text: I think you should consider allowing students to bring phone's to school and let them use them during lunch period's and other free times, just as long as the phones are turned off during class time. I think this because, wonder if it was an emergency? They're parents try calling the office but the secretary doesn't answer, so they text the child but the teacher's don't let them answer it or else the cell will be confiscated. But the parent need's to get a hold of them! What do they do? By not answering the parent could be risking something very big.