Anyone not have a phone in Y7 these days?

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My child’s friends all have phones, some since y5, the remaining now in y6. All use social media, WhatsApp, Snapchat, TikTok etc. Ideally I wouldn’t want my child to have a phone until secondary and no social media until 13. Is that realistic at all or do I need to manage my expectations? Trying to balance the harm of phones/social media against the harm of being excluded from something that is increasingly the norm.
Thanks!

I’m guessing my son’s school’s choice to ban phones is a safeguarding decision based on similar incidents, not just some anti-tech whim.

My yr 7 child doesn’t have a phone. She’s just not grown up enough to use one. She did have one and I didn’t like the problems it caused so it’s gone!

‘Chinese kids under 14 primarily see educational videos on TikTok and are limited to 40 minutes a day. The U.S. version is a free-for-all and has no time limit. It’s almost like they make their domestic version a spinach TikTok, while they ship the opium version to the rest of the world.’ 😬
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@Pinkymalinky99 wow!!! Not only do they easily have the ability to implement safe usage policies for 13 & under, they have actually already done it! Just not here.