Regulating Internet Cafes near Schools: A Position Paper DOCX

Title	Regulating Internet Cafes near Schools: A Position Paper
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Regulating Internet Cafes near Schools: A Position Paper By: Bernadette Marie Hontiveros Internet have a very important role on our daily lives. This helps us to communicate to our love ones easier and faster. Internet helps us to gain and spread factual informations easier and many more. But is it really helpful if we will regulate or put an internet cafe near our schools? I believe that setting an internet café near school will put us on more risks. It's obvious that it will cause many problems especially for the students, because some of them are not responsible enough to do or decide for some serious things. I have some reasons why I'm not in favor of having an internet café near schools. First of all is, this will increase loitering of students. They will skip classes because they can easily go to the internet café nearby. They will engage to online games such as Defense of The Ancients (DOTA), Crossfre and many more and this will result to poor learning. The second one is budget shortage, because of an extra expenses for playing this games they will have a budget shortage. Budget shortage will merely afect the students' health because the budget for their snacks and food will just go for some internet purposes that's not really important. We all know that young people nowadays are more expose to internet, then internet café near schools will increase cyber bullying cases, so as trash talking to other people and this acts will promote bad manners. Next is time shortage, instead of focusing on their studies students will put so much time for playing games, chatting and posting through social medias and this will result them of having poor grades. And how about the students that resides far from the school? If there is an internet café near the school parents would think that their children is still at school but in-fact they're on the internet café for some reasons. They will go home late and unfortunately we all know that there's no place safer than home, so what if something bad will happen to the students? Parents will blame the school and worst we can put the children's life at risk. These are just some of the disadvantages of having an internet café near schools. Students are also not allowed to go to internet café during class hours and they must not play games on internet café near the school because it will likely show that schools or school in-charge are the ones encouraging the students to engage on abusive use of internet. So what's the sense of putting up an internet café near the school? For me government ofcials who are in-charge on our security are the ones who should implement policies for these matters. So for the internet café owners who violate the rules should have sanctions. First ofense is (1) week suspension of their operating hours. And for the following ofense their internet café should be close right away. Internet café who implements and follow policies should have a reward worth complete set of a computer. Hence, it's better to think of our own safety and especially the students' or children's safety. Say no to internet café near schools....