The trends of children’s dependency on their smart phones, from the Front Page Sections, translated…
“Taking away his cell phone, was like, taking away his life”, the helpless mother told in the phones, and, she’d, worked hard, consoling her own fifth grader to study hard, to not just play on the cell phones after school, and she’d received this as the replies, “The rest of my classmates all called me a freak, that I’d not get my cell phone until now, and besides, the class had agreed, that we won’t do our homework from here on out, it’s not like the teachers can do anything about it………”
Hearing the teaching experiences of several elementary school instructors sharing. Teacher A said, “at the start of the school year, I’d always told the children, to turn off their cell, to keep it inside their backpacks; one day, a parent came to me angrily, and demanded, said that something urgent happened in the home, and she couldn’t, reach her child, and why did we, the teachers have to bother so much?
Teacher B said, I’d used a drawer, asked the children, to head to the back of the class, and, dropped their cell phones that were turned off inside, and to pick them up before they go home. And the parents called to say, “The teacher is such a dictator, if my son’s phone gets stolen, you will pay for it!
and these, are all those kiddies, still in the elementary school years! Photo from online…
C said, I have a simpler reminder, telling the kids, that they’re in school to learn that they shouldn’t play with their cell phones in class! And, the principal called me out, said that the parents were, protesting, how I’d, neglected the basic human rights of their young.
In the schools, I’d often seen a group of students, gathering around, playing on their cell phones, and, there are many who’d, played while in class, as the teachers were, teaching too. Cell phones, to this group of new age children, seemed to have, become, a necessity. The high-tech gadgets surely, can help children with the search of information they’d needed to find, but, if the phones were used to socialize, to play games, and, the dependencies children developed, for their cellphones, far exceeds what the parents and teachers told them to use them for, it’d turned into, this huge problem between the lessons that children and parents needed to learn, to master.
Some parents were strict, and, set up good role models, reduced the time they’d used their cell phones at home, and, disconnected the internet services, but, the children are fluid and intelligent, and they’d started, finding the free wi-fi hotspots like in the malls or the public places, and this is really, worrisome.
aren’t you, alarmed yet??? Not my photo…
In the interactions with peers, cell phone is a vital medium, which children used, to establish friendship, and be accepted in a group, and, it can, affect how a child is, accepted or rejected by a group of friends s/he wanted to be a part of. The parents need a rational head, and set a better example, to empathize the needs of their own young, and select the right kinds of cell phones for their own young. Especially, the parents need to respect the school instructors, to comply with them, and so, cell phones can be used, as a tool, to help the children grow up more responsibly and more completely.
And so, you see, how hard it is, to work as teachers today, because there are, so many, AWFUL and SELF-CENTERED parents, and, as we can all imagine, how children raised, by these, self-centered parents will also turn out, and this, is where the school teachers come in, to try to exert some small amounts of influences on your children’s behaviors, and yet, you’re, making it harder, for the teachers, to do their work, by calling out to children’s BASIC “human” rights to take calls from you in class??? Give ME a break here!!!
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