Mobile phones in schools are becoming a serious problem, with students accessing everything except education. This is why a Ghana school has come up with an effective solution: destroy them by fire. The Kwanyako secondary school is planning to take 24 confiscated phones outside and immolate them in full public view. For those expecting uproar, they have the full backing of the local parent teacher association.
Ghana Education Services forbid the use of cellphones on school grounds, but the punishment isn’t quite as clear cut as it appears. Because it’s a boarding school many students use the phones in the evening, and while the headmaster complains that they do this at the expense of studying it’s not the same as interrupting class. Especially when you consider that there isn’t any other way for students to contact their families yet (with plans to install payphones having only just begun.)
Casting the communications devices to the flames still sends an extremely clear message – all we have to do is convince cinemas to use the same strategy. Because, just as in Sun Tzu, one of the most effective strategies is fire.
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