Should Cell Phones Be Banned From School?

I believe that cell phones should not be banned in school, and that they should be allowed. Cell phones should be allowed in school because they can be used to help students in school. If a student is absent or late one day the student can send the homework to another student to show the teacher, so that the teacher knows the student did his/her work. Also if a student needs to get a missed assignment or homework for that day, he/she can text someone to find out what it is. On cell phones there are also calculators, and these can be used for math equations during class or whenever else it is needed. Also, a student could use the phone's camera to send pictures of notes to classmates or to record the class so he/she could use that to help for learning. If a cell phone is banned from a student then that student would not be able to bring it to school, then it could not be used for after school either to call for a ride or for any other uses because the student would not have it. There are ways  that cell phones could be used for bad uses though. For example people could text during class when there not suppose to, or they could play games instead of paying attention. Without cell phones students would still find a way to communicate with other students or find a distraction during class, so it would not matter if they had a cell phone. Overall cell phones have a positive influence toward school and they should not be banned and instead encouraged for good use.