Texas HB 1698 requires Fort Worth 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.
Fort Worth ISD implemented the HB 1698 phone-free mandate across all 145+ campuses. Students must store phones from first bell to last bell. The policy was met with strong parent concern about losing the ability to reach children during the day.
Community Impact
The Texas phone ban isn't just a classroom rule — it removed the fastest communication channel between parents and students across Tarrant County.
Ninety thousand students in Fort Worth's diverse communities — from the TCU neighborhood to Haltom City — now live in a phone-free school environment. For the thousands of parents who relied on a quick text to manage their day, StudentMsg fills the gap.
"My daughter walks home from her Fort Worth ISD middle school. If she needs to let me know she's staying after, there's no way for her to reach me unless the teacher lets her use the classroom phone. That's 2005. StudentMsg brought us to 2026."— Fort Worth ISD parent, Ridgmar area
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 Fort Worth ISD already set up on their device.
Text your StudentMsg number from any phone. It arrives instantly as an email on your student's Fort Worth 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 Fort Worth 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 Fort Worth ISD campus.
FAQ
Nearby Districts
Every district near Fort Worth 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