Texas HB 1698 requires Plano 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.
Plano ISD updated its student code of conduct to align with HB 1698, requiring personal phones to be off and stored throughout the school day on all 72 campuses. Plano's high-achieving communities expect strong academics — and now they also need a new way to stay connected.
Community Impact
The Texas phone ban isn't just a classroom rule — it removed the fastest communication channel between parents and students across Collin County.
Plano's 47,000-student district serves some of the most education-focused, technology-savvy families in Texas. The irony of being tech-forward yet communication-blocked during the school day made StudentMsg a natural fit for these families.
"Plano ISD kids are scheduled to the minute — tutoring, sports, dual credit, after-school programs. My son's schedule changes at least twice a week. I could handle it when he could text me between classes. Now it takes 3 back-and-forth calls to the school office to change a pickup."— Plano ISD parent, West Plano
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 Plano ISD already set up on their device.
Text your StudentMsg number from any phone. It arrives instantly as an email on your student's Plano 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 Plano 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 Plano ISD campus.
FAQ
Nearby Districts
Every district near Plano 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