Some students wish they could still use AirPods at school
By Antonio Z. and Emmanuel O.
Some students believe listening to music can be beneficial in terms of doing work faster and more efficiently.
However due to the new phone policy, students are not allowed to use their AirPods or wireless headphones, which, according to some students, has negatively impacted their academic performance, and focus during class.
Junior Kiara O. is against the new policy. She said, “I actually hate that rule ‘cause this is our property.” She explained by saying, “school doesn’t provide that, we should be able to bring it.”
In regards to AirPods, she said, “I think AirPods help some students focus because, you know, background noise, and it helps you lock in.”
But, she also said it has a non-academic purpose too.
“I think students just like to listen to music just because. It’s music. Who doesn’t like music?” she said.
She explains how people will still find a way to listen to music on their chromebooks.
Fellow Junior Sergio M. also explains how teachers should allow students to have their wireless headphones on during free time or when they are doing individual work.
He believes wireless headphones should just be taken off whenever they’re not playing any music.
He said AirPods help him and other students work better, but he acknowledged that “I see some students locked in, while others just wear AirPods and not do the assignment or work.”
Mr. Morio, a substitute teacher, said he used to allow the use of AirPods when he was a middle school teacher.
“But it would usually be during assignments where they would have to do it individually or whether, let’s say, they are passing around a paper and the rest kinda have to do stuff,” he said. “It just took a lot more monitoring just to make sure that they weren’t using [the AirPods.]”
He believes wireless headphones can be both beneficial and distracting depending on the student explaining how it can both benefit and overload students.
He did say that sometimes he had to confiscate them, especially if students were using it for something “inappropriate.”
He said, “ I remember a big thing was Andrew Tate stuff and all that. So that was a big problem, but, yeah, usually I would take the phone away, take the computers away depending on whatever it is but for the most part, yeahM I had, you know, I had confiscated AirPods or phones.”
