Thursday, June 15, 2006; Posted: 11:12 a.m. EDT (15:12 GMT)
Summary
Reasons for ban of cell phone:
-Source of distractions during lessons:
->to send and receive text messages
->taking photographs
->surfing the Web
->playing video games
-Aid students in unlawful acts
->using phones to summon friends for fights
->cheat during exams
->to take illicit photographs
Against the ban:
- Parents need to contact their children to ensure their safety
My take:
With the improved technologies, everyone is connected everywhere via a gadget- the cell phone. With just a punch of a few numbers, one can contact another party who might just be very well at the other corner of the earth. And with increasing affluence and the convienence of contacting people, cellphone has slowly integrate itself unconciously into our lives.
One might argue that this communicative gadget is only meant for the working adults and students do not need it at all. However, I feel that students do have a need for a cell phone. In any case of emergency, their parents could easily contact them. Furthermore, the activities in the school are quite hectic. Hence, with a cell phone around, it will be easier to update your parents about the activites that are going to take place that day and what time it will end. Therfore, with a cellphone around, parents will feel more secured about the safety of their child as they can just call their child up anytime to check on their well being.
No doubt one might argue that students may misued their handphone for unlawful acts. However, this is just a sweeping statement as not all of the students lack that maturity and self discipline to use their phone appropiately. I think to prevent the usage of cell phone for wrong doings, the education system should instill the sense of responsibility and self displine in students rather than banning of cell phones in school. A murderer could easily obtain a knife to kill someone. Does this mean in order to prevent such murder from taking place, we should impose a ban on knives? Thus, I think that the banning of cell phone is quite unnecessary. Furthermore, by instilling the sense of responsibility and selfdiscipline in students, students will have a higher maturity in their thinking and they will be able to make decisions which are well thought through.
Hence, I am against the decision of banning of cell phones in schools.
posted by nutty-me @ 11:14 AM
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