NH Register: Guilford Schools Right For Considering Smart Phones In Class

Think kids should be able to use their smart phones in class? Some in Guilford Public Schools - and the New Haven Register - think so.

The Guilford School District is considering a new policy that would allow students to use cell phones and tablets in class next year at Guilford High School. In a Monday editorial, the New Haven Register lauded the idea.

The Register argued that almost all other industries have changed because of smart phones and tablets, and public schools should follow suit. Students are using these devices anyway and will have to use them for work in the future, so they might as well learn how to use them productively, the Register writes.

"If schools aren’t committed to using the web to transform an education model that is being disrupted regardless, they might as well maintain the ban on smart phones, tablets and laptops," the editorial read. "We hope, instead, that local school superintendents and boards of education will put such devices in the hands of their principals and teachers, that they will harness the full potential of the web to improve what happens in the classroom, and that we’ll get to the point where we’re excited to see the Library of Congress in a student’s hand."