Question 3 of 1998 Section B
Your Principal has banned the use of pagers in the school.  You are the Head Prefect and have received complaints from some og your classmates about the ban.

Write an article for the school newspaper explaining why the ban has been imposed.  Provide not less than three reasons, with supporting arguements, for the ban.  
Give your article a title.

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'Ban of "beeps" in school'	
	Recently, bringing pagers to school seemed to be very popular among our schoolmates and our Principal consider this as a very severe problem and hence banned the use of pagers in school.  The Prefect Association have received a lot of complaints from our schoolmates about the ban and we are here to explain why the ban has been imposed.  Eventually, have you ever thought of the shortcomings of bringing pagers to school?  This article aims at helping you find out about the school's intention toward this problem. 
	Beeping pagers may annoy the environment of studying during the lesson time.  Our classrooms are places where we use it for learning and studying.  If, on one day, someone brings a pager back to school and forget to shut the pager down before attending class, then suddenly, the quiet classroom burst into the sounds of an pager while our teacher is teaching, the class may suddenly focus on the sound of the pager.  his schoolmates may laugh or scold at the schoolmate who brought the pager to school and distract the whole class environment of listening to the teacher and this may take a lot of time before the whole class is calmed down.  Furthermore, if a number of students bring a pager and affect the environment of studying from time to time, it will not only affect the teacher's impression to the whole class while teaching but also affect the schoolmates academic studies.
	Pagers are expensive.  No matter how schoolmates think whether the word "expensive" is appropriate for the cost of a pager.  It does cost us or our parents money.  There may be cases in which our schoolmates accidentally drop down the pager on the floor and another schoolmates may somehow pick it up and commit a crime.  This may lead you to serious penalties and can harm your future life.  Undeniably, a lot of schoolmate know that stealing is not the right thing to do.  But think of the owner of the pager, if he lost the pager, he will feel unwell until he finds the pager back,  If he cannot find it back, his "unwell" may lead to a big distraction during class.  Also, he might be scolded by his parents after losing the pager and this scolding not only will bring unhappiness among the family, but also a waste of a large amount of money for the whole family.  In order not to let students commit crime, the Principal therefore banned the use of pagers in school.
	Pagers are useless in school.  Pagers are used in society to page people when necessary.  Bringing a pager into the school complex is useless because there is in no reason that anyone will have to find a schoolmate and hence page them due to this reason.  If a teacher needs to find you, he or she may just go into your classroom and find you easily.  Furthermore, if there is in any case that your parent want to find you, they can call the school and find you directly.  What is the point of paging you and then calling them back after getting the page?  It is a waste of time and also a waste of money to pay the paging company.  Undeniably, our school's telecommunication network is fully suitable for students to use to find their parents.  
	We understand that schoolmates may have to bring a pager to school due to the request from their parents.  If their parents request this to the school, I am sure that our school will accept it and permit their child to bring a pager to school.  However, we strongly believe that should you need any help from the school to make a desperate phone call home, our school officers will be glad to help you solve the problem.    If you want to express your opinion and enquiries, our school will be glad to here from you and explain to you more.     I truly hope that schoolmates understand the situation of the school and make an effort not to bring their pagers to school!

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