[gitmo]

In case of an emergency, I want to be able to get in touch with my sons.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

I suppose you could always do what we did in the good old days — call the school and have them find your son

[Lurker]

“In case of an emergency, I want to be able to get in touch with my sons.”

Home school then.

L

[cyclotic]

There is no emergency ever where you need to calm your kids when they are under the guidance of adults.

[ExGeeEye]

I’m sure my parents wanted the same thing.

Back then they would have had to call the school and have me fetched to the office.

A similar length of time before that, they would have had to send a runner or run themselves.

Technology has spoiled us.

[jjotto]

Religious Jews (and other concerned parents) have resorted to ‘kosher phones’ with varying levels of function.

https://koshermobile.com/shop-kosher#shop

[Chickensoup]

Call the school like everyone has done for a hundred years.

What’s wrong with you?

[ridesthemiles]

Millions of Americans alive today got by just fine without cell phones & texting all of their lives.
The ida tht you cannot get in touch with your son thru a middleman is nuts.

If there had been ANY kind of emergency in our family when I was growing up- The sheriff or local police department would have come to us. We were in School during the school days & available during the summer.

We also had a good system for emergencies-—

Using OUR Wall Mounted CRANK PHONE, a special ring sequence meant that everyone on the 20 party line was to PICK UP & ONLY LISTEN to what the emergency was & where it was.

When we had a SMALL electrical fire on the top floor of our dairy barn-—right by the large hay storage for feeding dairy cows in the winter. That system was used-—and 2nd-the volunteer fire department was called from 4 miles away.

Neighbors had the fire out before the fire department got there.

We have created a couple of generations that depend on cell phones & HELP FROM SOMEONE ELSE instead of doing the job ourselves.

It is PATHETIC.

[Aevery_Freeman]

The office has a phone and they know where your child is, or supposed to be, at all times.

We had schools before cell phones and survived.

Helicopter/blanket parents stunt a child's growth.

That said, I continue to advocate for Public School Abolition.