Italy bans cellphones in classrooms

With almost every cellphone these days featuring music ringtones, video cameras and text messaging, school officials in Italy have apparently had enough of all this mobile nonsense. The country has taken the rather drastic (or reasonable, depending on how you look at it) measure of banning schoolchildren from using mobile phones in class. In other words, all those class-disrupting ringtones and incognito cam and video shoots will now banished from all institutes of public education -- and with punishments for breaking the ban including phone confiscation all the way up to bans from taking final exams, the deterrent factor is reasonably high here.

[(Unverified) Posted Mar 22nd 2007 8:39AM]

Italy, the European model country for time efficiency and prosper economics, has found that the entire blame belongs to ringing classroom mobiles. Now, I am a faculty lecturer in Prague (of course not Italy). I teach computer networks, and in my classroom students are allowed to have their mobiles switched on (mine also), they can leave the class in order to answer a call and they can return, too.

If in the whole Italy one single of these mobile calls made in classrooms everywhere saves just one human life (maybe a grandmother that fell on the stairs), than the idea to have them on pays off. If that person dies, the people who took this BRILLIANT IDEA should be blamed.

Anyway, lots of politicians have the trend to prove that on Earth there is no intelligent life.