After a walkout of a certain school in Lancashire by teachers, It seems kids with mobiles are causing lots of hassle, I personally dont agree with kids under a certain age having a mobile and hear lots of horror stories of parents paying of massive bills etc. Is this a problem in your household, It makes for lots of challenging behaviour in schools and lots of potential problems, should there be an age restriction.
Kids nowadays are wizards with IT, but I think over time this is going to have a massive effect on society as they mature, social skills etc...
thoughts????

Totally agree with this, text language/abbreviations has a lot to answer for also as it will affect spelling in KS3, GCSE's etc aswell as distraction from work. I'm nearly 21, I was 11 when I had my first phone, just used it incase I was going out etc. Never really used to take it to school with me, daren't incase teacher took it off me.

[quote="Donny."]Totally agree with this, text language/abbreviations has a lot to answer for also as it will affect spelling in KS3, GCSE's etc aswell as distraction from work. I'm nearly 21, I was 11 when I had my first phone, just used it incase I was going out etc. Never really used to take it to school with me, daren't incase teacher took it off me.[/quote]


Absolutely people relying on predictive txt and abbreviations now so much so its becoming the norm!! at work I've seen application forms and what not floating around with horrible grammar etc people just don't have to think any more because technology does it for you

They should ban them in schools, they are a distraction. No problem with kids having them but not at school.

I got my first one at the age of 12/13, purely for safety reasons for when I go out. My whole family and 90% of my friends are on O2, so top up £15 and you get free calls and texts.

I remember one of my mates falling asleep on the phone for something like 12 hours, his phone bill came to £200+, but obviously his dad paid it off for him.

I know some of my second cousins have phones and they are about 6 or 7? I personally think thats wrong and don't agree with what their mother is doing, but their her children at the end of the day.

I have railed against text speak elsewhere - I fucking hate it.

My wife is a teacher and tells me lots of stories about kids filming her, filming fights, texting in lesson, answering calls - this is a whole other issue.

Regards kids with phones, my two eldest have them but on capped deals. £10 a month, so many mins, so many texts so when it's gone its gone. Works for me/them.

[quote="Anchor"]My wife is a teacher and tells me lots of stories about kids filming her, filming fights, texting in lesson, answering calls - this is a whole other issue.[/quote]

Have a friend who's been teaching for about 6 months and this is his biggest gripe. Was told when he started that phones couldn't be confiscated but just to tell the students to put them away. How does that work? Agree about txt spk too, grown men doing it too...

I am soon to be 19 so still pretty young myself,

but i had my first mobile (it was a brick) aged 10, and to be fair, then i didn't even have a clue how to do much on it, these days 10 - 12 year olds are texting eachother all the time, which i dont think is right especially given alot of them have facebook and some have their mobile phone numbers on there.

but as someone said, it's up to their parents wether they have one or not,personally if i had a kid they wouldent have one until they were 13 at least.

Me having a mobile aged 10 never did me any harm... saying that my am and dad never put any fucking credit on the thing, so in reality it was pretty useless.

"Agree about txt spk too, grown men doing it too..."

I take it your being ironic?

[quote="Anchor"]"Agree about txt spk too, grown men doing it too..."

I take it your being ironic?[/quote]

Indeed.

They were never allowed in my secondary school, but everyone took them and used to use them occasionally in lessons. For the text and FB addicts it was constantly, but for the majority it was just there in case our parents text us or so we could meet each other at lunchtime etc.

Phones are really starting to piss me off. As lame as it sounds it is making me quite sad.

Me and my mates all have iPhones or Blackberries. We will all be out at a meal, waiting on our food or whatever and we will all be sitting there on our phones, texting someone that isn't there, checking Facebook for the sake of it as we speak. It is shit and killing human interaction.

[quote="Baz"]They should ban them in schools, they are a distraction. No problem with kids having them but not at school. [/quote]

They can't pal. My misses regularly takes them off pupils for messing in class, then you get the parents phoning in and having a pop "what if my little angel had needed me and couldn't get in touch." Need their heads testing some of them