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What I see is out of the millions of students that have passed throught American schools in the past, only this particular generation needs cell phones.

Well, people in the past didn't have cell phones, whether they needed them or not. Just because we made do without a specific technology in the past is not an argument against that technology.

Do you not think that parents and student have always had need to contact one another, and there is always a way?

When I was in high school back in the early 90's and my phone broke down on a road in rural Michigan, I had to walk a mile, at night in January, to get to a phone booth to call my parents and a tow truck. Given the choice of having my son or daughter do that or use a cell phone, I know which option I prefer.

Every classroom should be equipped with those cellphone jamming devices,

Jamming devices are illegal under Federal law.

cellphones - if allowed - should be left in students lockers, turned OFF.

Why, other than your personal preference?

Oh, I can see you're going to be one of those....ok,

Well, people in the past didn't have cell phones, whether they needed them or not. Just because we made do without a specific technology in the past is not an argument against that technology."
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Your initial argument wasn't one of "technology", it was one of having to be in constant contact with your kid. Try to focus.

When I was in high school back in the early 90's and my phone broke down on a road in rural Michigan, I had to walk a mile, at night in January, to get to a phone booth to call my parents and a tow truck. Given the choice of having my son or daughter do that or use a cell phone, I know which option I prefer."

High school...in the 90's? Jeez. My KIDS granduated in the 80's. And, you're losing focus again...the intial argument was about kids having cellphones in schools, not driving down a lonely road in Michigan. I think kids having cellphones are great in that situation is great, but it is - after all - a very different situation. Don't you think other people have had similar situations where their cars were stalled...after all, cars in the 90's were much more reliable than in the 60's...but we somehow managed to make it.

Jamming devices are illegal under Federal law.

Jeez, are we going to split hairs all day to try to get to a freakin' point. I know it's illegal, but I said SHOULD BE. You must have been playing with your cellphone and missed that part.

Why, other than your personal preference?"

Because you wouldn't want 300 different cellphones with 300 different ringtones going off all day in the hallway...THINK!