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Fifth Grader with an iPhone. *Rant*

December 8th, 2011 at 10:05 pm

I drove DD to and from a field trip today. While everyone was eating lunch on the field trip I noticed one of the girls had an iPhone. She had it out just looking at it and wiping off the screen, kind of flashing it around. REALLY?! A fifth grader, a 10 year-old, with an iPhone?

I guess a case of more money than brains?

I was standing and talking to another mom and she knows the girl pretty well and she said the girl's dad would buy her anything she asked for. Rolleyes

Can't imagine raising my kids that way regardless of income.

I can see getting a child a cell phone for safety reasons. But, there are plenty of plain vanilla phones that call and text. What's wrong with that?

Speaking of safety - What if someone saw that phone and wanted to steal it? I mean what could be easier than to rob a 60lb 10 year-old?

3 Responses to “Fifth Grader with an iPhone. *Rant* ”

  1. Miz Pat Says:
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    Its a status thing - I wonder if he has a huge credit card balance?

  2. Jerry Says:
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    I think that is ridiculous, as well. An iPhone is a tool that is well beyond the needs of a ten year old, and it can also lead to kids accessing seriously questionable content on the internet, quite by accident. Our friend's child took a smart phone to middle school and it was lost, then turned in to the lost and found and returned to them, but it had been used to access a ton of "adult" websites. I'd rather have a plain phone to offer insurance of safety and communication.
    Jerry

  3. Bill Says:
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    RE: iphone being a useful tool:

    First: I've used all of the progressions of hand held technology.
    Starting with a hand held calculator. Yes. a long time ago.

    I watched them evolve.

    and they started to DEVOLVE with APPLE.
    who made the Newton (I had to return it, useless thing it was.)
    then Apple, instead of continuing to evolve the current technology as in the PDA, turned it into a toy.
    something to distract kids, and the rest of us fell for it. "OH, look at this cute little iphone!!! I gotta HAVE one!"

    PDA's, all of them, Except internet access and cell phone, could do much more much better than the iphone.
    (for instance: iphone & ipad can only search backwards ONE rolling year in Calendar; or, do a global search in iOS and it will only bring you to the Document the search string is IN, but will not show it to you IN the document.)
    APPLE has shifted our focus from useful tool, to much more useless distraction.

    I've formed this opinion of APPLE from being a loyal follower of APPLE since the Apple II.
    So you don't think I'm biased for or agains just Apple, I have similar opinions of Microsoft, who has totally diverted from a natural progression of it's software that would benefit society, to the path that mainly benefits Microsoft.

    This single focus: of profit for Corporations, is universal. They have changed laws so that they now have all the legal rights of a person, but NONE of the humanity, none of the responsibility, nothing but a Need for Greed.
    Well, I say: FU Apple, and Microsoft, and Corporations in general.

    We could more appropriately shift our "Occupy Wall Street" angst to "Rebel against Corporations"

    Corporations are the enemy and the cause of the state of the Economy today.

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