EDUCATION

Confusion as Pope John SHS students destroy their confiscated mobile phones in distress

The action is intended to discourage other students from bringing cell phones which are prohibited into the boarding school.

In a video shared on social media platform X, formerly known as Twitter, the students are seen using stones to painfully crush their phones in the full glare of their other colleagues who watched on.

In February 2020, the then Director-General of the Ghana Education Service, Professor Kwasi Opoku-Amankwa, insisted that the use of mobile phones in Senior High Schools (SHS) was not allowed, as per the rules and regulations governing second-cycle institutions.

However, in an interview on UTV, he affirmed some selected SHSs have been allowed to pilot the usage of mobile phones in their schools as a means of preparing second cycle schools into the technology landscape of assessing information.

“According to the laws of the GES, mobile phones are not allowed to be used in schools, but the level of technology in the world now has strained us to find appropriate ways of making adjustment to the already existing laws, reasons why we have started the piloting of mobile phones usage in some selected second cycle schools.”

Source: www.ghanaweb.com

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