KARORI PRIMARY APP SENDS 47 NOTIFICATIONS ABOUT MUFTI DAY, PARENT'S PHONE GIVES UP
Forty-six were reminders. The forty-seventh corrected reminder twelve.
A Karori Primary parent's phone has been declared buggered after the school app sent 47 notifications about Friday's mufti day. One arrived at 5.47am. It reminded families that mufti day means not wearing the uniform.
The app was brought in two years ago to cut down on paper notices. It has instead replaced them with a steady drip of pings. One mother likened it to "being haunted by a ghost who's also on the PTA."
Fiona Marchbanks, 41, of Standen Street, silenced the app on Wednesday. She then missed an actual lockdown drill notice on Thursday. "Forty-seven pings about a gold coin donation. Not one about the drill. The dog knew more than I did."
A school spokesperson said the notifications were "layered to ensure reach across the parent community." Asked whether 47 was a lot for one non-uniform day, the spokesperson confirmed two of them were reminders about the reminders.
In 1974 the school sent home one note on yellow paper. You read it. You wore the clothes. Nobody pinged anybody. I'm not saying it was better. I'm saying my phone still worked by Friday.
Mufti day raised $312 for the Year 6 camp. The app sent a notification about it. Then another one.
The app was brought in two years ago to cut down on paper notices. It has instead replaced them with a steady drip of pings. One mother likened it to "being haunted by a ghost who's also on the PTA."
Fiona Marchbanks, 41, of Standen Street, silenced the app on Wednesday. She then missed an actual lockdown drill notice on Thursday. "Forty-seven pings about a gold coin donation. Not one about the drill. The dog knew more than I did."
A school spokesperson said the notifications were "layered to ensure reach across the parent community." Asked whether 47 was a lot for one non-uniform day, the spokesperson confirmed two of them were reminders about the reminders.
In 1974 the school sent home one note on yellow paper. You read it. You wore the clothes. Nobody pinged anybody. I'm not saying it was better. I'm saying my phone still worked by Friday.
Mufti day raised $312 for the Year 6 camp. The app sent a notification about it. Then another one.