Taiwan has done it at last! After banning office workers from logging onto Facebook during office hours a few months ago, recently the Taiwan Education Ministry has imposed a ban onto Country Story, a currently hot Facebook game for all primary and secondary school's networks throughout Taipei, that is, the capital of Taiwan. Students and teachers were unable to connect to Facebook starting from yesterday. Undoubtedly, this ban has caused much controversy among students and teachers.
Although there has been much clamoring, the Education Ministry refuses to budge from their decision. The main reason for this ban is the fear of corrupting of immature students minds by this game. Gamers were supposed to build a farm of their own in this game, through planting crops and rearing animals. A feature of this game is, gamers are allowed and could, steal their buddies crops. The Education Ministry of Taiwan described this as an act of "dishonesty" and "theft", which would undoubtedly corrupt students minds, leading them to copy the act in reality.
Much clamoring by students and teachers
Indeed, there has been much protests from students and teachers about this ban. This is not surprising, at least, not anymore surprising than the amount of Country Story gamers in Taiwan. There were around 3.85 million Facebook users in Taiwan, and investigation has shown, that around 80% of them indulge in this game. This amounts to a total of 2.5 million gamers. Surprised?
Teachers protests that this ban would affect students learning as Facebook has already been used as a platform for teaching. Such ban would have terrible consequences, effecting the learning of students.
Besides, some students and teachers also protest that the banning of Facebook is unreasonable. Teachers say that lots of students discuss their homework through Facebook, not to mention contacting their teachers through the use of Facebook when they meet up with any problems. This ban would certainly make it harder for students to study.
The Education Ministry of Taiwan is unbudging in this decision. They say that schools requiring the use of Facebook can specially request for it from the Ministry. For others, say goodbye to Facebook, when you're at school. Personally, i think that such ban is just a waste of resources and time. Why waste time on Facebook, which is just a small part of the Internet when there are still so many harmful materials throughout the web, which is capable of polluting children's mind much more, and should be gotten rid of. Frankly, the ministry still has a long way to go, and should step up their efforts for the benefits of the sudents. The same goes for Malaysia's Education Ministry.
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