DonaldnDaisy5
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I am an upper elementary teacher with 3 of my own kids at home. For the last 3 years I've used Remind (an app that allows me to send reminders to parents and will allow parents to message me - without giving either of us one another's actual phone numbers).
This year I've been messaged at all hours as early as 6:30 am and as late as 10:02 - with pretty trival questions "x is missing answer 4 on the study guide" and "what time is the Halloween parade?" for example. One easily answered on google, with the online text book, or actual book, the other listed in multile emails, reminds, newsletters, and in student planners.
I went into the app and set "office hours" thinking that would help, but it appears it just let's parents know they are sending messages outside of my office hours and they continue to send the messages/questions.
Clearly I won't be using this again. It is taking time away from my own kids and I just feel like its rude. Am I out of line? I totally get if its an emergency or an actual question that requires an immediate answer but at this point I feel like it is going too far especially since these kiddos are going to middle school next year and most of these questions are ones they should know.
This year I've been messaged at all hours as early as 6:30 am and as late as 10:02 - with pretty trival questions "x is missing answer 4 on the study guide" and "what time is the Halloween parade?" for example. One easily answered on google, with the online text book, or actual book, the other listed in multile emails, reminds, newsletters, and in student planners.
I went into the app and set "office hours" thinking that would help, but it appears it just let's parents know they are sending messages outside of my office hours and they continue to send the messages/questions.
Clearly I won't be using this again. It is taking time away from my own kids and I just feel like its rude. Am I out of line? I totally get if its an emergency or an actual question that requires an immediate answer but at this point I feel like it is going too far especially since these kiddos are going to middle school next year and most of these questions are ones they should know.