Ban Cell Phones from MCPS

Dear Superintendent of Missoula Public Schools,

I am a junior at Seeley-Swan High School and I am proposing to you a very unpopular idea among my generation and my peers. Cell phones should be banned from all Missoula County Public School classrooms. This idea is even disliked and rebuked by teachers. I suggest that cell phones are more detrimental than beneficial both to students and teachers. I am not here to complain and be a tattletale.

There needs to be a district wide regulation on cell phones in the school, one that does not give teachers a choice in deciding cell phone use. Teachers sh...