The administration of Comboni Primary School at Gordhim in Aweil East County has returned to students the phones that it had confiscated.

The administration met with the parents to discuss the issue of students attending school lessons with phones and the parents said the students should be given their phones back.

The deputy head teacher of Comboni Primary school, Peter Diing Diing, says parents will gain from what their children are learning when they graduate so they should not allow them to be distracted.

“My decision was that we are not giving back the students their phones till the end of term which is December,” said Mr Diing.

However, ‘it didn’t work out because their parents say the children should be given the phones back’.

He added that they had confiscated the phones so pupils could concentrate on their studies.

Diing says if students bring phones to lessons again, he will find a way of dealing with them.

Generally, there has been concern by school authorities over phones.

In Yei River, lawmakers are deliberating whether to ban cell phones in the County’s schools.