Txting Away Ur Education

Txting away ur education

            Looking back a few decades ago, the typical High School teenager would always be walking around with an arm full of books with their face crammed inside a book for last minute studying or a brain refresher on the material. Now walking around a High School all you will see is students putting their complete attention on texting while walking between classes with an occasional glance up here and there and throwing in a hi to a passing friend. This is an especially true opinion by a man named Patrick Welsh writer of  “Txting away ur education” and English teacher at a Virginia high school. In his article Welsh is very persuasive and includes many detailed arguments explaining the negative effects of texting has on students and school and even providing a simple yet obvious solution to fix this.

            With T.C. Williams High School as the new found battlefield and the administration and parents fighting the battle over texting it might be get ugly real quick, but they won’t go down without putting up a fight to help students. The Nielsen Co. took a survey” in the last quarter of 2008 teens were averaging at least 80 texts a day, a figure doubled what it was the year before”. Implying an implicit idea that the longer the technology and or new technology is out and readily available to teens we will only see a steady increase that may be for the worst. Welsh made an attempt to make it clear that he was highly upset with how adolescences and even parents are using technology. Probably the strongest statement Welsh makes is, “[f]or the most part, all this subterfuge might seem like innocent adolescent behavior, but evidence suggests that texting is undermining students’ ability to focus and to learn – and creating anxiety to boot”. Although it may sound like it’s nothing, but in fact implicitly it could be destroying the youths of this decade’s education and future. I think that this is his strongest argument for his opinion and with the facts he includes with it makes it a very valid point. The fact that he works at T.C. Williams High School and can gather valuable information from his students and also few teachers makes all his arguments that much more reliable.