Budiman
Err...for the life of Orchi...is the education ministry really going ahead to permit students in primary n secondary schools...to carry cellphones...?
Orchi sees this as more of a commercial propaganda n agenda...ahem...increases in sales of cellphones...cellphone pre or postpaid subscriptions...n revenues from cellphone's related services such as sms...games...contests...phone chats...n other freaking promos...
Budiman
i think children in primary schools should not b allowed to bring cellphones to school...mann,wat is the purpose of those small lil kids bringing cellphones to school?? but i would recommend that the government allow secondary going students to bring cellphones to school but they must follow the regulations so that they interfere with class.
Budiman
Err...ALL the freaking snatch thieves...thugs...drug addicts...punks n robbers...would be DAMN FORKING HAPPY too!...easy picking of preys!...
Budiman
yup...thatz y itz down to the parents also to think whether to allow their children to bring cellphones to school
Budiman
Err...some parties at the education ministry MUST be involved in this freaking decisions...that could give rise to potential harms n jeopardize the safety n well beings of the students in n outside of schools...ahem...putting the kids as easy targets of all sorts of the freaking imaginable n unimaginable crimes...
IT used to be kids normally do NOT carry much valuables with them...
BUT now...more kids would carry cellphones...n those who are NOT carrying cellphones would be easily approaced n intimidated as well...as the easy targets...n putting them at unnecessary risks!
Budiman
yeah..but i still think they should be allowed to carry hp to school...if not,y are college students allowed to do so...they will interfere with the lecture...so must as well ban college students from bringing cellphones to college????
Budiman
quite simply, really.Originally Posted by kevin23
one's a minor, the other's a major.
Budiman
May I ask on what is the main purpose of students for bringing handphones to school in Malaysia?
Budiman
i see the gap and between rich and poor widening, isn't a school suppose to be a neutral place where all races, people, society, class, everyone come to gather and have fun learning? We don't need materialistic yuppies roaming the school, with their mobiles in the canteen chatting away.
What next starbucks in local schools, hey why not commercialize all over schools?
Where is the unity, have you ever wonder why we all where the same unifrom to school while we are young or even till present date? Why the same subject is being thought all over the country? Why bahasa Malaysia is our mother tongue? GOOOSsshhh Gov really need to go back to basics and remember what our forefathers have done!
Budiman
aurora,
Firstly, is owning a handphone considered to be a plaything for the rich? Can owning a handphone divide us frm rich and poor? I agree handphone used to be a luxury item 10 years ago but now, it has become a common item much like TVs or radios. The only thing that is the problem here is using/bringing it in school. Do u bring a portable TV or radio/walkman set to school and watch/listen to them while in school?
I hv even heard of schoolchildren bringing their Gameboy sets to school. Illegal ofcos. It shld not be the case. Point is, one shld not be allowed to bring anything to school that can interfere with the classes.
Ahem...this reminds me of my schooldays where I had brought a Game n Watch set (remember this 80s gizmo) to school and had it confiscated all becos of a blabbermouth classmate. Another tale to tell on another day perhaps...hehe.
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Budiman
I was once one of those parents who were dead set against kids owning and bringging h/phones to school. my daughter used to beg, plead, bargained deals to get one but I refused. Her main reason then was because "all my friends has one".isn't it said even kids in primary school have these status quo?The quest for hand phone continued till last year when i said she can have one if she buys it with her own money and pays for the prepaid herself.(I then thought well, she cant possibly ever afford one!!) But She managed to earn money by doing adverts and bought herself one. (A better h/phone then mine, I might add) And she now pays for the prepaid herself with her allowance.
I do not let her carry the h/phone to school unless she has extra activities after school.And when she does take it to school, she is not allowed to switch it on during school hours.It does have it's pros and cons on taking h/phones to school.As at times the public phone in the school is not working and apparently at times she gets a hard time from the admin office if she needs to use their phone to call home. As teeque mentioned,
.Firstly, is owning a handphone considered to be a plaything for the rich?
Can owning a handphone divide us frm rich and poor? I agree handphone used to be a luxury item 10 years ago but now, it has become a common item much like TVs or radios
It is so true...times are changing. Now kids ask for mp3's and what nots....Give them a radio and they stare at you as if you have gone mad.They dont even play with marbles anymore!! now, they are glued to the computer with mp3's/ipods glued to their ear.
Syltel@home
Budiman
That would depend on interpretations of what being rich/poor means in Malaysia.
After all, a foreign car (Honda Civic) can cost in the range of RM100,000. That same car would cost 25,000 in Canada.
Consider it this way...how much of your annual salary would you have to spend on a car...the average Canadian can buy a car with the equivalent of 8 months of salary.
So think about it...RM500 for a phone...how much of the average person's salary monthly is being spent on a handphone? 20%? 15%
In Canada I would pay have to pay 200-300 for a phone, perhaps up to 5% of my salary...and in Canada I would get a higher monthly salary than the average Malaysian gets here....
Even if you factor in the exchange rate, cost of living in Malaysia is high...
Mr. M warned his students on the first day that he has a bad habit of confiscating handphones if he sees them being used in class. Unfortunately, this habit usually includes keeping the handphone overnight, or passing it to the director. Once in a while he has been kind enough to return the handphone, but keeps the SIMkad.
Very few students make that mistake twice
Budiman
If you allow students to carry handphones to school, it would give rise to a lot of disciplinary problems. Talking during schooling times or playing games during schooling times can be prohibited but there will be students still taking their chances. Then there will people calling your daughters during school hours, this could be case of somebody maliciously passing yr daughter (or maybe son's number to someone else). Cases of blackmailing may rise, snatch theives won't have to venture far, just hanging out at the school gate would be enough. We will be putting our children under unnecessssary risk! I have traind my children to call from the public booth set up in school and it has worked for them. They don't really need a hp to call home in case of emergency!
Budiman
since i'm a form 1 student myself,i don't see the problem of bringing handphones to school,after beeing in my school,i find it rather hard to reach the phone since its at the second floor,and nobody is allowed to go to the second floor before/after school and during recess.....so that means the only thing that we can use to communicate with our parents or other ppl is via the HPs......and i heard that virus that transmit via saliva will have a chance to attack us........
thats what i think larr.......
SETIAKawan
nowadays even those primary students have hp's .... i remember the last time i had it was during college time ......
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