To feel relieved the school has now completely banned phones

Stagecoach near me is digital for termly or annual bus passes.

@Eastie77Returns it wouldn't surprise me if they ban smart phones for under 15s at some point in the future.

I work at a school where smart phones are banned. It is SO much better. Lots of the Y7s are no longer being bought smart phones any more and instead are getting brick phones, so they can call/text their mates but not have internet/social media access.

We will be doing the same with our Y6 child as they've asked for a phone for their 11th birthday. They can use a brick phone to contact me if there's an issue with a school bus when they go to secondary.

I'd hate that. I agree that they shouldn't be allowed on in class but I think if the want to police it the form tutor should have a locker to store them in from registration and add in session to give them back at the end of the day (like on jury service). How will children contact parents if the buses are cancelled or there is an emergency, or even if they want to stay on at the library after school to work on something in particular? It was all very well back in the 90s when there were payphones readily available, but they don't exist any more!

Yes that poster is living on another planet where it's only ever a short wait and no impact on work or after school activities.

Oh I see. You assume there's always another train or another bus.

The next bus is the next day.

Would you leave yours overnight?

Well you’re incorrect, there will be a number of exceptions to “no phones”.

The campaigning organisations do not want brick phones banned, because parents do want means to contact.

You are assuming there is a next train or bus

Of course they can wait for the next train or get a bus ! What do you think we used to do?

Or parents can discipline their own children? So that schools aren't having to waste time on this nonsense? If your child cant be trusted with a device at school, dont give them one!

So when the train doesn't arrive, would you not go to get them?
You would just leave them there? Even if it meant they can't get to their job?

Batshit.

You're entitled to be any type of parent you want, but you don't have the right to stop me being able to collect my kid and help them get to work.

Then the school needs to address that behaviour, not penalise everyone who can follow instructions.

If parents backed schools up and reinforced existing restrictions at home, these bans wouldn't be necessary. Parents only have themselves to blame.

Nope many don’t. The bullying and filming happens as they leave school.

Trust me I do. We live rurally with kids who travelled many miles to school and two full time working parents.

Actually the majority don't want smartphones used in schools, but do want their kids to have a phone when travelling.

Exactly this! And we wonder where kids get it from.🙄

I bet if you explained your family's logistics it would be very simple. Because you seem to have no idea at all about public transport, rural journeys or schedule changes.

No it isnt. Many parents don’t want phones in schools either. Many don’t want their kids filmed, bullied or disturbed in lessons. No need to have them in school at all and they shouldn’t be because many kids have mollycoddling parents who think they’re special and that kid should over ride rules. No phones, zero problems.

Because they don't all do what they are told! Don't base everyone on your child who I assume is well behaved?

Parents should be more worried about the constant barrage of media and communication their children are being exposed to. Support the schools and give them a breather from it all!

What’s hard to understand?
I’m glad schools have banned phones because I wasn’t sure I would able to hold the line on a smartphone ban in my own home is basically the gist of your whole post.

OP, why were you going to give your DS a phone?

It doesn’t matter if people lived without phones before, we also lived without internet and yet here you are.
Dictating what teenagers can do on the way in and home from school is overreaching.
Off and in bags, in a locker, all reasonable rules, however banning them from bringing something in for use after school is not reasonable.

My granddaughter travels a few miles to school and uses the bus/train apps on her phone. A few times she has been completely stuck when the train she’s on has suddenly been stopped. She had to ring me to ‘rescue’ her as her mum is a teacher and doesn’t have immediate access to her phone once she’s at school!
Without a phone she would have been stuck several miles from home or unable to get to school.

She also rang me to ask what to do when she and a friend were being followed and shouted at by a man.

Maybe students don’t need phones in class but they should be able to take them to school. In her case phones have to be kept in lockers and any infringement leads to a day in isolation.