It's a good opportunity to teach your kids about how crappy and shallow other kids can be, and also teach them how to respond to criticism like this.
20 years ago, you'd get shit for not wearing the cool kind of shoes your peers had.
20 years ago, you'd get shit for not wearing the cool kind of shoes your peers had.
Having a single android user in a group chat means the whole group chat is essentially crippled.
The kids are not being shallow here, Apple is being anticompetitive.
For kids, if you are not friends with people you spend 80% of your time with, you can't get the same kind of friendship elsewhere. The social games they play are way more complex than anything they teach them in school.
When I was younger I got teased for not having a Starter brand fitted hat, and I wasn't even into team sports.
Just because kids are prone to being led in this way, doesn't mean those leading that behaviour get a pass.