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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][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’m fine with the pouches. Don’t feel strongly one way or the other. But I do wonder how the front office is going to manage all the parents calling with schedule changes. And frankly the biggest communicator of mid day schedule changes and providing same day info during the day was my kid’s high school coach who was also a teacher at the school.

I bet a lot of kids get watches. Turn them on during lunch or switching classes or keep them on all day. [/quote]

Schedule changes. What did we do before phones?  They will turn their phone the instant they step out of school and get your message don’t worry. [/quote]

What if I need to pick my kid up early? You really think the office is going to give them that message? [/quote]

Yes[/quote]

Well that's nice for you, but my kid's school would not do that.[/quote]

So you show up for picking up your child early at the front office, and they ignore you and won’t page them?

Our elementary school has a Google form, I imagine high schools could do something similar, maybe ask your PTA.

How often is this a problem? Why are you jump scaring your kids with early pickups more than a couple times a year? What comes up that you can’t discuss in the morning?[/quote]

Aah, I see your kid is in elementary. Get back to me when they are in high school and aren't just in one place with a teacher all day. Then you'll see how high schools work. But thanks for telling me how this will go when you in fact have no idea. Have a seat. [/quote]

Instead of addressing my concerns, you're resorting to insults.  I was telling you what options exist from my youngest child’s experience.

I have two kids in high school as well, but I don't experience the "sudden" early releases. In fact, I rarely hear from them because they are generally responsible for their own transportation. They can take the school bus and ART for most activities, or just arrange their own carpool, so I'm not heavily involved except when it’s my turn to drive and that’s known well in advance.

It sounds like your kids may not be as independent as they should be at this stage in high school.[/quote]

If your kid is actually in high school go ask them how they pull up the ART bus schedule without using their phone. 
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Are they taking the bus during school?  That doesn't sound right.  Phones are available after school.[/quote]
The schedules are published. You can print them out, put a PDF in their school account, they may even have free maps and schedules at the public library. They also can know the route like 55 comes every 15 minutes.

They aren’t splitting the atom to catch a bus.

And as PP said, as they are walking out of school they can flip on their phone and look at all the bus schedules they wish. [/quote]

print them out? are you living in the 1980s? you sound like you are truly afraid of today's tech. and you clearly aren't very familiar with it. [/quote]

I’m in tech, and am certain I’m more versed in today’s tech than you will ever be.

They can print to a PDF and store on school laptop, they can physically print out the schedule, but most likely they will simply know which route and frequency of that route for where they usually go. I suspect I’m also more versed in how to ride a bus, but that’s how it is when you have to be self reliant at a younger age rather than have mom and pop paying for taxis. [/quote]

Sounds like you haven’t done this in a while and are out of touch now with your pdf printouts. [/quote]

What are you even talking about? Out of touch? It’s a freaking timetable, not an LLM API. It doesn’t need constant internet access. [/quote]

You've never heard of real time monitoring in the app? You really are living in the 90s. [/quote]

I’ve been using real time tracking of buses since it was SMS messages api.

I just don’t understand why you would need to know the real time schedule until the end of the day when student would actually be taking the bus. And that is when they are walking out the school door with a working phone to check the ART tracker.

Your desperation to build castles in the sky to justify why your child needs a phone are inane. [/quote]

I don't think you understand what high school days look like for a jr or a sr. All these parents of younger kids thinking they know what's best for 18 year olds is just insane.[/quote]

So I concretely retort how phone access is not necessary until they actually leave the building, and your response is some made up hand waving “you don’t know high school these days” nonsense. You can’t give one concrete example.

News flash I do have a Jr in high school; and I know they survive without their phone because I lock it up tight as Fort Knox with parental controls.  And they are thriving.

I would welcome a real reason how it’s different now that they need constant internet access through a phone all day. [/quote]

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