That's such bullshit.
- There is no emergency that require students to contact anyone. Communication can go through the school
- Parents have no business tracking their kids when they're at school
The tracker sends a notification when they're not at school, that's the point. Plus, I can lock down social media apps only during school hours. Blanket statements like this are plain ignorant. Also, I'm glad Utah finally passed a similar ban. Phones in use in class are a tremendous distraction 99% of the time.
Also you don't need to track your kids to enable school time mode, if you want to lock down their phone during school.
What are you going to do when they go to college? Track them? Monitor them? Make sure they go to classes?
At some point, you just have to trust your kids to do the right thing. It's a part of them learning how to grow up and be independent. It's better to make mistakes the younger you are so you can learn from them when there is less on the line.
Where I live we get a phone call the same day if our kids miss a class without prior notice.
Though they started to my senior year. You'd get detention or even suspension if you did it too much. It was especially problematic with us in the AP/IB programs. My older sibling's class (AP/IB) ditched so much it was messing with the state attendance records.
But maybe they didn't call because we were in the advanced programs. The people ditching the most were the ones getting good grades. The school still has a pretty good ranking in California (top 20%).
And frankly, if they called... just delete it off the answering machine before your parents got home.
Or the other thing, get your elder sibling to call you out. Or call in pretending to be the parent or elder sibling. People did that all the time. It's not like the school knows your parents' voice. And well, now that's easy to fake, right?
> messing with the state attendance records whut?
At a basic level parental controls exist for a reason. I didn't make these products. Using them isn't the same as tracking your kids. Calling attentive parents names on the internet is stupid as is allowing phones in K-12 schools which is the point of the thread. Congrats on successfully skipping high school classes so well, troll
I'm in no way suggesting people ditch school nor that school is useless. This is a gross misinterpretation of my comment.
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> Calling attentive parents names on the internet is stupid
I think this mostly boils down to our ever-connected society producing unreasonable expectations of communications. It is a very, very recent phenomena that you can instantly contact whoever whenever you want. Previously, it was common place to be unreachable for most of the day.
Realistically, your kid will survive, and even thrive, if you are not able to contact them for 8 hours a day. There is a downside to this kind of tether. It's a new type of ever-present anxiety, like someone breathing down your neck. Half of raising kids is teaching them what to do. The other half is leaving them alone, so they can learn to be competent adults.