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Debating - Class E

STUDENTS SHOULD NOT BE ALLOWED TO BRING HAND PHONES TO

SCHOOL

In this modern era, hand phones have already been the usual needs in our

daily life. Hand phones are created to make human communication easier. Besides,

hand phones nowadays are equipped with a number of useful features to improve our

knowledge and social life or to entertain certain people with its multimedia functions.

In my opinion, this kind of technology has its disadvantages for students if they bring

it to school. Then, what are the negative impacts for their learning process?

As we know, hand phones have many multimedia functions, such as music

and video player, games, and also internet connections. In fact, students become

addicted to play games simultaneously while studying at school. Some of them also

chat with their friends on Blackberry Messenger and Yahoo Messenger. They are

more interested in reading what happened outside on Twitter or Facebook than

listening to their teacher explaining how the world works. There are also some

students who share inappropriate contents to their friends. These will bring down

their concentration and mental development. Of course those negative things will

affect their school and social life.

When the students are studying at school, they are easily engaged with the

received calls and SMS from their friends. Hand phones are also several scientific

functions like calculator and converter, but students become dependent on these
features. If they have to calculate mathematics and physics formulas, they just use

their hand phones to get the answers. If they do this continuously, their intelligence

development will be delayed.

Even worse, some students who are afraid of failure in examination will use

their hand phones to find the answers on the internet and share the answers to their

friends. It is caused by the wrong conception of using hand phones. By using every

“useful” feature on their hand phones, students tend to be lazy, so that they will forget

their tasks and duties as a student. Is it enough to make a rule that students should not

be allowed to bring hand phones to school?

Alright, students will ask their parents to get new hand phones every month

and this leads to waste of money. We have to realize that not everyone can buy hand

phones. Bringing hand phones to school can also provoke crimes. It is caused by the

social inequality between the students. Students who cannot get hand phones from

their parents will do anything to have hand phones includes stealing.

In conclusion, I would like to say that bringing hand phones to school has a

number of disadvantages, such as bringing down their concentration during learning

process, making students dependent on their hand phones, causing students forget

their tasks and duties, and leading to crime activities like stealing and cheating.

For the information needs, school provides computer laboratory with e-

learning facilities, such as e-books and internet. For the communication needs

between the students and their parents, school provides free telephones in teacher

room or security room.

 Furthermore, social environment is the most important thing in creating

students’ motivation to study. When a student socializes with friends who like

studying, of course they will be motivated to study. In contrast, if a student interacts

with friends who do not like studying and just play all the time, then they will be

spoilt and lazy students.

Hand phones are built to make human communication easier, not to make

people lazy. The newest features on hand phones are not useless. We can get many

beneficial things from them like improving our knowledge and making us keep in

touch with our families and colleagues, so that please use your hand phones wisely.

References:

http://bagoezone.blogspot.com/2012/01/peraturan-baru-dilarang-membawa.html

http://ayu-lestari195.blogspot.com/2012/04/dampak-negatif-hp-bagi-para-pelajar.html

http://parkminrin123.wordpress.com/2011/05/18/karya-tulis-sederhana-handphone-

dan-pengaruhnya-terhadap-prestasi-di-sekolah/

http://pinterdw.blogspot.com/2012/03/sisi-positif-anak-tidak-membawa-hp.html