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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The high school coaches my kids have been involved with communicate through apps and texts. And they don’t want parent involvement. I don’t know what they’d do with a kid who didn’t have a phone.

And curious how your kids make plans with friends if they don’t have a phone in high school. [/quote]

Yeah, that is not appropriate. I don't care if an adult reaches out to my kid but I need to be on the communication. It is a basic safety feature. I won't reply, my kid is the one who needs to be communicating but he should not be communicating with an adult solo. That is a huge red flag. 
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Not solo communication Messages on an app that go to the entire team.

For example, my son’s coach sent a message to the team yesterday that practice moved inside due to heat. It was sent to all the players and coaches, but not to the parents. My 17 year old then told me. [/quote]

And that is fine. We have told our child that group emails do not have to include us. Emails to his friends, don't include us and never needed to.  Solo emails to adults need to include us. The exception is to teachers when using the school approved email address.

Some organizations prohibit adults from communicating only with the child, Scouting America, for pretty obvious reasons, requires that parents are included on emails to an adult in the Troop. If a Scout sends me something and I don't see their parent, I add the parent or the Scoutmaster. It is a hard and fast rule. We flat out tell parents if their kid has received an email from an Adult in Scouts that they were not included on, tell us immediately.

I understand that the cases of abuse are rare events but I know that I can decrease he likelihood of my kid being abused with some guidelines. I don't think being CCed on an email to an adult volunteer for a club or an activity when sending an email to that individual is unreasonable for an 8th grader or a 9th grader. Things shift as kids get older but this topic is about an 8th grader going into 9th grade.

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