Brilliant insight. Could you please convince my children's school that they do not need a smartphone? Because they f'ing mandate it and I have not found a way around this yet.
Not sure if bait but I'll bite. Flip phones in this day and age? Nobody even uses sms to text each other anymore. You'd be isolating your kid by not giving them access to WhatsApp and other messaging apps.
I pray you never have kids because from your other comments it seems like you had painfully low self esteem in school and now you've tricked yourself into believing that that's the norm.