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Children like anyone else have choices. They can buy goods from their own money, just like the rest of us can to some extent. Whether they should have cell phones at school is a most interesting debate.

First and foremost a kid's task is to learn the curriculum, attend school, and make steady progress in terms of development in an academic sense. The mobile phone acts as a source of distraction. Instead of focusing on the task, the kids that take their cell phones into school with them, are missing a point. The frequency waves that a cell phone has from its signal, is hazardous for health. It can make unknowingly some people, tired, lazy, hyperactive and others feel angry. My only observation here is, a kid is supposed to be learning not embroilled with the magnets, the frequency signals contained with cell phones.

Second by having a phone at say break time, is another interesting area. Many kids will certainly get jealous of seeing a friend with the latest cell phone. This leads to some kid somewhere wanting to get the same phone or more expensive still. The kid will by hook or via crook want to get their own way in achieving this feat. To some it is a talking point for a male guy with the latest phone to brag, joke, make other people jealous. So in turn, his/her friends might also react in a negative way to the kids that have these cell phones.

During the classroom time, or during an exam, it would be most innappropriate and an uncitely disturbance for a phone to ring ring when other students are sitting important exams and test results. Sure having a phone can be switched off, though by having a phone in your bag, jacket, trouser pocket also adds to that likelihood of this happening.

In terms of personal security the historical argument if you get in trouble, the first thing you do is to call your friend, relatives, or the authorities to this event. So from this aspect, owning a phone is down to choice.

Personally, i would like to see cell phones banned in schools, the distracting nature and the natural health risks associated with cell phone use especially by kids is more harmful for themselves and there fellow students may also be at relatively small risk. Is the chance worth taking? A kid can call his parents if needed after school hours, or phone a friend when at home.

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