To ask school to stop sending me these texts?

Sounds like yr kids behaviour needs addressing, as the parent its yr job.

Awk behave ur self

Yes OP teachers are in their workplace and shouldn’t be bothered by children! 😂

Once the kids are in school SirAlfredSpatchcock part of their job is making sure the kids get to class. Teachers job isn’t just sitting at a desk and tapping the board with a ruler 😂

You are funny 🤣

100% this

I don't think you are being unreasonable. If kids are late, do they not get detention? I think the school should be dealing with lateness during school hours, not the parents. If they are persistently late then fair enough, the teacher can contact you to have a chat about their punctuality. I understand why you find it unreasonable to receive messages whilst you are working. If the school isn't careful it becomes like the boy who cried wolf. Too many notifications and you might miss something important. IMO, better to have a conversation if lateness is an issue rather than drip-feed text messages without any context. Why are they late? Do lessons finish on time? How far is it between classes? Is there a valid reason why they are late? If it's happening regularly with all 3 of your children, it suggests to me that there is something not quite right.

This.

Take some responsibility - the volume of texts you refer to shows that there is clearly an issue. They are disrupting lessons and the education of others by arriving late.

And I’m not slagging pupils off, I’ve seen it with my own eyes on a daily basis. There are some fantastic pupils out there who don’t need telling by their parents to behave , they’ve been brought up to do so.

Hm, amazing how it’s always the same 2 or 3 kids isn’t it? 🤔 Tgey don’t get lost after the first 2 weeks of year 7 (when allowances are made). After that, they’re farting or dicking about

You misunderstand,I haven’t explained myself very well. I’m not advocating detention, a previous poster was . And I should have said that the majority of pupils manage to get to class quickly . A warning bell at the end of break is fine, but between lessons this wouldn’t work.For the persistent minority who do cause disruption for the teacher and other pupils I do think that parents should be informed.
There’s a difference between a pupil being late for a specific reason, and a pupil who is late constantly.

@Spinet "teenagers tend to do the opposite..."
No. I teach hundreds of different teenagers. There are some with ODD, but it is rare.
However, mostly they understand organisation and the importance of punctuality.

You are still the parent. It doesn't matter if they are at school and you at work.

It should be your problem, as above, talk to your kid instead of moaning against the school

So an entire class and their teacher should put up with disruptions and interruptions to their work because of your children, but you shouldn’t?

I am well aware about students coming from different classes, @Nicelynicelyjohnson .
I have 7 in my GCSE group who come from a different block
They're a couple of minutes after the others, it's not a problem. Please realise that whatever problem you have identified - we've already identified it.
If someone doesn't want to do a GCSE because they have an issue with a ks3 teacher, I'm going to say that defies logic, and I've no idea why someone would make such an irrational choice about their future rather than the parent contacting school and getting a solution.

Of course they're all important to some degree and it's not convenient to ring every parent about the boiler.

PP were suggesting OP ignore app messages while at work as anything urgent would be a phone call - I was merely pointing out that actually, the app messages can be more "urgent", such as making sure someone will be able to pick up/be at home for their child who needs to leave school unexpectedly!

I kind of agree with you but we are both being unreasonable. My DC leave the house with plenty of time to get to tutor on time (5 min walk and they leave half hour before school starts) one is semi regularly late and I get an automated message. I have spoken to him but as his attendance is 97/98% I haven't put sanctioned at home as I think that school should first (he has never had a detention for being late).

Schools really can't win!

It's really interesting that you jump straight to punishment and slagging off young people rather than actually thinking about some systematic change that makes them responsible for their own actions. My own school (years ago) gave a warning bell before the end of break times to help being on time, and it worked.

Teenagers tend to enjoy doing what their parents have told them not to, it's one of the features of teenagehood isn't it. Having parental crackdowns every ten minutes might get them to do the desired behaviour (unlikely) but is it going to make them self-motivated to behave well? No. Is it helping them to learn the correct course of action independently? No. It's the type of thing that results in adults at university claiming not to have been told how to do things or accepting any blame for wrongdoing, because their parents haven't been involved in chasing them to do it every 5 minutes.

That's true, but then you run the risk of not being aware of things that are happening and then you'd be whingeing on here that the school haven't informed you of a problem such as finishing early, short notice school closure, upcoming events, etc. Ultimately, any kind of messaging is in the recipient's control as to how often to check, scheduling their responses, etc.

The whole class is not always coming from the same place.
My DC had a issue getting from PE to history - so sometimes he and 3 others were late. All given detentions, which were then removed when the reasoning was explained - but I would get the detention email and then the detention cancelled email.
DS consequently did not take GCSE history as he said it just wasn't worth the hassle!

Personally I don’t think you can opt out of these texts .

True, you probably can't; but there IS a very easy way to avoid receiving them!

Personally I don’t think you can opt out of these texts .

I presume they are auto generated by electronic registers - so if the kid not marked as being there - the computer automatically sends a text.

If your kid has a genuine emergency at school - I’m pretty confident they would pick up the phone and call you . If it’s a text about the school trip / school fair / another reminder about appropriate uniform etc you again don’t have to interrupt your day and log in / action it that second .

log in at your convenience - if they have been late with no plausible reason - you bollock them / sanction them as you feel fit.

…don’t let their automated system ruin your day!

But ALL messages that they send will be important to a greater or lesser extent. They aren't texting you to ask if you want to claim for being mis-sold PPI or to buy a duster for £35!

For something like boiler problems, snow days etc, a mass message is an ideal method of informing everybody quickly and efficiently. What else should they do - get all the staff to set up an ad-hoc call centre to phone every parent with the same message, and then find that lots of parents don't answer, or otherwise complain about being disturbed at work when they do?!

On the other hand, if your child had an accident or a medical episode requiring serious treatment (other than maybe a plaster or a couple of puffs of their inhaler before quickly feeling much better), THIS is when I'd expect them to call the parents.

Would school send something urgent on the school messaging system? My children's school uses the messaging system a lot, but for urgent things - like when my child has to go home early, school will ring me.

I think the school should be more responsible for things that happen at school than the parent.

If the child is sick at school, then I would respect their judgement that the child should be sent home.
Obviously school would not be involved in the evening meal.

I wouldn't know what I could actually do to stop my child being late to a lesson. Of course I can remind them of the importance of punctuality and I could say "no playstation if you're late again" but I would rather this was dealt with at school if it was an occasional thing, but would like to be involved if it was a more serious problem, like, he's always late for history, or late for a lesson on a daily basis.
The consequence of a punishment at school, missing lunchtime, detention or whatever is more relevant to the "crime" than something a parent would impose.

No. You misunderstand.
If it's the whole class, the individual child will not be registered as late.
If they are, it means that everyone else has arrived and they haven't.
It is communicating a problem to the parent. They then need to ask the children what the problem is.
No parent needs a "contextual email".
If the child is always later than other children, it's a problem.

Gosh yes, showers after PE !
Doesn't happen now, no time, although on another thread this week some people seem to be happy with their children wearing their PE kit to school, and all day after PE. 🤢ever been into a classroom of sweaty adolescents?