If you're a parent within the Keller Independent School District, you should have received the e-mail notification about the Remind app concerning the fee assessment they were anticipating incurring for sending SMS text messages to patrons on the Verizon Wireless network.
Fortunately for KISD, they likely have a school district plan in place allowing them to continue to send for free. However, as patrons who might be on a Verizon plan, we don't have that luxury to have a "classroom" that isn't a true instructional forum ensuring we remained in that free umbrella.
And although Remind and Verizon have apparently entered into an agreement as of today, I'm unclear if it's only for education institutions K-12 (which we clearly aren't) and, frankly, don't we all have more important things to do than research fee assessments of unnecessary apps?
Therefore, Pack 1910 is no longer going to utilize Remind at this time because Scoutbook already has a feature built in enabling us to use text notifications! So, in essence, we have our own Remind service, we just need to ensure that our parents put their information in the system to receive those alerts.
Follow THIS plan to input your cellular information into Scoutbook and give leadership permission to send you text alerts. You will still receive the notifications via e-mail for meetings and events as usual, however, this additional text feature will enable us to ensure you are notified of any last minute changes, receive urgent event reminders and, more importantly, is available to ALL Pack leadership and NOT just the owner of our Remind account.
Thank you to Ryan Smith for creating this quick tutorial allowing our parents to make this change on their profile(s).
Parents, please update your information in the system TODAY!
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