School students and mobile phones - it’s the new addiction. Why has it become such a problem or an epidemic, as it was described today?
I know there’s a security debate to be had on this subject, but weighing all that up, doesn’t it make sense to simply confiscate the phones when the students enter the school in the morning and return them when they leave in the afternoon?
If the student needs to make an urgent call to parents or for some other purpose surely they can speak to the teacher! Schools still have phones that need to be plugged into the wall - I know it’s old, I know it’s not that cool, but they’re there.
Didn’t we all manage, before mobile phones were invented?
The Department has no guidelines on this. None… no edict, no rule, no leadership.
Schools have worked out individual guidelines along with their Parents & Citizens committees with some schools choosing to ban mobiles altogether. Only some.
Most, however, are choosing to still allow their students to bring in phones and the playground is the place for texting and making calls.
Would you have any objection to your child having their phone confiscated, when they enter school grounds? Give me one good reason why this should not be the way to go!
Do you think your child would feel less secure if the phone was not actually in their pocket? If so, they have an addiction and they need to be sent to psychiatrists straight away.
What are the kid’s stance on all of this? And what sell-job are they doing on you, as parents, to keep their phones in their pockets and ON? It’d have to be pretty good.
Has your child actually spoken to you about this? Is this an issue for them? Have they been threatened or blackmailed in some way, via the phone by a fellow student?
That’s what this is about… kids who use their phones to film various fracas in the playground and then via the internet facility in the handset, post them on the net… on YouTube, mainly. That causes additional violence and starts school wars.
It’s that simple, but so is the solution.
