Texas HB 1698 requires Dallas ISD students to keep phones off and stored all day. StudentMsg routes your text to their school email — and their reply comes straight back to your phone. No app. No phone at school. Just the connection you need.
Dallas ISD was among the first large Texas districts to fully implement the HB 1698 phone ban. Phones must be powered off and stored in backpacks or lockers from first bell through dismissal on all 230+ campuses.
Community Impact
The Texas phone ban isn't just a classroom rule — it removed the fastest communication channel between parents and students across Dallas County.
With 145,000 students across Dallas ISD, the phone ban affects tens of thousands of families in communities from Oak Cliff to Preston Hollow. It's one of the most sweeping communication disruptions in the history of the district.
"My son is at a Dallas ISD high school with 3,000 kids. When practice gets cancelled I used to get a text. Now I'm sitting in the parking lot for 45 minutes not knowing. There has to be a better way."— Dallas ISD parent, North Dallas
How It Works
StudentMsg works in both directions — you can reach your student any time, and your student can reach you any time. It all runs through the school email account Dallas ISD already set up on their device.
Text your StudentMsg number from any phone. It arrives instantly as an email on your student's Dallas ISD-issued device. No phone required at school.
Your student can also start the conversation — they email their StudentMsg address from their school device any time. That email arrives on your phone as a text within seconds.
Reply to their text and they get another email. They reply and you get another text. Back and forth, private, instant — and the school office never needs to be involved.
Works Both Ways
Whether you need to tell your Dallas ISD student about a pickup change — or they need to tell you something they'd never say through the nurse's office — StudentMsg handles both directions privately and instantly.
Your student's school inbox is already flooded — district announcements, teacher emails, class notifications, Canvas alerts. If you email them directly, your message competes with all of that. When they need you right now — sick in class, ride fell through, something they'd never tell the office — they need their message to land as a text on your phone, not an email buried in your work inbox. StudentMsg converts their school email reply into an instant text alert. The email is just the delivery channel. What lands on your phone is a text.
Pricing
No contracts. Cancel anytime. Both plans work on every Dallas ISD campus.
FAQ
Nearby Districts
Every district near Dallas follows the same Texas phone ban. StudentMsg works for all of them.
Set up StudentMsg in under 5 minutes. Your student checks their school email — that's it.
Start for $8/month — No Contract