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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]At Yorktown they are allowed to use them in a quiet spot in the library.   DD tells me she doesn’t have time during the day to go to said spot. So if she needs to get us a message I guess she does it while going to the bathroom.

But schedule changes happen all the time in high school. Something was cancelled today so I didn’t have to pick her up from school. She rode the bus. Nice to get that message so I didn’t have to rush to leave the office at 4 to pick her up. [/quote]

She can email you. She has access to email from her laptop. If she doesn't have a non-APS email account, perhaps you should look into one.[/quote]

Unfortunately email isn't the best way to reach people when you need to see a message quickly. If my HS students emails me, I may not see it for hours. And even if I do and email them back, there is NO way they will see it. How could they? They would have to keep going into their gmail - during class time - to see if I responded yet, and sift through the hundreds of spam emails they get from colleges.

Urgent notifications are what texts are for. [/quote]

Why is it urgent? Lets say they told you that practice was canceled and needed a ride home. He will be out side waiting.  What else is he going to do? AND he will have a phone. You got the message, so you will be there. Or someone else because you arranged a ride -- you can text him and he will see it end of day and find ride.

How old are you that you are so impatient with messages for no good reason?[/quote]

Maybe you sit around all day with nothing to do but some of us need some advance notice if a pickup time changes. [/quote]
If pickup time has been made earlier, your kid will wait or find another way home.
If it's a group activity that's been cancelled or lets out early, your kid can wait or have a system in place for them to contact someone else who can get to them faster or to catch a ride with a fellow student in the group.
If pickup time is later, seems like you would have time to arrange for that.[/quote]

Or....let the kids make an occasional text between classes. All of these gymnastics to force something with no value. 
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+ 1. Wait until nasty poster's kid gets stuck at school for hours, I bet they will have something to say about that!

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Assuming you are referring to me as "nasty poster," my kid has called/texted after school hours when something is cancelled or ends early - and waited until I or someone else can get there. They have also occasionally taken it upon themselves to choose the hour walk home.  There are more instances of ME wanting to get word to THEM about an early pick-up/don't take the bus home than the other way around.[/quote]

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