1. United States
2. Ind.
3. Letter

For context, I am a high school student, and I will be a senior in two months. With that context, I would like to ask you to consider lifting the bell-to-bell phone ban. To begin with, schools are not safe enough to remove a student's only contact with their parent. Controlling the distribution of weapons should be of more concern to the state than controlling how a student uses their own property. Which leads into my next point that the state has no right to control a student's legal property. The student owns the phone, so why should anyone other than the student's parent be able to force them to limit their use of it? Additionally, recent studies have shown that limiting the use of phones in school has had no impact on test scores. With that information, what good is passing another law? The problem is not phones. It is a lack of motivation. If a teen is not invested or interested, they will not feel like participating. A lot of that has to do with computers eliminating engaging activities within the classroom. Students are forced to sit infront of computers for seven to eight hours and expected to be interested in what they are being forced to learn. I hope that you will take this into consideration. Thank you for your attention to this matter.