> [...] and he couldn't even pick up his kids without a gmail or apple account.

How so?

jasonjayr 6 hours ago | parent | next [-]

A lot of schools use apps like 'ParentSquare' to interact and manage the student/teacher/parent relationship, and do not offer the same level of communication through traditional channels anymore.

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SoftTalker 6 hours ago | parent | next [-]

This is because social media has trained today's young parents to be completely entitled assholes and teachers can only take so much of their abuse. What teacher is going to want to sit down for a conference with a parent who whips out a phone to record the meeting and then posts selectively edited excerpts online in order to get a few upvotes on a social platform.

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prmoustache 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

And these apps require a google account?

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jasonjayr 5 hours ago | parent [-]

They require a phone that can log into an App store, so unless parents can work around that, then yes?

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jjulius 3 hours ago | parent [-]

Nonsense. My kid just started kindergarten this past year - I've never been required to log into ParentSquare through a GMail address and I have only ever accessed it through a browser on a laptop.

(Damn, I failed at my attempt to stop posting.)

	▲	joquarky 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		The web is no better than phone apps when it comes to data gathering. Maybe the data is a little fuzzier, but you can be assured it's being gathered all the same as it is in phone apps.

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devsda 6 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

In our part of the world that's Meta/WhatsApp.

All school and class related information is shared exclusively via WhatsApp communities.

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oceansky 6 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

He needed to verify his identity via an app at pick up time, and needed an gmail/apple account as part of the process. I don't remember which app.

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rolph 4 hours ago | parent [-]

bring my kids now or i will call the police and you will be charged with abduction.

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mvanbaak 19 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

and how are you going to prove your ID? you might as well be the one abducting them, and especially if you refuse to use an app to identify yourself... (playing devils advocate here)

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joquarky 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

You must have a complexion on the lighter side if you think calling the police is the best solution to something like this.

	▲	rolph an hour ago \| parent [-]
		thats about as calm as it gets, if my kids were abducted because im not using an app.