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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]1. We know AP didn’t call you, but did she call the school at all?
2. If she left the appointment an hour before pick up, school is 20 minutes from there, but she was 50 minutes late, where did she go?!
3. Did she say she needs to GET a new phone (and pay) or that she just needs a new phone (and wants you to pay)?
4. Was she using Waze, google map or something else?  Switch her to Waze immediately.  
5. How much communicating does she normally do?  Does school call her or you to pick up the kid?  What if kid gets sick with her at home?
6. How old is the child?

I don’t think her actions are okay at all, but I’m not sure if a reset conversation would be worth it.  Rematch is tricky, and sorting out the actual reason can be even worse.[/quote]

OP. Kindergartener. She left but says gps routed her a strange way (my guess is an increase in traffic caused rerouting to an unfamiliar area) and she spent the entire time driving around. I put waze on her phone during her first week, and she indicated she was using Waze and Google maps. School calls me, and I make the plan from there (she is closest to school since the house is 5 min away and my office is 45 min....which is why I pay for most of her phone services monthly, so she can be "on call" if needed). She didn't ask me to pay for her new phone but asked if I have an old iPhone she could have.  And no, AP did not call the school to tell them she was running late. [/quote]

Okay, so we’re not talking oblivious toddler or scared preschooler.  Why would school call you to arrange pick up?  Was this a special circumstance?  Or did they call once she was late?

If she was trying to use google maps and Waze simultaneously, I’m not surprised that she got lost and confused.  Waze will frequently route me down into Arlington and then back over a different bridge, going from Georgetown to downtown or NE dc.  Google tries to route me straight through rush hour traffic.  If she was listening to two conflicting sets of directions, she could have found herself miles from where she needed to be, with two different routes to get back.  And with both rerouting every time she thought she had her bearings, it just got worse.

I would suggest a reset conversation, solely for the lack of communication.  Explain (and have LCC back up!) that she should have called as soon as gps was telling her that she’d only have 5 extra minutes.  Getting lost isn’t the problem, it can happen to anyone, but if you’d known or the school had known, it wouldn’t have been such an issue.  In the same meeting, I would discuss using only one gps app at a time.  Waze has had several instances that it went on the fritz for me, so I opened google maps, but as soon as Waze was working again, I closed google.  She needs to understand that using two conflicting gps is worse than having two navigators in the car, because you can argue with a person holding a map![/quote]

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