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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Sometime in middle school seems most common. We got DD a smartphone the summer before 6th grade, for reasons that were almost entirely due to parental convenience. She most likely didn't need it; I think access to a phone (not necessarily a smartphone) of her own might have been more critical socially by 7th grade when it seems that kids made plans directly with each other and not really through parents. We tied the privilege of having the smartphone to grades and behavior, and if either wasn't meeting certain standards the phone was among the first things to go.[/quote]

When does middle school start in your district?  I think many parents have a mindset that their kids can have a cell phone "around middle school", and even if they decide to cave and give one earlier, it doesn't seem too bad, because their kid will be in middle school soon enough anyways.  In our district, middle school starts in 6th, so 5th grade doesn't seem that young.  I think a lot of the people who are horrified by 5th graders having cell phones probably live in an area where middle school starts in 7th. [/quote]

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