Well they shouldn't have them, not that they don't or couldn't.

When I was in elementary school I did not own a cell phone. I didn't need one, now I go anywhere and see a 8 year old texting and totally spaced out. Starting a bad habit early.

Parents these days give their kids to much leniency.

No way in hell.

Kids are growing up too fast these days. Sure, parents do what they think is best for their kids, but they shouldn't have cell phones because they don't need them at this age. If something happens at school, they should know to get the teacher to ring Mom. If something happens out of school, well, kids this age shouldn't even leave home on their own, or maybe within walking distance.

What do kids this age even use cell phones for, anyway? Kids should be studying or reading, not wasting their childhoods texting away on an expensive cell phone.

Parents have to actually pay for the phone and it's plan (any kid who has enough poclet money to pay for it themselves is downright spoilt), and some parents spoil their kids in this regard. The number of times I've seen 7 year olds playing with iPhones is crazy. This treatment by parents is likely to turn the kids into fat snobs.

I'm a high school student and have the cheapest phone available. No camera, no games, no internet, nothing. I barely use it, and am surviving. I even know some adults who hate cell phones and only have one in case of emergency.

If older people can live without cell phones, why can't school kids?

Cell phones are distracting for children and teenagers. They can message and play games. In a classroom concentration and focus are important things.

Cell phones make teachers' jobs that much more challenging.

Also not in the slightest HELL. If kids get an expensive phone they could drop it or damage it. They could also do very inappropriate things on the internet. Or download violent games like five nights a Freddy's.

It depends on the kind of phone. If it is an old phone that can only do basic calling and texting, it might be fine. More likely, the child will receive a smart phone. It is too much responsibility to allow kids to handle a relatively expensive device that is, most of the time, not used responsibly. I'm currently in school, and most of my peers easily use phones to cheat during tests, and get away with it. Elementary school is too early for technological responsibilities. Once you give children free access to the Internet without supervision, you cannot control what they find. The risks of giving an elementary school kid a cell phone outweigh the safety benefits.

They are too young to be having a cell phone. Some of them would not even know how to use one.

Why would a kindergarten or anybody with a higher grade want to have a cell phone in school? Where I live students in the elementary school have strict policies about cell phones. Plus these kids are too young to be texting or calling people or be using them in class.

The only reason they would need a cell phone is if they were without someone who had one (for this argument I'm pretending that only 8th grade and up have cell phones). I believe that children who are in elementary school shouldn't be without someone who has a phone anyway. They should be at a friend's house (where there is a house phone, or parent with cell phone) or at the movies with family, or friends with adult supervision. Or anywhere, but they should be with someone responsible (like 8th grade and up). How often do you see a bunch of 10 and 11 year olds walking through the mall alone? If you do, I believe they shouldn't be out alone anyway, with or without cell phones. I'm in 9th grade and I only just got a phone. Although I've always know younger kids who had phones, I always wondered why they needed them. Now I know, they don't.