Yes, they should be allowed but they should know the right & wrong times to use it. I say this, because there may be a school emergency, where the student needs to call home or they can call home when they need a ride home after school activities are over, etc. The cell phone should be turned off at all times, so as not to distract the other students & teachers. Maybe other parents will disagree but I try to keep an open mind on such issues.

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There´s nothing wrong with taking cellphones to school providing they are not allowed to be used on school premises. Students need to learn to relate to other students, not some disembodied voice.Let them save that type of communication for when they are going home on the school bus. If there is an emergency then the parents can get in touch with the school.

I work at a small high school which is very remote. We have some students who drive 45 minutes to attend. We also travel for as much as three hours or more for sporting events. Cell phones are necessary for these reasons.

Here is our policy. Cell phones are allowed at our school, but must be turned off during school hours. They are only able to be used before and after school and during lunch periods. If we catch a student using the phone during a time they aren’t supposed to be, it is confiscated and returned at the end of the day. Second time- we take the phone and the parents come get it at the end of the day. Third time- no cell phone for that student at all.

yes, for emergencies, but it should be kept on silent and not used during class time. You never know what will happen.

There was a girl who had an allergic reaction at school but the administraction could not reach the girls mother for that consent to treat and transporting her to the hospital. Well her mother was out to lunch. The girls bbf called her friends mom m2m. The mom called the school back immediately so they could take her too the hospital. The school wanted to suspend the friend for having the cell in school!!!

It’s OK to HAVE it!

However, most schools (at least in the US) forbid its usage. I agree with that. There are emergency situations where a cell phone would be useful, but they can also be a distraction and used for cheating. My kid takes his to school, but is not allowed to use it at all except at lunch and after school (of course I KNOW he probably sneaks a peek at other times — but that’s on him if he gets it taken away, it’s gone!). It’s handy because if I need to get a message to him, I can text over and he’ll get it at lunch or before sports practice.

I think sometimes it is necessary. There might be an emergency situation where the child needs the phone. As long as the phones are not interfering with learning, they are fine. Unrealistic? Probably because most kids use their phones during class and make their parents phone bills increase by hundreds of dollars.

Sorry – there’s no good reason for it. If there’s an emergency the school can be called and they can get a student. If it isn’t an emergency the student shouldn’t be called anyway. End of story.

yes, they should be able to. when there was something going on in our school, we all weren’t supposed to have phones, but we were lucky we did. our parents were worried sick about us, but we were able to call them and let them know we were alright. they should be kept on silent during class though. i think it’s okay to check time on them and stuff, but not texting people on them. in my class the teacher would always leave us alone in the room for like half the class because she was a whacko and we would all get out our phones and call people that weren’t in school that day and talk to them.

in my opinion, mobilephones could be stored swiched off for the duration of classes -they are incredibly stressful. My very own journey is that the two instructors and scholars make a regardless use of them in the process the classes. maximum of my classmates shop their vibrating telephones on the table or “hidden” interior the pokets that’s nonsense! on the different hand, instructors, people who could supply the occasion in first place, recharge their telephones’ batteries interior the college’s sockets. in addition to they countinously examine out them to envision climate they have recived any sms or neglected calls. Many argue that that’s in basic terms the thank you to stay the scholastic ecosystem greater freely, yet i do no longer see it this way… i think of it incredibly is greater a self-admire depend. in yet in a distinctive way,properly, i do no longer understand precisely yet i think of you could carry cellular telephones yet you could no longer use them, pupils probably could shop ’em became off. i think of it began whilst some men began to make video clips with a cellular telephone for the duration of classes, and then they placed ’em on Youtube, you already know. the main favorite video (it replaced into on the information for practically a week and doubtless replaced into the episode that extra to that regulation) replaced into probably the only the place some pupils filmed themselves whilst they stored touching their instructor’s attractive “posterior”.