text: Having a cell phone in school is nearly point less, there isn't a good reason to have it. Students will simply talking to their friends which they can do in school without a phone. The only way it can be useful is to maybe call a parent and inform them of something like you have to stay late after school or something of that nature. They will most likely just text or call each other, that makes it point less because the time they can use it, they can just talk to them face to face.