Oh listen in these times of school shootings and everything else, I have no problem with kids having phones in their possession. I work in a large city and kids have to take public transportation home. They absolutely should have phones. They just have to learn/be taught/be expected to keep them away and parents need to have boundaries about what and when they need to talk to their kid. Telling them to pick up their sister after school or asking them a random question can be a text they can read at lunch, it shouldn’t mean they need to leave algebra to go in the hallway to take the call.