by KagomeShuko on April 4th, 2007

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Do you think elementary students should be allowed to have cell phones at school?

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by donovan reynolds. on April 4th, 2007
No, elementary school students are way too young to have cell phones. Should an emergency ever happen, they are under constant supervision of an adult (most of which have cell phones, themselves), which is not always the case for high school and middle school students.
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- I agree, but I once subbed for a second grade class and at least three of the students in that class has cell phones. Then, yesterday, I saw one of my former teachers and her granddaughter is only 10 and she already has her own cell phone!
  
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  by KagomeShuko on April 4th, 2007
- Wow, that's insane. People are too generous with those types of things now. Many teenagers aren't responsible with cell phones, but I can only imagine with younger kids.
  
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by Wickels on April 4th, 2007
There is no reason an elementary school student would need a cell phone, period. Let alone at school.
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- I agree, but I once subbed for a second grade class and at least three of the students in that class has cell phones. Then, yesterday, I saw one of my former teachers and her granddaughter is only 10 and she already has her own cell phone!
  
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  by KagomeShuko on April 4th, 2007
- I substitute teach too, and I have not seen kids in elementaries with them.
  
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  by scubaduba on April 16th, 2008
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by xdragoox on April 4th, 2007
Nope. I didn't have a cell phone at school and did just fine.
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by unknown on April 4th, 2007
I wouldn't give an elementary student a phone period; but definitely not at school.
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- I agree, but I once subbed for a second grade class and at least three of the students in that class has cell phones. Then, yesterday, I saw one of my former teachers and her granddaughter is only 10 and she already has her own cell phone!
  
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  by KagomeShuko on April 4th, 2007
- I grew up with one TV in the house and only two phones; one in the kitchen and one in my parents bedroom. I don't understand why people think that kids "need" things like cell phones and a TV in every room. What is there to look forward to when you get older. I just don't get it.
  
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  by unknown on April 4th, 2007
- All my life my family has had one main phone line. I didn't have a television in my room until I was an adult (I love my parents, they aren't pressuring me as long as I keep looking for a job).
  
  I got my cell phone once I was in college.
  
  I don't get this whole "need" thing, either.
  
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  by KagomeShuko on April 4th, 2007
- lol I guess maybe we're older so it's different. I don't know. I can tell you my son will not have a cell phone until he can pay for it himself.
  
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  by unknown on April 4th, 2007
- I agree with you about the whole "need" for various electronics EVERYWHERE, idne. It's gotten totally out of hand! The children I take care of have 3 video game systems, four TVs in the house (though neither one has a TV in their room, I kind of feel like it's only a matter of time), plus several portable video game systems. Not to mention the hundreds of movies they have! Also the six-year-old boy HAD a cell phone (last year, so when he was 5!!)...until he lost it. Yet another reason elementary kids shouldn't have cell phones, lol. They'd both rather sit in the house watching TV on a beautiful day than go outside and enjoy it...it's sad!
  
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  by tamarakh is ready for a vacation on April 23rd, 2008
- It's just amazing how much technology kids today "need" to have fun. A stick and a ball are just as much fun. :)
  
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  by unknown on April 23rd, 2008
- I don't get it at all. I'm not even a person who really enjoys being outside. However, I had friends when I was young, and we'd go out and do stuff - play hide and seek, play up in a tree house, sit outside and play with homemade play dough, make up our own weird little games . . . these activities didn't require electronics!
  
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  by KagomeShuko on April 24th, 2008
- No and they are even more fun because anyone can do it and everyone can play. :)
  
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  by unknown on April 25th, 2008
- They certainly were a lot more fun - and we could go off in groups or be one big group, always friends at the end of the day. (However, the one thing that I did not get was that a brother and sister who lived on the same street when I was young, BOTH had an NES hooked up to a TV in the living room and they could BOTH play on one . . . and yet, NES has two player games! Talk about spoiled! All the game systems I have ever had, I bought with birthday money or money I earned!)
  
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  by KagomeShuko on April 26th, 2008
- We had pong. LOL
  
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  by unknown on April 29th, 2008
- We had the NES, but it still wasn't what was the most fun. We played tag, hide and seek, flew paper air planes, and played with jump ropes (sometimes jumping, but mostly making up silly games.)
  
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  by KagomeShuko on April 29th, 2008
- I miss those days.
  
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by munchkin_kids_downunder on April 4th, 2007
no, school is for school. mobile/cell phones are just a distraction.
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- I agree, but I once subbed for a second grade class and at least three of the students in that class has cell phones. Then, yesterday, I saw one of my former teachers and her granddaughter is only 10 and she already has her own cell phone!
  
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by tamarakh is ready for a vacation on April 17th, 2008
Only if it remains in their backpack and off while school is in session, and its only used for emergencies. I really don't think kids should have cell phones, though, to be honest. I was 15 before I got my first phone, and that was only because I had gotten a job and was going to be driving soon...
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by Stillme FBB on April 16th, 2008
No students should have cell phones at school!
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by Penal Colony is wicked marrying Andy on April 16th, 2008
Absolutely not. There is no reason anyone who can't pay for it on their own should feel "entitled" to have a cell phone. Especially in grammar school, where it is little more than a status symbol like having the "right" pair of sneakers or the newest Trapper Keeper (sorry, I'm old).

Little kids survived for hundreds of years in school without cell phones. There are going to be a certain amount of safety concerns for children no matter what, but if kids are well-educated and taught how to be smart and safe, cell phones are unnecessary.

When I was in middle school, hats and gum were both forbidden in school. There's no reason schools can't make the same sort of rules for cell phones, iPods, and similar distractions. I get pissed when I see an education going to waste because of consumerism and socially-driven materialism. My tax money is paying for the education of the children in my city, and they'd better use it wisely.

Signed,
Grumpy Old Man
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by sssherri on April 16th, 2008
Heck no. In factI feel cell phones should be disallowed in all school rooms. Classes should not be interrupted by cell phones.
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by cutty50 on April 16th, 2008
Yes kids should hav cell phones at scool incase you are watking home from school and a emergency happens!!!
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by Roselynn...unregistered text offender... on April 16th, 2008
I think it is alright as long as they just have the 'firefly' phones or whatever.
Where they can only call their mom, dad, and 911.
And whatever else the parents feel like programming in there.
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by Galeanda on April 16th, 2008
No, not even for emergencies. They are too young to actually DO anything in an emergency and notifying the school is a much better way to tell a child of an emergency as just telling the child isn't good enough. The child couldn't just leave the school without the school being told, so just call the school and be done with it.
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by scubaduba on April 16th, 2008
No, they do not need them. If for some reason they need it after school (they walk, they're going to a friend's house, to call mom to pick them up from soccer practice...) then it should have to be turned off and in the backpack/book bag all day and not out.
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by I am a USN Sailor on January 25th, 2009
elementary kids shouldn't even have them! here's why: they don't need them. not at that age! shoooot! i didn't have mine until i was in high school. it wasn't necessary until then. of course it's a way for parents to keep in touch with their children but the parents shouldn't have texting for the young elementary kids because it's a distraction. to class. to everything. . .
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- I agree. I don't think kids need cell phones at all. Then, if they are even allowed to have them at school, that they have to put them somewhere and not have them during the day and only be allowed to use them in an emergency.
  
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  by KagomeShuko on January 27th, 2009
- mmhmm!
  
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by Tenaciouscj on January 25th, 2009
Only if they are switched off during classes. Otherwise, they cause too much of a distraction when the kids should be learning.
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by mollymoo on April 17th, 2008
yes!!! what if they are being bullied or something and the bullies threaten you to do something to something or someone and you don't know what to do? the bullies could've threatened you to do something to you if you don't do it so you would probably need one.
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by CaptainHarley adores his life penguin on April 16th, 2008
No.
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by GiraffeyedDonor-ish on April 16th, 2008
I don't see a problem with having it, but I don't see a need for it either. And if they do have it, they should not be allowed to use it at school/during school hours.
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by BigDaddyBS on April 15th, 2010
As mentioned, for ELEMENTARY students, ONLY a firefly-type phone, and then AT school... NOT in class.
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by Juvanely_L on March 21st, 2011
YES THEY SHOULD BECAUSE THEY ARE TOO YOUNG AND THEY NEED TO BE SAFE.
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by Little Miss Dangerous on April 15th, 2010
No. It's just one more expensive toy to get lost or damaged. Our school doesn't allow any electronics or toys from home, except by special permission (i.e. show and tell).

Schools have policies and procedures for handling emergencies and parents are notified of them at the beginning of the school year, or may inquire. There is no reason an elementary student should need a phone.
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by Yuocandoit on April 15th, 2010
Yes because they may be somewhere at school and they have been waiting for you to come pick them up and you didnt so they can call you and ask you to come pick them up. They are in the middle of nowhere and want them home so they come pick them up. There in situation where they need the cops to help them because they've been kidnapped.
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- The question was specific to at school--not kidnappings. An elementary school would not leave a child alone. They would call the parents and wait with the child.
  
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