Best way to improve exam results? Read!!

Recently, Minister Unity Dow suggested that students should be allowed to bring and use their smart phones in school. The thought was that in this modern age such devices could be used for research and other educational pursuits.

But, of course, in reality we all know what most kids (research would likely show very near to 100%) use such phones: to Instagram and Whatsapp friends, to check their Facebook, and to look at YouTube videos. None of that will improve their exam results.

This is not even to mention the predicted increase in theft of these expensive devices (and the effect that will have on the running of a school) and the way such technology will worsen the divide between rich and poor students and all of the social problems that would arise from that.

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