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by throwAGIway 720 days ago
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.