Do you have your own mobile phone? Where do you usually use it, at home, on the bus or in the street while walking? Anyway, schools are certainly no longer a place to use it.
Earlier this year, a national ban(禁令)on mobile phone use was passed . According to it, both primary and middle school students are not allowed to bring mobile phones to school. If they have to, they need to get their parents and the schools permission(许可). Besides, all phones must be kept by the teacher during the class.
According to the Ministry of Education, the main aim of the ban is to protect students eyesight and. prevent them from getting addicted (上瘾) to the Internet and video games.
In2009, China had 175 million Internet users under the age of18, with 74% having their own mobile phones, according to a report By the China Internet Network information Center last year. The report found mobile phone users in this group used their phones mostly for online learning, listening to music and playing games.
The Ministry of Education also says that teachers are not allowed to ask students to finish homework on mobile phones. Schools should set up more public pay phones and find other ways of talking to parents.
The new ban appears to be widely supported. In a survey on Weibo, 54% of more than 1900 people who took part in the survey said they believed it was unnecessary for school children to take mobile phones to school; more than a quarter wanted a more flexible policy(灵活的政策) with 20% saying mobile phones should be allowed in school .
What's your opinion? What good do you think the ban has brought to you?
