Desperate Dan phones home…
Date posted: 10-11-09Save me from self; please someone. Save me. Today I was subjected to a half an hour diatribe about the benefits of banning mobile phones – by the head of technology. Words fail me. They still do. It’s just a bloody phone, it’s not a bomb, or a knife, or a gun. They can’t get high on it, or use it to take someone’s eye out, they can’t really actually use it cheat in exams. In fact it’s quite good at entertaining them with mindless computer games during breaks, which saves my ears from the constant playground screaming and yelling we used to endure, before technology woke the hell up and saved us all.
And now, Mr Technology himself has suggested that we need to take them away from the pupils. Clever, really clever, and forward thinking. Great.
November 18th, 2009 at 7:46 am
Thing is, I actually reckon banning them works sometimes. Banning phones made a massive difference to a school down the road from us. It used to be plagued by dodgy ‘youths’ hanging around the gates, which no one could get rid of. Turned out some little scrote would pick a fight with someone and then call his bigger, uglier, scarier mates to come and ‘finish it off’. Banning mobile phones meant they couldn’t do this. It stopped it basically altogether.
But a teacher at the school did tell me it made lunchtime more noisy so you have to weigh it up I guess – the sound of fighting, or the sound of err, yelling. Hmmm.