Over a year ago now, my school decided to ban mobile phones. For the past 18 months, they have made us hand our phones in everyday. This was because a few students had misused them during school time. What I struggle to understand is this: why should we all suffer because of the actions of a small group? Couldn't just those pupils have their phones banned from school, and the rest of us be allowed to continue as normal?
Recently, my school have decided to do this in another area: changing room access. There were a few incidences in the changing rooms involving a small group of pupils. Instead of punishing those people alone, they decided to lock all changing rooms for the whole school day except for PE and before and after school. This limits all pupils access to lockers. Again, the whole school have been punished when only a few people miss behaved.
These are not the only examples. We do not have such a wide choice of break time snacks because some students were eating too many. Couldn't they keep the selection the same and just tell us we could only have one item each? We cannot listen to music on the coach going to school trips because some students would take photos and go on Facebook. When will the school realise that it is just not fair to punish the innocent because of the actions of others?
Does your school do this? Tell me your thoughts on the situation.
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