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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The expectation of at least having a smartphone starts in 6th grade.

Having a nice smartphone doesn't really kick in until age 13/14.  And even then, I've not heard stories from my kids of peers being bullied or made fun of for not having the best phone.

I know that some kids make money selling their older iPhones at school once they get a newer model.  It's something about how Instagram on an Android is crappy?  Or maybe it's Snapchat?  I just know that one of those apps doesn't work as well on an Android.

My neighbor's son traded his Samsung Galaxy S7 for an iPhone 5c.  She was irate because he didn't understand he was trading a 2016 model phone for one released in 2013.  "But it's an iPhone, mom" was all he kept telling her.  His bad trade is kind of a running joke in our friend group now.  When we had our neighborhood Halloween party on Saturday, another neighbor said, "Hey James, I'll trade you my half eaten cookie for your uneaten cookie that just came out of the oven."  The kid gets upset because he still insists that he made a good trade.  After all, it's an iPhone!

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Sorry, I agree with him. And I hope an adult nipped the teasing in the bud at the neighborhood party. How awful for this kid.[/quote]

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