Use remind.com and connect through your school. It should automatically connect your admin, but if it doesn't, add them. Still have the convenience of texting and sending announcements, but no personal numbers are exchanged, it's school-affiliated and your admin is connected. CYA. Source: 11 months ago

We usually recommend that teachers use remind.com instead, if available. Source: about 1 year ago

It sounds like remind.com and omella.com have made some routine tasks at bit easier. Are there others that you'd pay to automate? Source: over 1 year ago

Our district has a Remind account. A principal I was in a meeting with today was talking about PeachJar. Source: over 1 year ago

For example, a male student of mine a couple years ago texted me (through remind.com - an archived and vetted messaging program used by schools) that his mom was in the hospital about 30 miles away (this was true). She had to stay an extra two or three days and he needed to go back and forth. He also had to get to his work. He needed gas money. So, I met him at a gas station and he filled his tank and I paid... Source: about 2 years ago

And when you do need google, you can always just add `!g` to your search query. There are a bunch of other useful ones [0], my favorite is probably `!w` [0] https://duckduckgo.com/bangs. - Source: Hacker News / 9 days ago

Check out https://duckduckgo.com/bangs you can dump into pretty much any site, Wikipedia, YouTube, Spotify, Google Translate from the DDG search bar if you have a few favorite bangs memorized. You can put the ! anywhere in the query for it to be picked up as well. - Source: Hacker News / 29 days ago

Seriously, I'm surprised at how many devs haven't seen DuckDuckGo's bangs: https://duckduckgo.com/bangs I use them all the time for work. !mdn for MDN, !dnab for .NET, !npm for NPM, !py3 for Python3 docs, !debman for Debian Manpages, !w for Wikipedia, !a for Amazon, !g for Google when you really need it. I'm not affiliated with DDG; I just really, really love it. - Source: Hacker News / 4 months ago

I think everyone in the thread knows about "search engines" in Chrome and bookmark keywords in Firefox. The crux of the issue is that there are more than 10,000 bang commands in DDG. Setting up even a popular subset in any given browser is a significant investment. It's fine if it's the browser you use 99% of the time, but for those spanning multiple computers, phones, and other devices, simply using bang... - Source: Hacker News / 5 months ago

Where is the place to add personal bangs to DuckDuckGo? I can't find it in https://duckduckgo.com/bangs or https://duckduckgo.com/settings. - Source: Hacker News / 5 months ago