Texting May Be Taking A Toll

By Katie Hafner

      This article Texting May Be Taking A Toll is about how children (Teens) are always texting. They text late at night. In stores and while in class. This problem is beginning to worry physicians and psychologists. It also says that texting is leading to a lack of sleep. Which means that the child's focus in school is not good at all, and it's causing bad grades, and distraction.
 Dr Martin Joffe, a pediatrician in California, surveyed students at two high schools and his results were that many kids were sending hundreds and hundreds of texts each day. "That's one every few minutes," he said."Then you hear that these kids are responding to texts late at night. That's going to cause sleep issues in an age group that's already plagued with sleep issues." Its also effecting the health of teens.
The article also states that texting is taking a huge toll on children's thumbs. A fifteen year old girl, Annie Wagner, An honor student in ninth grade in MD., used to text on a small LG phone really fast like using a computer keyboard. Not too long ago, she felt cramping in her thumbs. She is now using a bigger phone and her thumbs feel alot better. Texting slower, making it less painful to text.
     Teachers are seeming to be oblivious to the fact that their students are texting in class as well. texting underneath their desk or social networking the middle of a lesson.
"You pretend you're getting something out of your backpack." said Ari Kapner, a classmate of Annie Wagner. Teachers say that there is nothing they can do about it.
"I can't tell when it's happening, and there is nothing we can do about it," said Ms. Deborah Yager, a chemistry teacher in Castro Valley, California. "And i'm not going to take the time everyday to police it."
I do agree with this article personally. Teens spend more time texting or using their phones on the internet more than they do anything else. They have to be monitored on how much they text, and when their texting. I don't spend my whole day texting but, I minimize my time and I think that's what everyone else should do too. Do you agree with this article as well?