Friends I've talked to about it have been divided into two camps. Those with younger children (under age 10) have not liked it at all, seeing all kinds of issues with the teacher being able to text and kids having cell phones, and the parents not being included.
If you think about it, there are potential issues with any interaction between a teacher and their students. 99.99999% of all teachers are not going to abuse their ability to interact with students and are not going to want to cause harm in any way. The very few teachers who would take advantage of texting can and will most likely find a way to take advantage in a different way if texting isn't allowed.
Receiving a text from a teacher is probably one of the *last* things that would worry me that could potentially go wrong for my middle school kid
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