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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Now high school kids can’t even use their phone at lunch. Are you kidding me?? How ridiculous.[/quote]

Did an insecure parent or phone dependent-student start this gripe thread? Hard to know the difference really.  [/quote]

No, a parent with common sense. Kids sometimes need to text their parents and vice versa for whatever reason. It’s not a crime.[/quote]

Somehow in the way back times, people survived high school without the ability to text parents and vice versa. How ever did we all survive???? 
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The world wasn’t digitized then. We have evolved. Sometimes we need to send a quick text about after school plans to our child and it’s super easy and convenient and you know they will get the message. When my child was in middle school I was constantly emailing his last period teacher about changes in dismissal plans and it was nerve wracking not knowing if she would check the message or remember to give it. Now that we have texting we should be able to use it to communicate with our kids. Lunch is the perfect time for them to read it. I really donut see the need to take them away at lunch. The cafeteria is probably quieter too. [/quote]

This sounds like a YOU problem. I've NEVER had to contact anyone at either of my children's schools about last minute changes to their dismissal plans. There have been a few time when my middle schooler has had an after school program cancelled and she came home on the bus instead of needing to be picked up, but she texted me at the end of the day and used her key to let herself in when she got home.[/quote]

So in that case the school communicated to your child that the after school program got cancelled. My child didn’t know the after school private lesson got cancelled because the instructor contacted me to cancel. I would then call the school to tell them but they told me to email the last period teacher. That was the only way my child knew to catch the bus home isntead. Explain to me how else this could have been done.[/quote]

You text your kid, and kid turns on their phone at 3:00 and sees it. They don't need to see it at noon.[/quote]

By the time they see it they would have missed the bus. And my child actually didn’t get a phone until a few months in during 8th grade. So no, I don’t actually have an addicted to a phone kid because we waited until 8th and had strict rules.[/quote]

Then they are slow. Buses don’t leave until 10-15 minutes after the bell rings.

3:00, bell rings
3:01, phone is turned on
3:02, text appears telling her to take the bus

If she can’t make it outside to the bus in 8-13 minutes, there are bigger issues. What is blocking her/slowing her down? There are no longer lockers at most schools, so kids literally are outside within 1-2 minutes of the bell ringing even at my monstrous school.

But also, families had no issue handling this before phones. [b]If after school plans change (kid needs to ride the bus vs get picked up), you just call the school. They will send a note to the classroom for the child with one of the zillions of office assistant kids. [/b]There are policies in place that work fine, and they will work fine next year too.[/quote]

You didn’t read the thread, did you? I explained that this was before the phone and the office actually would not send a message. They literally told me to email the last period teacher to tell the change in dismissal plans.[/quote]

I'm sorry but what was your point anyway? Why does your kid need a phone? Does he still have the same unreliable tutor?[/quote]

It was a private lesson for an instrument. Those can sometimes get cancelled last minute. [/quote]

Neither of my children's music teachers has never cancelled a lesson at the last minute. That's not normal.[/quote]

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