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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It’s the between class time that is problematic - that is time when they should be hanging out with their friends and socializing, not idling on their phones or waiting to hear from their moms - which I’m sure contributed to anxiety, like worrying that they will miss a text from you and not respond etc. Somehow we all handled our school lives without communicating with our parents all day. And I definitely get it, I have a teenager and sometimes I need to get him a message during the day also but the benefits of not having a phone far outweigh the drawbacks in my mind. [/quote]

I purposely don’t text people until a convenient time for them. Nanny before she shows up, kid after last period, spouse in the morning not late at night

Why would you want to bother your kid during school about something after 3pm?

And they need to turn off their 50 alerts a day. No one needs to shop the aviators sale between classes bc they got an ad. [/quote]

As a teacher I once had a 5th grader leaving class to go sneak text their mom test scores/big news… the mom also worked in the school. You’d be shocked at how clueless some parents are.[/quote]

I once had a kid with an apple watch, whose parent decided to send a string of texts yelling at her, and threatening her with punishment because she hadn't put her dish in the dishwasher before leaving for school.  These texts arrived during a math test, causing kid to burst into tears, disrupting the test for her and for every other kid in the room.

Did the parents not know their kid was in school?  [/quote]

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