Texas HB 1698 requires Garland 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.
Garland ISD, covering Garland and Rowlett, implemented HB 1698's phone-free mandate across all campuses. With 55,000 students in a dense suburban district, the disruption to parent-student contact was felt immediately by families across these diverse communities.
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.
Garland ISD's rich cultural diversity means many families navigate school communication with extra challenges. The phone ban removed the simplest tool — direct contact — in communities that needed it most.
"Garland ISD is incredibly diverse — my kids' school has kids from dozens of countries. Many families I know don't even speak to the front office because of the language barrier. Texting their kids directly was the communication lifeline. StudentMsg helped restore that."— Garland ISD parent, East Garland
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 Garland ISD already set up on their device.
Text your StudentMsg number from any phone. It arrives instantly as an email on your student's Garland 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 Garland 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 Garland ISD campus.
FAQ
Nearby Districts
Every district near Garland 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