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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Seriously. If parents want to control cell phones, don't buy them for your kids. End of discussion. Do you need to track their every movement? Did your parents track your every movement? You want your kids to have social advantages and connections with cell phones, but you don't teach them how to use them, then blame schools for your failure of parenting. You can't have it all. Give your kids a tool of addiction and expect schools to cure them? Please. [/quote]

I agree here, but ... my DC in MS is the only one in their class who does not have a phone.  While phones are not allowed in class (they do still make appearances), at every social gathering, the phones are out and DC comes home saying that the outing was pretty fun except that kids were on their phones basically at all times.  We have witnessed it ourselves and determined it's not an exaggeration.  This lovely k-8 school and parents have just given up.  I think it depends on the class, but for these kids it's game over.  We feel like such outliers with not giving the phone, and that is also a bit hard on DC along with lost social time with peers. [/quote]
My kid is in HS now but when in MS, the school had a strict no-phone policy (they had to be in the locker all day and couldn’t be used on school grounds even after school while waiting for pickup; violations got the phone taken away and parents called). We found that the summer between 7th and 8th was a good time for DC to get a phone. By then most kids had one (I think during 8th only one or two kids out of the 25 didn’t have one), and DC could be part of the text chats after school that were part of the social aspect of the class, learn to own, care for, and responsibly use an expensive piece of tech with the understanding that we were carefully monitoring. We had specific rules at home—phone charged in the kitchen at night, we had the passcode and kid knew we could and would periodically check the phone, etc. Laying the groundwork for having more independence in HS, which lays the groundwork for even more freedom in college and as an adult. Kids don’t come with built-in savvy in tech use. You have to teach them, and just not allowing it and ignoring it until they are 18 doesn’t help. [/quote]

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