The Edgitators: Do Cell Phones Belong In Classrooms?

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 School leaders suspended a science teacher for five days without pay for going to extreme lengths to get his students to focus.  Dean Liptak is accused of activating a signal jammer in his Florida high school class to prevent his students from using their cell phones.

He later told a school district investigator that he never intended to cause problems, saying he thought jammers were allowed as long as they were not intended for malicious purposes.  The Superintendent says Liptak potentially violated federal law and that the signal jamming could have potentially interfered with others trying to call 911 during an emergency.

And that brings us to our Question of the Night: Do cell phones belong in the classroom?  The Edgitators weigh in…