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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I plan on getting my kid a dumb phone once they can drive.

No need beforehand. Being a social outcast builds characrter.[/quote]

I'm a long way away from this, but we've signed a pledge not to give our kindergartener a phone or social media access the entire time she's at her Catholic K-8.

When we get to high school the most I would do would be a dumbphone or whatever equivalent to a LightPhone exists at that time. Apparently it includes a camera, driving directions, texting, and voice, which is all that my kids need. Full-functionality smartphones are a huge distraction and will only drag down my child's grades. [/quote]

I think you are in a unique position, in that your child's peers will be (presumably) following the same rules. My 7th grader does not have a phone, in a big public MS, and it's a significant social challenge. His friends are making plans on text chains, or setting up group projects, and counting on a bunch of 13 year-olds to remember that the need to text Larlo's mom because he does not have a phone is not a reliable strategy.

If you managed to hold strong into MS, it will be at least partially because every other kid will have signed the same pledge, which is a very different situation than kids who are not in private schools. [/quote]

They have this same pledge at our K-8 but there is always the kid with divorced parents who gets a phone in 2nd grade to communicate when they’re at the other house and then the whining starts. By 5th grade a lot of the “cool” kids are getting phones especially if older siblings already have them. 
I’m content to let my kid be uncool. He’s getting the watch for 6th grade.[/quote]

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