Perhaps, but I personally think it's more likely the latter and they're just a bunch of fart-sniffing pretentious idiots with more money than sense.

Devil's advocate: when their son runs for X, there will be less video evidence of him using the nword and using gamer moves on women.

I think your comment ties back into one further up the thread, where someone said that this is good as a collective decision, and extremely bad as an individual "choice". If you send your children to a school where this is common, you get to reap the obvious benefits from your kid not having access to these harmful devices. Whereas if you make a "consumer choice" to be a responsible parent, you just set up your kid to be resentful of you, since you excluded them from one of the most basic activities that their friends have access to.

Problem is, those kids will eventually get these devices, and then they have no framework for how to control their own usage. I would imagine they'd also have some catching up to do on social expectations about device usage in groups.

If all the kids friends don't use the phone to communicate, then the problem isn't there.

…raw water?