Compliant communication
I am in the HS setting and am wondering how others in this setting approach communication with parents and coaches?
Typically, I stick with email but I have had a few incidences of parents asking for a way to text me, especially over weekends or if I refer their child and they want to send updates. I tell them the best way to contact me is email or my work phone line (which forwards to my cell), but a couple have been adamant about texting. While they are adults I still don’t fully feel comfortable sharing my personal phone # with them. I don’t have a physical work phone either only a phone # operated through zoom but it doesn’t have texting abilities.
Secondly, with coaches it is usually email but every once in a while they will send me a text asking for an update on a kid. Trying to keep privacy in tact I abbreviate names and/or point them to my emails I send with updates.
I’ve been able to stick with email even through some pushback, but then I got curious. Are there options out there?
Has anyone encountered this and found solutions?