Texting Away Your Education

I understand teachers becoming frustrated with students for using their cell phones during class. I don't however believe it is becoming detrimental to their education. We somehow need to get the parents involved or make the no texting during certain hours feature a mandatory rule during school hours. During the school day, students should not be on their cell phones but I think it is highly unrealistic to try and enforce parents to dispose of the texting feature on their children's' cell phones. I read an article on this not too long ago and studies show that texting does not affect students' writing abilities or any other subject material. They know when to switch modes and when writing a paper, they should write in a formal way. If we want to accept it and bring new technologies into the classroom we can't take away features like text messaging away from the students. We must embrace this new technology but set limits on and prohibit the use of it at certain times while in school.