text: You should allow students to have cell phones in school for these reasons: to notify parents to pick the teen/child up after school, to call if there is an emergency, if the student has to come home early, to let the parents know they will be late if that have rehearsal for school plays, detention, etc. These should be examples for students to have cell phones, but there might be other reasons to have cell phones at school witch might be to numerous to say.