2014 by Steve Dominguez in Op-Ed

Chelyah Miller

Chronicle Reporter

For the past couple of weeks, the administrators have been cracking down on taking our phones at nutrition and lunch. I thought that lunch and nutrition was supposed to be our free time, where we could relax before the next few classes. Not only that, but if they see you with earphones or headphones on, they tell you to take them off.

I don’t understand this, and I find it annoying. I understand that using phones in class may be a distraction, and because of this we’re not allowed to use them. At nutrition and lunch however, we should be able to use our phones or listen to music. It is in no way a distraction and we’re not doing anything wrong. We are just trying to relax and blow off steam before classes.

Taking our phones from us accomplishes nothing and all you end up with is a bunch of angry kids with too much time on their hands. When we’re on our phones we can be studying for a test or listening to a lecture, not doing anything bad. There’s no reason to take them in the first place. Frankly speaking, it’s stupid. Incredibly stupid.

We should be allowed to use our phones at nutrition and lunch because there’s nothing wrong with it. It makes no sense for them to be confiscated or for us to be made to turn them off. We’re not harming or disturbing anyone. It’s wrong of the administrators to take them from us on our breaks.