Mindspeaker Returns

Teachers being filmed. Happy slapping incidents. Phew! I’m glad I’m no longer a full-time teacher!

I wouldn’t want to deal with having my teaching methods scrutinised by millions of viewers all over the world. I wouldn’t want to deal with having to discipline pupils who beat up one another for fun. I’m just glad I no longer have to do these things anymore. I just teach kids how to use the PC and if they misbehave, I just threaten to stop them from using their PCs. This would generally shut them the hell up heheh…

Personally I feel that handphones HAVE to be banned in schools. There is absolutely no bloody need to have kids who hardly know how to cross the road properly to be lugging around handphones. Parents would argue that it would allow them to contact their kids during emergencies. Its funny how these very same parents forgot that when they were in school…their parents would call the office if there was an emergency. The school clerk would then notify the form teacher who would then bring the pupil to the office to call their parents back. No big deal. I don’t see why the kids of today can’t do the same. School offices still have telephones ok.  

There is simply no need for handphones in school. Here are the reasons why:

1. Kids do not know how to take care of their things. Pencils, erasers, wallets, water bottles go missing on a daily basis. So what would stop kids from losing their handphones too?
2. Teachers would have a headache trying to figure out who had ‘accidentally’ taken the handphones or find out where the handphones have been misplaced. And they have to do that while trying to coax the kid who’s terrified that he or she had lost their handphones.
   Kid: Mummy’s going to be angry with me. HOW?!
   Teacher (to himself/herself): Your pasal ah!
3. Kids would end up using their handphones for every other reason other than to call their parents, such as:
   - Taking photos of their friends who HAVE to show the PEACE sign and frame up their faces with their fingers.
   - Take photos of their friends in the toilet (this really happened ok!)
   - SMS one another. They’d cover their handphones with their bags under the table. They don’t realise that its obvious what they’re doing.
   - Video their teachers.
   - Video happy slapping incidents.

As such, I think that parents should forego this luxury item for their kids. It does more harm than good. If you really feel the need to buy handphones and give them to someone, pass them to me. Then I can open a handphone shop.