[throwaway22032]

The question I always have on these kinds of things is - what would we have done prior to cell phones?

What is stopping your mum from calling the school and having them pull you aside to let you know you are needed?

Am I that old that people have just forgotten what it was like when having a pager was like, a super rare thing for high end business folk?

[throwAGIway]

The question I always have... Do you really expect people to behave like it's 1980s? Nobody - not the teachers, not the kids, not the parents want that.

I went to school when mobile phones were just beginning to be a normal thing. It took just a year or two before the teachers were like "why the hell don't you just phone your mom yourself?" and "Miss, there is no need to involve us, just call your child and resolve it yourself".

I used to get pretty bad headaches, I just called my mom for permission to go home and went. It'd be much more painful if I had to chase a teacher and convince them they need to call my mom and tell her I need to go home.