To be honest, our daughter has an iPhone and she got it in the 3rd grade. I was going to get her a flip phone or something like that but it was going to cost just as much per month. It doesn’t make sense to me but our cell service provider would charge the same even when there’s no data.
So we got the cheapest iPhone and really locked it down in the settings. We also only got her the phone when we were leaving her t home by herself.