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Graham. wrote

Then tell the school about email and to stop wasting their money!

I wish! Someone has obviously told them that SMS is 'the way forward'

Or they worked out for themselves that it is a better approach than the web
site.

or some such bollix, so that is what they do. As mentioned earlier, they
have a perfectly good web site that was updated with emergency information
[1],

But that is nowhere near as useful as getting an SMS when the
bus won't be coming or will be late, because the web site needs
someone to check it every single day in case there is a warning
that the bus won't be coming or will be late. MUCH better to
be told by SMS that it won't be coming or will be late.

but that seems to have fallen behind the all new SMS service.

They should continue for both for the dinosaurs that refuse
to have a mobile phone or landline but can check the web site.

[1] Rural school, so most pupils travel by school bus. The web site used
to be updated whenever busses were delayed or cancelled due to weather,
school closed etc.

And an SMS is a much better way of doing that.

We are doing that for local emergencys like bushfires
and floods and mega wild weather now, broadcasts
by SMS to mobile phones in the area. Leaves web
sites for dead.