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    From Rob Mccart@1:2320/105 to AUGUST ABOLINS on Tue Mar 4 01:17:00 2025
    Possibly an alternative would be to find a way to block
    calls during class from everyone but their parents,

    How about teachers run through a verification process that all
    >phones are in airplane-mode at the beginning of the class?

    That would do what the teachers want but it is a total kill of
    the phone too so no different than taking the phones away from
    the kids.

    Being old school I don't see the need for kids to have a phone
    with them during class but younger parents are probably as
    fanatical about having a phone all the time as the teenagers
    are these days.

    In Ye Good Olde Days, if there was an emergency, parents phoned
    the school and had them fetch the kid from class but I guess
    that isn't good enough anymore.

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  • From Kurt Weiske@1:218/1 to Rob Mccart on Tue Mar 4 07:59:00 2025
    Rob Mccart wrote to AUGUST ABOLINS <=-

    In Ye Good Olde Days, if there was an emergency, parents phoned
    the school and had them fetch the kid from class but I guess
    that isn't good enough anymore.

    I had a scheduling change with my wife yesterday and was forced to go
    into the office. I was running late because of traffic (2 hour commute)
    and was able to coordinate my daughter going home with a friend and me
    picking her up from there. Not an emergency, but solved easily with a
    discrete text message checked outside of the classroom.



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  • From Rob Mccart@1:2320/105 to KURT WEISKE on Thu Mar 6 01:59:00 2025
    In Ye Good Olde Days, if there was an emergency, parents phoned
    the school and had them fetch the kid from class but I guess
    that isn't good enough anymore.

    I had a scheduling change with my wife yesterday and was forced to go
    >into the office. I was running late because of traffic (2 hour commute)
    >and was able to coordinate my daughter going home with a friend and me
    >picking her up from there. Not an emergency, but solved easily with a
    >discrete text message checked outside of the classroom.

    Yes, which is fine. I don't think anyone wants kids to be cut off
    from parents or even friends as long as it isn't interfering with
    classes unless it is a dire emergency.

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  • From Kurt Weiske@1:218/1 to Rob Mccart on Thu Mar 6 07:00:54 2025
    Rob Mccart wrote to KURT WEISKE <=-

    Yes, which is fine. I don't think anyone wants kids to be cut off
    from parents or even friends as long as it isn't interfering with
    classes unless it is a dire emergency.

    I can understand the desire to draw very specific lines, or to exclude
    all phone calls. A 15-year old can have dire dating emergencies, hair emergencies, clothing choice emergencies... :)



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