If telus has the student plan still it is a good one. I bucked the kids getting phones and they were both the last in the class to get them. I was wrong, they are what walkie talkies were to us. don't buck the new era. I believe it's our responsibility to teach them how to respect it. they need to learn all they can in the new electronic era, My youngest is now 16 and rebuilds his iphone by you tubing instructions.