ALLOW STUDENTS TO USE MOBILE PHONES IN SCHOOLS
It is no longer news to us, right? A substantial number of junior high school and senior high school administrators have seriously criminalized students’ possession and usage of portable hand-held communication devices, called mobile phones in school. However, in a technologically evolving civilization such as ours, it is mindboggling to witness institutional authorities carefully design unfounded rules and regulations to arrest students’ livelihood and creativity on campus. At this juncture, let us observe a minute of silence to mourn the loss of common sense which has created this mess called, discipline. Like I said, a mobile phone is nothing but a portable electronic device which uses cellular radio network to transmit and receive signals. To a layman, a mobile phone is just a call making device. Advancing baseless reasons to justify their inconsiderate rules, we hear from school authorities that, allowing students to own and use mobile phones on campus would spike th...