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Camera Phone Rules That Don't Seem New
from the what's-the-point? dept
Over in Australia, the government is sending out a set of camera phone guidelines to schools suggesting they implement the rules to deal with the growing popularity of camera phones. The rules include banning the use of camera phones in locker rooms and bathrooms, as well as disciplining those students who use camera phones to cheat or bully other students. These are all actions that require punishment, but I'm wondering why the technology needs to be singled out. I would assume that it's pretty obvious that you shouldn't be taking pictures in a locker room or bathroom. Isn't that already "banned" by the school? Similarly, bullying or cheating seems like the type of thing that the school already has rules against. Why create a separate classification that involves the use of a camera phone. All it does is demonize the technology, rather than the action. Even worse, those who came up with the guidelines admits that there's no known problem with camera phones in schools - but they're trying to stop it before it becomes a problem. So, they're trying to solve a non-existent problem by putting in place rules that are already in place. That seems positively useless.
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Boundries
Students are always pushing boundries, it's perfectly natural behaviour. This goes double for common sense boundries that are only implicit.
It's reasonable to include specificity in the code of conduct. It helps the administrators of course, but it also protects the students from arbitrary enforcement of unclear rules.
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idiots.
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What better way to develop restraint and etiquette than by having a phone and being allowed to use it only when/how it's appropriate?
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