[Tax-chick]

If they need their parents, they can go to the office and have them call.

Is it just me, or did other people manage to attend school for a dozen years without needing to contact their parents more than a handful of times?

[hoosierham]

There is such a thing as too much communication!

Watch modern television and note the rapid-fire way so many shows and commercials are presented. Seem to promote ADD in that the subject changes every 15 seconds!

Online cloud storge is only going to make it worse because if there is no net access many won’t be able to function having never learned the use of simple tools and their own brain.

[nascarnation]

I remember getting sick a couple times in grade school and the lady in the office called my Mom. I don’t think I ever had direct contact in 13 yrs.

[rktman]

LOL! Calling my folks was the last thing I wanted when I was a kid because it probably meant I was in trouble.

[oh8eleven]

Is it just me, or did other people manage to attend school for a dozen years without needing to contact their parents more than a handful of times?
And in all those years, how many fellow students had gender identity problems, peanut allergies and attention deficit disorders?
I do not like the direction this country is headed.

[samtheman]

I never needed to contact my parents. Neither did my 3 siblings. That’s zero contacts in 52 years.

[KittyKares]

I never needed to call my mom either. If I got sick, the principal’s office had a phone. I wonder what the kids call their parents about? Because the mean teacher gave them a poor grade on their paper?

[mom of young patriots]

I needed to get my phone-less freshman a message several times last year concerning after school schedule changes and such. When I called the office to ask them to get the message to him, there would be much fumbling and stuttering about how that should be accomplished. After one such request, the receptionist told me that they really don’t have a good way to get a message to a student and doesn’t my son have a phone? I replied simply, “No”. I thought this was a rather ridiculous question with a rather obvious answer and didn’t feel the need to justify my reasons to her.

So, it seems that there is no longer a mechanism for parents to communicate without providing a radiation generating device for our children to hold up to their still developing heads. Luckily, my kid is responsible and I gave him a pay as you go flip phone for emergencies which he keeps off in his pocket because it is very practical to have, but this mindless rush to dismantle other means of communication is disturbing.