Mobile phone use has become widespread in Benin since 1996, with over 10 million subscribers by 2016. However, their use by students poses challenges, as phones frequently ring and distract during classes. Students also use phones to cheat on exams by taking pictures of answers or sending messages. Educators have implemented rules against phone use in class, but regulating mobile phones in schools remains an ongoing issue.

1. The mobile phone, a disruptive tool for children in
Benin
Presented by AJAVON Samuel

2. MOBILE PHONE: A REVOLTING CONCEPT
 Introduced in Benin around the year 96, the mobile
phone has become as essential today as television
and is a tool of multifunctional utility in the daily life of
the Beninese. The number of mobile telephone
network subscribers (MTN, MOOV, GLO,
LIBERCOM) increased from 11,557,357 in 2015 to
10,923,726 by the end of 2016, with a teledensity of
98.44% as of December 31 2016. High school and
college students are counted among these millions of
users. But over the years mobile phones have proved
to be a truly dangerous instrument because of the
many opportunities for fraud they offer in schools

3.  The students of the lycées and colleges of Cotonou
make the mobile phone a privileged means of
communication. In addition, there is the possibility of
distractions with the functions of listening to music
(video or audio), radio, taking pictures.Beyond these
assets, students use them for other specific
educational needs. From the outset, some evoke the
traffic accidents that are frequent in our cities. "My
parents bought me the laptop so that in case of
aggression, accidents or other emergencies, I can
call them," suggests some students in 3rd in high
schoolSome parents say that the mobile phone they
gave their children is used to reach them when
needed.

4.  The students of the lycées and colleges of Cotonou
make the mobile phone a privileged means of
communication. In addition, there is the possibility of
distractions with the functions of listening to music
(video or audio), radio, taking pictures.Beyond these
assets, students use them for other specific
educational needs. From the outset, some evoke the
traffic accidents that are frequent in our cities. "My
parents bought me the laptop so that in case of
aggression, accidents or other emergencies, I can call
them," suggests some students in 3rd in high
schoolSome parents say that the mobile phone they
gave their children is used to reach them when
needed.

5. "The phenomenon of the laptop has become a real scourge
that disrupts enormously the courses. When laptops ring in
the classroom, it interrupts the thread of the teacher's ideas
and distracts other students"

6.  The SMS received in the class retains the attention of the student and make him
lose part of the explanations and the course taught by the teacher, "indignant
some professor of French to the Lycée. It is also the conviction of a mathematics
teacher at the college "Nokué" when he testifies that he had to resort to the
police and one of the mobile phone networks to detect a pupil who regularly
paired him, Only to disrupt its course, because it does not like the matter it
dispenses. The censor of this college specifies that there are usually three
scenarios when students' notebooks sound: "Either he forgot to turn off the
laptop and it surprises him in class or the student likes Not the one who does the
course and he wants to disrupt it. Finally, there are laptops that even, under
vibrating disturb ". Moreover, the mobile phone is sometimes used by students
as a means of fraud during evaluations and examinations.This is at least what
the director of Abomey Calavi said, who said he excluded two students who
cheated with their mobile phones during a mathematics assignment.The other
misdemeanor of the laptop is the increasingly perceptible influence of the SMS
vocabulary in the students' writing. According to a professor of history and
geography "students, by dint of abbreviating words for speed and to save their
credits by SMS, also write in the same way in homework, without even realizing.
This contributes to lowering their editorial quality and consequently their level in
French ".

7.  Games, ringtones and music, pictures and videos that students record
on their laptops often take precedence over lessons, reading, in a
nutshell, studies making the laptop their faithful companion.On the other
hand, a student applying for the BAC, says that "some people,
especially boys, take your number and while you are in class or when
you study, they send you SMS or call you bother you ". Teachers, heads
of institutions, parents, students, in short, all the actors in the world of
education are unanimous in recognizing that students use their mobile
phones for unavowable purposes.For his part, some student parents,
think it is difficult to charge parents of students because children are
what they are. In this he says, "with laptops and cybercafés, they are
able to record images and videos not recommendable.Another parent of
a student accuses the parents because he says, "instead of buying
single mobile phones, just to call or send SMS, they offer their children,
sophisticated mobile phones with readers Audio and video, and
cameras. "A professor who asked for anonymity, says that some
teachers receive SMS messages from their students to offer them sex in
exchange for good grades. In addition, there are cases of theft of mobile
phones in institutions where teachers and students are victims.

8. AT EACH ESTABLISHMENT ITS REGULATIONS
 Uncontrolled use of the mobile phone is a danger and a threat to
students. For this reason, regulations could be used to "restore
order" in educational institutions.Unfortunately, in the general
rules of procedure of secondary schools in Benin, there is no
specific passage for the use of mobile phones in schools. The
texts refer only to the prohibition of "the use of apparatus other
than those authorized for the purposes of the course or
duties".Nevertheless, some institutions have taken precautions
and forbidden cell phones in the classroom.Some censors point
out, "We are primarily educators and our role is to educate and
educate children and not to punish them harshly," he said. The
sanctions range from simple warnings to confiscation of the
mobile phone for one, two, three weeks or a quarter.

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