One thread per child, not one group per class.
Parents write to the teacher about their own child. Announcements reach the phone instead of the bottom of a school bag, and nobody hands out a personal number.
Three ways a school talks, all in one place.
- Step 01
A parent writes about their child
The thread is tied to one child and one class teacher. Nothing to mute, and no message meant for somebody else.
- Step 02
The teacher answers from the app
No personal number changes hands in either direction, and the school can see the thread if it ever needs to.
- Step 03
The school announces
A notice goes to the whole school or to one class, with term dates and events on the calendar the parent already has.
You may need this conversation in six months.
A parent disputes what a teacher said in March. If it happened in a class group on somebody's personal line, there is nothing you can check.
Administrators can read threads
Which protects the teacher as much as the parent. If a complaint comes months later, there is something to read.
No personal phone numbers
A teacher who leaves keeps her number and the parent keeps the thread. Neither one has to block the other.
Announcements are logged
Who sent it, when it went out and who it reached.
What proprietors ask about messaging.
- Our parents live on WhatsApp.
- So does everyone, and this does not replace that. This is for the messages a school may have to find again: what a teacher said about a child, and what the office told everybody.
- Will teachers be messaged at midnight?
- Threads are attached to a child and visible to the school, which changes how they get used. A teacher answers in the app during the day instead of on her own line at night.
- Can one parent reach every other parent?
- No. A parent writes to the teacher about their own child. Broadcasts go one way, from the school outwards.
Messages sit next to everything else.
The result a parent is asking about, the bill they are answering, and the change of collector they send on a wet morning. Same school, same app.
Fifteen minutes at your school.
No cost. We set up one class, one teacher and one parent, and you watch a thread work from end to end.