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Jan. 14, 2019
Remind Text Messages will be discontinued as of Jan. 28th....
I received this letter from the Remind team.
Dear Customer:
We’re sorry to write with disappointing news. Recently, we learned that Verizon will be charging Remind a new fee that makes it impossible for us to continue supporting free text messaging for anyone who has Verizon Wireless as their phone carrier. Please read on for all the important details—we promise to keep this as short as we can.
What’s happening?
To offer our text messaging service free of charge, Remind has always paid for each text that our users receive or send. Now, Verizon is charging Remind an additional fee intended for companies that send spam over its network. Your Remind messages aren’t spam, but our efforts to resolve the issue with Verizon haven’t been successful.
As a result, the Verizon fee will increase our costs of providing text messaging by 11X—pushing our annual costs into the millions of dollars. This isn’t financially feasible for us to support, and it’s forcing us to end Remind text messaging for everyone who has a wireless plan with Verizon.
How will this affect you?
Beginning January 28, 2019, the people in your classes who normally get your Remind messages as texts will no longer receive these messages if they have Verizon Wireless as their phone carrier.
What can you do?
To make sure people in your classes continue receiving your messages, ask them to download the mobile app or enable email notifications—both of which are free of charge. Our team’s also working hard on a solution that allows your classes to continue to use Remind by text, and we’ll share more details with you before January 28.
In the meantime, we’ll keep fighting to make sure educators, students, and parents have access to effective communication. To do this, we need your help: If using Remind has made a positive impact in your classroom, at your school, or anywhere in between, please ask Verizon to reverse the fee here: www.remind.com/verizon-fee
We’re very grateful for your support, and we’ll be in touch soon with an update.
Sincerely,
The Remind team
If this affects you and you want to continue to use remind to receive the newsletter, please download the app to continue to receive the text message system. And please ask Verizon to reverse the fee here: www.remind.com/verizon-fee
If you would prefer to receive the newsletter by email, please send me an email and I will send you the link.
Thank you so much for assistance and help with this matter.
Sincerely,
Mrs. Haile
2nd Grade
Next week, we will add and subtract through the thousands place. We will also start timed addition facts on Mondays. We took our first one last Monday, and everyone did a great job. If your student is not fluent with their addition facts, please practice at home. Please continue to complete homework nightly.
3rd Grade
The following week, we will start our unit on Fractions. Continue to practice the basic multiplication and division facts nightly.
5th Grade
Gwin Oaks Elementary
Email: michele_haile@gwinnett.k12.ga.us
Location: 400 Gwin Oaks Drive, Lawrenceville, GA, USA
Phone: 770-972-3110