text: Students should be allowed to have cell phones at school. Students use their cell phones to communicate not only among one another, but to their parents as well. Without cell phones the school's phones would be crowded with students lost trying to find their parents and/or family members. I remember before I got my cell phone, it was hard to communicate with my brothers and my mother, because even if I called my home from the school phone, if there is no answer, how am I going to get a call back? We can't have half the school at the office trying to get a hold of their parents. Policy 2 would be completely ridiculous with most students relying on their phones for communication to make it home each day.