Mixed reactions have trailed a video of schoolteachers destroying phones seized from students.
As captured in the now viral video shared on X on Wednesday, the teachers of the yet-to-be identified secondary school brought out the seized phones before the students on the assembly ground.
One of the school staff would proceed with the public destruction of the phones as he smashed hammer on screen of the gadgets.
The phones appeared to have been seized from the school’s senior students preparing for the West African Secondary School Certification Examination (WASSCE) as the staff who recorded the video claimed it distracts the students during their preparation for the examination.
“Use of phone is a distraction to WAEC students. Highly prohibited” The staff wrote in a caption attached to the video.
While the usage of phone by students during school hours is widely prohibited across several Nigerian secondary schools, the public destruction of the mobile gadgets had however sparked mixed reactions from netizens.
Some netizens commended the school management for confiscating the phones but condemned their destruction.
“Very interesting indeed, but out of all the punitive options they have, why choose destruction?”@OdogwuGNR
“This is all shades of wrong These phones cost alot of money Why destroy it when it can be seized and returned after the end of the school session”@onlineguru_
“When the students start to corner and mending those staff members of the school, no body should put mouths sha”@fredokas1
“Na wa o… instead of guiding these students, na to turn their phones to suya dem sabi. Parents go buy phone with sweat, school go use anger scatter am. Discipline no be destruction na.”@leeleeofafrica
“During WAEC.. same school will still encourage the use of phones .. To get good grades and still bring out the school’s name in good form Nigeria has the worst educational system”@Water_4_Godwins
“If the rule says no phone in the school premises, then student should keep their phone at home, simple”@NdukweJulius92
“Isn’t this too extreme? You can seize the phone and return later. But destroy it? As a parent you will produce another phone for my ward.”@Funmilina_
“Is this what You all learnt from bible and churches and some of them are women leaders in church, their so many ways You can correct them to punish them and maybe after the term is over. You can hand them the phones back but not destroying their parents hard earn money. We’ll all of them is discipline so others can learn too.”@Talkgriezman
“Collet the phone and give them back after WACE foolish people”@blckseun
