Is the Internet good or bad for junior and senior high school students? Why?

It's hard to say. If the child has great self-decipline, internet is a very good way for him to study. But if the situation is just on the other side, maybe you should control his using of the net.

Dear jisir, I come to meet another princess who is interested in network. Below is our conclusion drawn. Basically internet is good for school children. It serves as a modern source for accessing knowledge and information which they couldn’t find in the school library. It also provides them means of amusement and social communication. However, nowadays school children tend to indulge in net surfing until they ignore their study and upset the daily routine. Very often we find school children lingering at the cyber café until late in the evening. I did visit the cyber café occasionally when my pc was sent for repairing. I saw almost every youngster there were engrossed in games and a few were chatting. I saw none of them was using the facility for studying. These young people are confined in a limited space wasting their precious time which they are supposed to spend for studying. Another thing to be worried about is the undesirable cultures, like immorality and violence. It is also a pity to see the youngster to keep themselves farther and farther away from nature, leaving behind poor eyesight and man other associated problems. Happy posting and bye.

internet is bad for junior and senior high school students because student spend more time playing games than searching information on books.they waste their time and energy on internet.it is also bad for the health of the student to spend long hours surfing the net at night.

It is really a complex social question. In my point of view, we can neither say internet is good or bad for students' living or studying. It depends mostly to their self-discipline. And, I believe the government or the authorities concerned is bound to take charge of the internet management in their way. We can not say internet games r harm to students. They sometimes make one relax and feel a lot of fun. As you said ,students spend their money on their QQ space/garden/pet or other games need point card, if they r self-controlled enough they can earn money by that. Can anyone say that doing business by his own ability of games is bad ?What r we living for?Maybe I'm going too far ,but in all ,I think the authorities should do something to avoid students spending too much time on Internet no matter he/she's looking for information by internet or wasting time on games.

I have 2 nieces and one nephew. Two are in high school and one in grade school. The Internet can give certain disadvantages because instead of researching for their projects, they are doing something instead. Their mom have caught them countless times doing other things on the Internet. My nieces are very fond of the Friendster website and their mom is a little worried because they tend to make friends with total male strangers, older than they are. But then the Internet is a vast resource of information that the kids can benefit from. I guess parental guidance should be imposed more when our kids are surfing the Net.

i think, no. it really depends on a person. and how he/she discipline him'her/self.

Hello williamjisir, Thanks for your post.I think this matter is really hard to deal with and should be dealt intelligently by the school authorities . Instead of trying to convince and restrict the students I feel with the help of local area government/club members/ the school authorities should approach the cyber cafe owners straight and should request them not to allow any school students to sit in a computer more than one hour everyday, unless that student is permitted an extra hour signed by the hostel authorities for any sort of computer projects.I think it will work if done with proper planning.Thanks again.

I think they all can learn a lot from the internet. But they could also can learn something bad from it. Nowadyas students need the internet to get the required infomation. BUt like you said, some of them wrongly used the internet.

I think it depends on. It depends on how people use it. We can't say the knife is bad, because we need it to cut the meats and vegetables. It is a useful tool. However, if people use it in a wrong way, it can also hurt others. The internet is the same. But I still think it's good for students to take advantage of it. If I had internet when I was a student, be sure I would learn more than today. The study material is a lot and it is so easy to improve your knowledge via the net.

I think its all based on the teen rather then any base model. I was on the computer a lot in high school and junior high. Oddly enough it did allow the chance of my grades going down but so did walking outside and spending entire days with my friends. On a positive note I am now in the IT field and love every day of it. At this point being on a computer and internet almost always helps my career, wether I am playing a game or tring the newest OS. In my view, IT will always be up to the parents to teach self displine and give any child the tools to learn and understand the reactions to there actions. But in a world that puts more stake in video games and other things causing whole negtaive happenings then spending time with there kids. Who knows what will happen.

It is good for them to expand their knowledge about everything. do their research and projects through the net..

yes this is the big problem of the teachers and the students nowadays. i am college student and i am addicted to internet although i am using my own computer in my room so to minimize my expenses but i think for being addicted this stuff will ruin you studies and of course your future. i always go to school lack of sleep i don't listen the attentively instead wondering what happen to my online stuff. it's very annoying that your grade in school start declining because i am the number of the class but because of internet now i am not.

The internet is good and bad in same time.In their study the internet will help them very much.We cannot blame to that.Most of the students want internet for their projects in classes.But the misuse is the problem.It is not a problem with internet only.In every cases the misuse makes problems.If we can see our friends or childrens addicted and if it will affect their study,then we must have to stop it.Thanks

Hi, williamjisir! Very good topic to discuss! I think everything has its two sides. It depends upon how the teenagers use the Internet and what's their attitude towards the Internet! If they are self-desciplined and use the Internet in a proper way such as for searching useful information, reading news reports, posting on forums to discuss with others, Internet really can bring a lot of benefits for them. but if they log onto the Internet only for chatting, games and other entertainment activities, even become addicted to them, it will be very harmful to their health and study achievements.

I agree with you. It is very useful for students who use it in good purpose. But that is not going to happen in most of the cases. It is very normal for them to get attracted to the bad side of internet. It completely ruins them. They find interest here and neglect studies. It should be used with limited allowance. That is not also always possible to keep track on.

Hi ,williamjisir! This really is an anlther the problem of the many penple headache! The network really has its mysterious place. The metwork achiered the many people to also ruin a lot of persons. A lot of student, even family the member addicts separately with the network. Held up the education,didn't family. Is already a social phenomena that can't changy. We are very helpless .Only the friend of the few consciousness knows how to handle it .Connect the net with each other actually to what we bring is? Have the larghter, also have the tears! You think

It's been in debate for years. I think it depends on the person who use it. If they use it for bad purposes, internet will bring negative effect and vice versa. Teachers must direct the students to use internet for good purpose. But teachers are not the only one to blame. It's how the students can make the good of internet out of it. With all the online games on the internet, it's easier for students to get into this kind of things. Our society must have pro-active acts to prevent such things by not allowing under age students to access online games from the net cafe, unless they are above 18 (usually college/uni students). They are considered mature enough and able to make decision and self responsible enough about their future. I'm saying this it won't just eliminate the internet negative effect to students, but at least there are some prevention act being made rather than to watch our young generations are being impacted negatively by internet.

Without the Internet, it's really hard to go to school and get your work done. I'm not saying everyone has to have one at home, but at least have access to it. Yes some kids do take advantage of it and let their grades slip.

as you say, this issue has two sides, we can not point to which is right or wrong simply. i accept about your opinion, leading and helping the junior to a bright way is a better and obligatory step, but the problems we must face is to originate some up-and-coming movement, only do this ,we could has possibility to turn the scale.

It is bad in a sense if they cut classes to do the online games and programs. Better allow these kids to use computer or internet connections if they will be doing projects, researches, or assignments. And internet connection should serve as a references and not mere vices for them to engage with.