Texting in Schools

In the past couple months I have noticed that technology is slowly, but slowly assimilating itself into classrooms. But, how far should we take these new advances. Computers and cell phones both work side by side in this "21 Century," I strongly feel that all cell phones should be OFF during a class, period. If one student is going to text, they all are going to. Every student for the past 100 years has not used a cell phone for education purposes, we should not start now. Computers do the same amount of applications a cell phone can do. Teachers can plan to use computers for assignments. Teachers have plans for reasons. It is extremely hard to catch classes up if one is behind. Time management is one essential key to being a good teacher. If kids are texting it is distracting. Distraction leads to time delays, which in turn lead to a lesson plan leading into the next day. I believe cell phones in classrooms need to be turned off, if the student needs to make a phone call they can go to the office. But, if the teacher can use texting while using combining the core subject, by all means. Let em.