[Citizen Blade]

You can't see some type of natural or person-made emergency that might necessitate the ability of your child to be able to contact you (or the authorities) by cell phone from school?

Post 9/11, I think pretty much every schoolkid should have a cell phone. Parents can disable a lot of the functions, if need be, but kids and parents being able to get in contact with one another in an emergency is crucial.

Schools should just require that cell phones be set to vibrate or silent during class time.

[riverdawg]

At princess riverdawg’s (Catholic) high school, all cell phones are supposed to be turned off while the student is in the building or anywhere on school grounds between 8:00 am and afternoon dismissal, usually 3:15 pm. I assume if there was a Columbine-type situation, exceptions would be granted ...

[crghill]

Reason number 10,227 as to why we homeschool!