Sec: Cell phones must be banned in schools. What are your views?

With the advent of cell phones, school students have been bringing such devices to school.

This, however, has been a cause of concern for many.

Some feel that having a cell phone would cause the students to be distracted and this might affect their studies and should be banned in schools. However, other believe that cell phone should be allowed since they can help students in their learning.

Personally, I feel that cell phones should not be banned in school because of its many useful functions but there must be some restrictions to control its usage to prevent it from distracting the students unnecessarily.

Firstly, it is a well-known fact that cell phones have many applications that could facilitate learning.

For example, in the past, if a student needed to find definitions of words, he would have to use a dictionary. This was cumbersome and a lot of time was wasted. However, now, with the use of smart-phones, students could easily download dictionary applications, such as dictionary.com, to help them find the meanings of difficult words. This helps to the student to shorten his learning time.

Similarly, there are also other useful applications that could help the students. For example, some would agree that Internet is like a gargantuan library where one can find all sorts of information. One useful website is the Wikipedia where students can use their smart-phones to do research on their projects. This is far more convenient for the student as he would not need to travel to the library to do so.

As discussed above, it is not difficult to see that the use of mobile phones should not be banned in schools.

However, some argue that bringing the cell phones to school would cause students to be distracted from their learning.

For example, many students like to go on facebook to update their current statuses, check their notifications and reply to messages. While some do it discreetly, others check every few minutes and have become addicted to it. Some even chat in class using applications such as Whatsapp and Viber.

This prevents them from paying attention in class and listening to important concepts and skills that would be useful to help them understand crucial information and facts that could enable them to secure high academic grades.

Since students do get distracted, clear boundaries should be drawn on mobile phone usage.  There should be clear rules on how and when to use the cell-phones in school. For instance, cell-phones should be switched off or on silent mode during lessons. They should only be used if the teacher allows the students to do so. Students who break the rules would have their phones confiscated for a period of time.  These measures are important to help the teacher teach better without unneccessary distractions of the mobile phones.

 

In conclusion, I feel that cell phone should not be banned in schools . It should be allowed to be used to facilitate learning but there must be some clear restrictions on when and how to use them. It is believed that in the coming future, the mobile phones would even replace school books for all the notes and homework would be stored inside them.