Mobiles shouldn’t be used by kids , is that the old-generation’s excuse for banning mobiles in campuses?.In UK and USA , they are giving cell phones to kids of age 4 !.I’m not telling that it’s a good practice to do that because there are radiation problems and heated arguments related to that are going on even now everywhere around the globe.I don’t think that any new generation person will actively agree that mobile shouldn’t be used at all by people.Because they know that it will come handy at certain situations.
On August 7th 2008 , I had Object Oriented Programming exam and I was nervous as usual because of my habit of opening my book for the first time ,after the study leave started ,on the Exam day morning.And there I was sitting in the exam [ With my phone switched off in my pocket! this is what I did wrong
] hall thinking how it’s going to workout , worried about my paper and re-assuring myself that it will be alright.Then comes the voice of the invigilator asking us to keep our mobiles on the desk.And all of us who had the mobile with them kept it there ,thinking that she will return it after the exam ,like it’s supposed to!.And then after taking everyone’s cell she is telling us that , “I’m going to give these to principal now and all of you can collect it from him “.Who thought that was coming!!
.
You can ruin anyone’s exam by psychologically breaking them , in between the exam, where that person can’t even move without the staring glance by the invigilator and that’s what happened here.She actually managed to create this un necessary tension in us even before giving the question paper to us and a big THANKS for that , lady!.And the best part is that , in our exams invigilator will be from our own college and then this kind of stuff is happening , that’s what makes this all stuff stupid.
After the exam when we enquired her , she asked us to go to the Examination Cell , which is in charge of the Examination stuffs, and when we asked there ,they asked us to wait till the answer papers are packed and all those urgent matters are finished.So we stood there for about 1 and half hours , some of us including me didn’t even have lunch because of this , Then they asked us to meet another officer in our college and told us that they gave the cell phones to him .Then when we went and enquired him , he asked us to write an apology letter saying that we wont repeat this “illegal” act of bringing “switched off” phones in the exam hall
.We all hurried to write an apology letter and when we gave it to him , he tells us to wait [ " Now what !! " ??? ] and then after some “waiting”
he told us that he gave the phone to the person with authority [ I'm not naming the post or the name of the person here ,
] .Then we all virtually ran to that person and he was telling things like
- “We will take necessary actions on this ”
- “We will review this and will be submitting your details to university for bringing the cell phones inside the exam hall” .
- Trying to scare us huh ?.. We were trying to get back our phone after skipping lunch for this and were standing there in the college without any way to inform our parents about this and then he is telling us that he is going to give compliant to university ?. WTF actually happened here?. Did we try to copy or do any kind of malpractice with the cell phone?. Did any one of us even plan to do such thing with our mobile? NO!!
.I can assure anyone that none of us had any plan to do such thing with mobile!.We aren’t honestly that much technically advanced to do things like cheating with iPod Player . Surely , there are possibilities for things like that to happen but in our case our phones were switched off and we weren’t certainly hiding them in our “hidden parts” for cheating .
- And aren’t we studying in this college.We didn’t come here from elsewhere?.They are supposed to understand us ,I believed so at least ! [ Until NOW! ]
- “I don’t want to hear a word from you people ! Write down any kind of apology you are planning to tell and give it to the principal ” [ who was absent on that day
].
- That was straight away blocking us from explaining what actually happened.He must be thinking that the invigilator caught the mobiles while checking us and he wasn’t even ready to hear what we were saying to him.
Mobiles like anything else can be misused but that doesn’t mean that it will be always misused by everyone.Those who misuse will keep on doing it whatever means authorities take because they are having problems with authority.And why do we ,those of us who never did anything like that, have to suffer for this kind of matters ?. I have read in some news paper that Kerala Government is going to ban mobile phones in all the campuses [ both students and officials ].Isn’t this barbaric stuff to do with the young generation?. They should be enforcing law to prevent misuse of the mobile phones by people and instead of that they are preventing people from using it. As far as I know neither Kerala Government nor The Government of India has made it strict for the telecom companies to have tracking equipments installed in their customer base.And the best part is that BSNL doesn’t have that facility while many private companies can track the particular mobile number if they want to.If they want to actively curb all the anti-social stuffs people are doing with mobiles they should be making these kind of important decisions.Instead of this the government authorities are spreading news like ‘they are able to track each and every message transferred through bluetooth
!.
You can read the news report about the Great Kerala government planning to ban mobiles in schools [ even in +2 !! ] here. And they are saying that
“The move comes close on the heels of a girl student attempting suicide after she was allegedly strip-searched in class to check if she was carrying a cell phone”.
***???? Who asked them to strip search and what made them to do so ?. they themselves are the cause of the whole thing.”
“What we had till now is merely a government order stating that mobile phones can’t be used in schools. But now we will introduce new laws to this effect, banning the use of mobiles in all schools,” state home minister told the assembly.”
Aaha! that’s the point , the government gave the permission to check for the mobiles ! and that’s what caused this whole trouble, strip checking a girl? Can you believe it? and they are again attributing this as misusing of mobile!!! .Nice work!
What all stupid stuffs are we supposed to live with ,unnecessarily ?.
PS: I will be posting updates about my mobile after enquiring the college about why they are keeping it with them un necessarily