Some schools have restricted the use of mobile phones. Is this a positive development or a negative one Give reasons for your answer & include any examples from your own knowledge or experience

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of the schools in India, i.e., the country that I hail from, bar the

use

of mobile

phones

within the

school

premises. I firmly believe that

this

is a positive development in the right direction with multiple reasons to support my claim.

Firstly

,

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of mobiles inside the

school

can be extremely distracting for many

students

- the ones using it as well as those who are not.

Students

may not fully concentrate on the pedagogy or the content of what is being taught to them.

This

is because, from a practical lens, there may be a slight possibility of

students

being able to

use

mobiles from underneath their study desks in a classroom when teachers turn their backs to write on the boards or engage in another activity.

For instance

, when I was in the 12th grade

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when a few of my classmates brought their mobiles to

school

. Unsurprisingly, they made many frivolous and perfidious excuses to

use

their

phones

under the pretext of leaving the classes for going to the washroom. If

this

sort of deception and misrepresentation is permitted,

students

are likely to go astray and

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focus in the process.

Secondly

, ostentatious

use

of mobile

phones

by

students

many augment the wedge between the haves and the have-nots. There is a huge digital divide, especially in India, between the affluent and the destitute. Naturally,

this

gap should not be made palpable in an educational institution, where the primary aim of the authorities is to inculcate good morals, values and principles amongst the youth. More often than not, young minds tend to get easily influenced and moved by the conduct of those around them.

Hence

, if

students

witness their contemporaries using high-end, expensive or luxurious mobile

phones

beside them

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when they themselves

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afford to, they may

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harbour

feelings of resentment, jealousy and hate.

This

ought to disrupt the healthy environment of growth and learning at

school

.

Thirdly

, research has shown that overuse of mobile

phones

tends to have an astronomical impact on one's mental health and overall well-being. If people, particularly minors, are exposed to the

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transmitted by

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mobile

phones

at all hours of the day, their general

temprament

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temperament

is likely to be adversely impacted. Simply put, it is imperative for

students

to get the much-needed break from the digital world of technology,

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, and artificial intelligence, at least at a time when their location - i.e., a

school

- merits their unwavering attention. In the absence thereof,

students

are inevitably going to be more inclined to wander off in all directions that they can lay their eyes on, over

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social media. In conclusion, since mobile

phones

can be highly disruptive devices that hamper the

students

' focus, social interaction, as well as mental health, the restriction placed on their usage by schools is indeed a positive development.