To Ban or Not to Ban!!!
Dealing With the Cellphone & Social Media Bug in Our Schools!!!
Cell phone use and our apparent dependence on technology have become both a blessing and an inadvertent, terrifying woe to everyone and the whole world around us. Mom and dad are guilty. Employers and employees, adults and children everywhere.
Anywhere you turn, any part of day or night, people are hunched over their electronic device. At home, work or play. In motion, out of motion and even when you think it is humanly unnecessary. It is the last thing you kiss before bed, first thing before your feet touch the floor in the morning.
Cell phone in the shower, in the car and everywhere. Cell phone on the roof, on the bike, in the pool, down the walkways and the waters of an angry lake. Our children see it, copy us, and are hooked in things that not only distort their ways but drastically ruin their precious earthly days.
The absence of a cellphone in the hand of any man, woman, or child has suddenly and probably forever become a trigger for an elevated sense of danger, chaos, panic, and all forms of insecurity. For many people around us today, life simply hovers around the cellphone device.
The dangers of unchecked and uncontrolled cellphone use in our schools both by school employees and the students themselves have remained an incurable epidemic immensely destroying academic productivity and learning. Students cannot resist the urge to check their phones, chat with friends and get involved in all forms of social media vices.
These create a lot of diversionary lifestyles interests and pastimes which not only diminishes the quality of their engagement with academic pursuits but many times produce more devastating outcomes for the a child, hard working parents and even the community.
Social media, while offering connectivity and useful productive resources as so intended, also bare multiple risks and dangers hard to curb. These platforms create environments where students are exposed to so many perversive social activities and unsafe ideologies, coaching them to prioritize online popularity over academic achievement, wholesome and meaningful relationships with actual humans and family.
At the end, what we see is increased cases of juvenile delinquency, mental health crisis, crime and drug, almost no-existent interest in academic pursuits or any form of real social, economic relevance in society. Who do we blame at this point? Kids, their parents or the entire system???
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