Porn on mobiles in UAE classrooms: Teachers

Mobile phones confiscated during a class in an Abu Dhabi school. (Supplied)

Published Sunday, December 04, 2011

By Staff

School boys at some private schools in Abu Dhabi are defying existing official rules by bringing their mobile phones into class to take shots of their teachers and publicising them.

Some of them have gone further by watching obscene films on their handsets and chat with friends outside.

In a report from the capital, the Dubai-based Arabic language daily Emirat Alyoum said many school boys at private schools had been caught by their teachers using mobile phones in class and quoted some teachers as saying these violations have contributed to reducing students’ class performance.

The paper quoted an unnamed official from the Abu Dhabi Education Council as saying students at all schools are now allowed to bring their mobile handsets into class and that it was the responsibility of teachers and managements to stop this.

“Many school boys bring advanced mobile phones which are more expensive than our own mobile phones. We have caught some of them while chatting or sending pictures while in class,” said Ammar Qassim, a mathematics teacher at an Abu Dhabi-based private school.

“Some of them use these phones to film teachers and publicise these films on their handsets or online in violations of existing school regulations.”

The paper quoted Abdull Al Hammadi, a history teacher, as saying most school boys, including children, now give too much time for their mobile phones inside and outside class, adding that this had contributed to “diverting their attention from lessons and downgrading their educational performance.”

“Many students have been caught watching pornographic films on their mobile handsets in class. Others were found to be sending texts and chatting with their friends outside school. Some students exchanged pictures inside class.”

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