should handphones be allowed in school ?

[zanzraj]

i know it might seem a bit late bringing out this topic but my class is involved in a debate ... i mean i m involved in a debate * screw the class * :twisted: and i was wondering what are the opinions beside the obvious ones like yes for safety and no for stealing ... could really use some help or if there is could some1 tell me sites with the info i need ......


* hope its suitable here coz its is a senseless debate ... :roll: *

[PeiWen]

Now it's totally banned in primary schools, I'm not sure about secondary schools, though. Overall, I think more cons than pros. Indirectly, pupils will tend to show off what type or what brand of handphones they are using. They will compete for the latest designs or the most expensive handphones. I've seen this clearly enough in Singapore, and also from my brother's situation. (FYI, my brother is now studying in Singapore.) Most of the students feel inferior if they don't own a good handphone, at least a camera handphone, I think is the minimum requirement to them.

[juventus]

Yes because;
It's easier for parents to keep in touch with their children. In our school for example, we go back at different times everyday (due to our timetable) and we only get to know what time it is towards the end of school day. Obviously, handphone would make everything much easier.

In a way, bringing handphones to school can actually boost the students' responsibility. Should they lose their handphones, they would have learned a valuable lesson.

No because;
Students are easily distracted. During lessons, my friends who illegally brought their handphones to school, took photos of our teachers buttocks!! Furthermore, boys would download pornography into their handphones and show it off to the world.


I think, it is best to allow handphones in schools. Banning it would only make students bring them as students are naturally rebellious. That's what I think about the issue. It's the same as sex actually. The more people don't talk about it, the more teenagers want to try it out.

[Salvation]

test

[zanzraj]

but do handphones actually enable a parent to monitor the children as the child can answer his handphone while having a blast with is frens in the cyber cafe and the parents won't know the difference ....

[digimushu]

In the US, there are cellphones that have preprogrammed numbers and only 5 buttons with those numbers. If i were a parent, i would give my kid one of those, as opposed to full-function cellphones.

[lolilo]

Smart phones should be banned from school.

But phones with the basic functions as to make and receive phone calls should be allowed in school with the conditions it must be off during classes.

No matter how the government and the schools are prohibiting students from bringing along their cells, adamant students who has depended on their phones for some time will not concede to that, will they?

;)

[vseehua]

true..but measures had to be taken so that the students won't lose theis attention in class..like teacher keeping the phones during the class...in a box...

I agree.

[Seiryu]

The few obvious negative implications of allowing handphones in schools are :

1) hand phones can distract students from academic lessons
2) hand phones can foster the growth of status conscious minds among youngsters.

Currently, there is rule stating that only a certain calculators are allowed during exams and students are obliged to adhere with this rule or they would risk their calculators being confiscated. Likewise, if we can limit the models of handphones allowed in school by setting up distinct borderline of which handphone models are allowed and which are not, the stated disadvantages can be overcomed! Simply put, students are allowed to bring handphones to school, with a catch. Expensive and high-tech phones such as Nokia N90 and Motoroal Razr are strictly prohibited. The ministry of education can even collaborate with certain handphone companies to come out with "student-friendly" cellphones, hence open up a friendly doorway to administrators as well as parents to monitor student's behavior in school.

Anyway primary school students should not use cellphones as exposure to high radiation (okay, not radiation but i can't remember the word, u know that thing that cellphone emits?) at such early age is hazardous to their growth.

[DecentMerson]

The few obvious negative implications of allowing handphones in schools are :

1) hand phones can distract students from academic lessons
2) hand phones can foster the growth of status conscious minds among youngsters.


mobile phones can distract students from academic lessons IF the teacher fails to get students to pay attention. IF strict rules such as if students caught using mobile phones in lesson, their phone will be confiscated or so, i don't think students will still be 'distracted'.

mobile phones can foster the growth of status conscious minds among youngsters, assuming that they are not mature enough. Mobile phones is not the only thing that can foster such conscious minds. A watch, a water container, even a pen, if students are not taught to only live within their means, can foster status conscious minds. Parents play an important part in making sure that their children don't fall for this.


Currently, there is rule stating that only a certain calculators are allowed during exams and students are obliged to adhere with this rule or they would risk their calculators being confiscated. Likewise, if we can limit the models of handphones allowed in school by setting up distinct borderline of which handphone models are allowed and which are not, the stated disadvantages can be overcomed! Simply put, students are allowed to bring handphones to school, with a catch. Expensive and high-tech phones such as Nokia N90 and Motoroal Razr are strictly prohibited.

Limiting the models of mobile phones can be easily done by the parents. I don't think most students are financially capable of buying
expensive phones(most high-tech phones are expensive). And, i think we really need to do something on this materialistic mindset of younger generations. Do we really need to limit this and control that just to make sure that it won't foster such status consiousness among students. Even if we do, i bet they are still some students who don't have a mobilephone, if so, wouldn't allowing cellphones in school too will propagate unhealthy mind.


The ministry of education can even collaborate with certain handphone companies to come out with "student-friendly" cellphones, hence open up a friendly doorway to administrators as well as parents to monitor student's behavior in school.

wouldn't other phone companies cry-foul... and are teachers supposed to check students' cellphone every day...


Anyway primary school students should not use cellphones as exposure to high radiation (okay, not radiation but i can't remember the word, u know that thing that cellphone emits?) at such early age is hazardous to their growth.
really? how long a use would be needed to really have much effect of affecting their growth... by the way, young users tend to text much more than talking on the phone... then i think parents who are smart enough will not buy their children a cellphone, or only allowed them to it with a earpiece.

just like people who were using cellphones in the rain, and got striked by the lightning... because of the cellphone, it resulted a more serious injury to the eardrum, but, it's not the cellphone's fault, the root of the problem is using the cellphone at a wrong time.


in a nut-shell, should parents thing that their children need a cellphone and can use one in the school, then, i think students should be able to bring it to the school. Of course, they must educate them proper manners of using the phone, and to take care of their belongings.

and interesting 'technology' to share...
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/wales/5077026.stm

it's about a high-pitch ringtone that most adults above the age of 25 couldn't hear.