All community clubs have them, as do schools, malls. A calling card costs nothing, just ask your phone company for one. The school cannot deny your kid the use of a phone to call home. Once your kids are teens, then it's a different story but 6-8-10 year old kids? No way. they shouldn't be wandering around alone in the first place, so they do not need a cell phone. On the rare occasion they do, lend them yours. What does the law in your state say about leaving your 6-8 or10 year old kid alone without proper supervision? A cell phone isn't a replacement.
All? Hardly. Maybe in the boondocks, but not in any (over) civilized part of the world...
As I do not hang out in those places I will take your word for it. I just know at my place of business we took out the last of the pay phones a year ago.
they shouldn't be wandering around alone in the first place, so they do not need a cell phone.
Ah, I see, you live in Perfect. Never mind.
Payphones only let the kid contact the parent, they don't allow for the parent to contact the kid, unless the kid is chained to the payphone.
Yes they can. See post #86.
"I sat in the MS office last year waiting for my son and watched the secretary tell a 12 year old girl she couldn't call her mom at work because it wasn't a local call."
I have never seen or attended a school with payphones. My son's middle school doesn't have them, and the school is surrounded by cemeteries, which obviously don't have them, either.