12 YO Daughter has first phone and now (inevitably) wants whatsapp. How bad is this ?

Sorry if this is not the right place to post this.

I knew this day was coming, my daughter finally has a smart phone at age 12. I feel I put it off as long as possible.

But now a smartphone is apparently (?) needed for school... Even her teacher sends documents and such to a whatsapp group of all the kids in her class. I hate that this is our reality.

I told her signal would be no problem, …

age bad class coming daughter documents kids phone privacy problem school signal smart smartphone whatsapp