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Anonymous wrote: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.

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.

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

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

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?

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.

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Anonymous wrote: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.

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.

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

Yes

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

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?

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Anonymous wrote: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.

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.

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

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

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Anonymous wrote: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.

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.

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

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Anonymous wrote:What do we do when we want to contact our kids when the high school goes into lockdown?

Start contacting your elected officials now and demanding real gun control. Join Moms Demand. Stop being complacent with the status quo re constant lockdown drills.

(And you will just need to deal with uncertainty in that situation, as parents of little kids do. Demand change now.)

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Anonymous wrote:What do we do when we want to contact our kids when the high school goes into lockdown?

I'd prefer to not have teachers' distracted by student's device uses, rather than focus on this one-in-a-billion-chance hypotheticals.

Happened 3x in month at Yorktown last year if I remember correctly.

Wait a minute, there were 3 shooting incidents at Yorktown monthly?! We need more than cell phones then!

Anonymous wrote:I thought people complained that kids spent too much time on their laptops. Can’t you email them a schedule change?

I hope that one thing that comes out of this is that coaches of high school teams will realize that last minute changes are ridiculous. People need to go back to making plans a little in advance.

Kids don't check their email constantly and no they don't always have their laptops on. They sure aren't pulling them out between classes in the hallways or opening them at lunch in the cafeteria. This is what phones are for.

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Anonymous wrote:What do we do when we want to contact our kids when the high school goes into lockdown?

I'd prefer to not have teachers' distracted by student's device uses, rather than focus on this one-in-a-billion-chance hypotheticals.

Happened 3x in month at Yorktown last year if I remember correctly.

Can we just have all these people obsessed with sports over school start a public school academy. Where they have monitors on all the walls so every team and player knows the minute to minute schedule. It’s already ruined college admissions, so let’s just break off the sports obsessed.

Anonymous wrote:I thought people complained that kids spent too much time on their laptops. Can’t you email them a schedule change?

I hope that one thing that comes out of this is that coaches of high school teams will realize that last minute changes are ridiculous. People need to go back to making plans a little in advance.

That would be nice, but hasn’t happened in our experience.

Anonymous wrote: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.

How many people do you think are trying to get a hold of their kid every day? Not as many as you think.

You have to put them in SchoolTime.

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Anonymous wrote: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.

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.

Schools have a huge number of kids. They don't have time to do that. What did we do? We had access to pay phones and would call at lunch or between classes.

So go to front office and ask to call your parents.

I thought people complained that kids spent too much time on their laptops. Can’t you email them a schedule change?

I hope that one thing that comes out of this is that coaches of high school teams will realize that last minute changes are ridiculous. People need to go back to making plans a little in advance.

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Anonymous wrote: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.

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.

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

I have never used my kids cell phone to tell them I am picking them up early even before the bans because I had told them to keep their phone in their locker and had a screen lock on it. Instead I went to the office, the school looked up where they were, called the classroom and they came down. this happened pretty rarely and only once unexpectedly (when my kid broke a bracket on their braces before school and I was not sure when I could get an appointment). How often are you picking you kid up early? Hopefully that is a pretty rare occurance. This was in a pretty big school.