To be annoyed by total phone ban

Or the staff to carry out the process?

I think it's a ridiculous suggestion to take phones of kids. Phones are part of the modern world.

I bet they'll be kids using them to monitor sugar levels and using reminders for drugs doses, even kids on the odd course of antibiotics.

Phone boxes just aren't a thing anymore. You'll be lucky to find one in the center of a town. The days of them being in every village or housing scheme are long gone.

Where's the money coming from?

Literally the only people who will be saying kids don’t need phones to get to and from long journeys to school are those that don’t currently have kids going on long journeys to school. Absolutely no way any of my kids would be making their 1 hour journeys with no way to contact me if there was a problem. They had just turned 11 when they started.

Surely though having to go and wait to collect a phone and have it unlocked would have to eat into lesson time as can you imagine how long this would take for over 1200 pupils if done once the day had ended. School bus and public transport timetables can't be changed to allow 30 minutes plus for someone to collect a phone.

I am an adult and I can't remember anyone's phone number other than my own!

People giving no shits and not letting children use their phone in an emergency is another problem with the world that we are creating

omg this is hilarious. All 3 of my teenage kids get the bus so school and I can assure you that bus drivers literally give no shits and certainly wouldn’t let a child use their phone. Do you have any children getting the bus to school currently?

I would petition the school to allow very basic/cheap dumb phones - the sort which only allow texts & calls.

It will be the distraction of smart phone capabilities they want to eliminate and its a great idea.

That's nuts. I see no reason why kids should not have a boring brick phone shoved in the bottom of their bags.

We had no phone in the house so there was no one to phone. Imagine!!

I can remember our school minibus breaking down. The teacher managed to ring the AA... but that was it. They tried the school, but no one answered.

Our parents had no idea why we hadn't come home. They didn't know it was a school problem, or a public bus problem, or something had happened...

They would have loved us to have our own mobiles that day!

My DD only takes hers to school if she's staying late... but is a 5 minute walk.

Phones solve problems as well as creating them and banning phones also creates problems

“Phones off and in bags” doesn’t work. For one, they’re not off (they’re on silent) and for two, the kids check them in the toilets. Then schools have the knock-on problem of kids asking to go to the toilet in lessons (to check their phones), so they ban in-lesson toilet visits, so parents complain about that….

The only way is for schools to take them in and return at the end of the day (not always practical/creates secure storage issues), or for them to be in the lockable pouches. I think the pouches are the best bet, form tutors could supervise locking them at the start of the day and they could be unlocked at the end of their last lesson.

What good is remembering the phone number if you have no phone to call on if there is an issue?
Bizarre.

I always had money for a phone box though- my parents made sure. There isn’t one on most streets now, as there was then.

There is a reason they have been banned. And it's a good thing in imo.

I think the analogy to car seats is disingenuous - car seats save lives , it's much less clear cut with mobile phones and teenagers - deaths are linked to their use , they enable things that used to be public - bullying - to hide -lots of bad things

Phones cause nothing but disruption in schools and clubs. The bullying done by them is so detrimental to the children.

It's a good thing they are banned.

We never had phones and walked to school or got public transport without issues.

If there was a problem then 🤷‍♀️ if they have your number written down, I'm sure the bus driver would let them use their phone to notify you.

It is a completely lazy arguement. I am also from a time well before mobile phones.
Its a bit like saying ‘well we all put babies to sleep on their fronts and they were perfectly fine’
or
Well we never had seatbelts in the back and all my kids grew up without a scratch
Good for you but many many did come to harm. A mobile for travel is a safety net - it solves a lot of problems if there are issues on the journey.
Life was simpler and smaller with generally ‘less’ all round years ago. People stayed more local, walked to secondary school in many cases. If they had further to go then you always had change for a phone box if there was a problem. People were generally less suspicious and community was far more valued.
It was a very different time

Why can't children just remember their parents phone numbers?

Phones have no place in a school environment.

That will end very quickly when one goes missing.

People always say "well we didn't have phones and all day and we got home fine" but they were phone boxes. You could stop somebody and asked to use the phone you could go to shop asked to use the phone or sorts of things you could do any of those things really now.
I had a night where I’d travelled to get to a concert and my phone broke. I had to call into hotels en route and ask could I use their phone. Everyone let me but you could see them wondering was it a scam or something!!! Definitely could have done with a phone box!!!

I wish our school was more strict with phones. I was watching bbc breakfast yesterday and they had a whole segment about online safety. Some schools make kids put them into a locker and collect at end of the day and I’ve heard some have magnetic pouches they lock their phone in which then gets unlocked at end of school day.

My DDs school don’t allow phones to be used during school day but they all still do it. They just go to the toilets or hide it in their bag. If they are sick the school tells them to use their own phone to call us.

I don’t think phone off and out of site works it needs to be locked away by to school or banned all together .

Nowhere have I said it should be banned, fgs.
I pointed out, in response to the OP being 'out of contact' that generations survived without such contact
And given the influence of sm in children murdering children, and tje othrr assosciated dangers, it ain't a that

Something like the yondr pouches a PP mentioned seem good. They wouldn't take long to unlock at end of day and school could get parents to cover the costs. Maybe you could take some ideas to the governing body of the school or P&C if you have those in UK schools.