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| Cellphone rules flouted in schools |
| Ankita, a student of Modern School at Delhi's Barakhamba road, is hooked on to her cellphone like many others her age.
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| INDIA
, 2-August-2007
2:20:14 AM |
| With crime in the city on the rise, parents of school-going children feel it is necessary to give them mobile phones so they can be tracked when outside their homes.
Ankita, a student of Modern School at Delhi's Barakhamba road, is hooked on to her cellphone like many others her age.
''When I take my phone to school, I put it in a cover and write my name on a chit and deposit it with my class teacher,'' said Ankita.
Following the infamous MMS scandal in a public school in Delhi in 2004, schools are wary of allowing students to carry cell phones.
''It's a distraction, children don't need it. It's not college where they can bunk a class. Here their schedule is very fixed. There's no time for them to use a phone. Here, they'll be misusing the facility and unnecessarily get distracted,'' said Suman Nath, Principal, Tagore International School.
Technology scandals
With the rise of the cellphone culture in schools, there has also been a rise of crime involving technology among young people.
A scandal at a school party doesn't anymore remain within the four walls of the school but is passed on to the world outside and even posted on the Internet.
Children are also regularly caught flouting rules. ''My friends who bring their cell phones to school, sit on the last bench all day, messaging their friends or cousins,'' said Veejal, a student.
So how do children handle the peer pressure?
''No direct force is there, but when you're sitting together with friends, they show off saying, I have an N-75, do you? So of course you feel like, I should have one as well,'' said Vimal, a student.
There are some others who refuse to give in to pressure.
''The fault lies with the parents, not the children who are going to the market to buy all these expensive phones for the child,'' said Alpana Poddar, mother of a student.
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