<p>I was awakened at 3am this morning (PST) to a cel phone call from my kids school on the East Coast letting me know that classes were cancelled today due to the NorEaster in Boston. LOL. Apparently their system dials everyone for any type of announcement whether it is a classes cancellation or a lockdown or more serious situation. I guess I’m glad to know it works…</p>
<p>Our HS does that also, worse part, It calls for each student, so I get 3 calls…love the system, but can’t they make a system where it recognizes they have called this number already?</p>
<p>My son’s high school has the honeywell instant alert system also. I was getting phone call on home, cell, work plus email. Unfortunately, they call at 5:30 am – and my son is on a year abroad this year. I luckily figured out how to turn off the phone alerts after being awakened twice so far this year for the child that is not home!</p>
<p>Ours also had an automated system that called when your child was absent without prior notification. Inevitably, this call was incorrect. However, they did not say WHICH child, so I have to first interrogate the three of them to find out which may have been late or had a legitimate reason to miss a class and then call the school to let them know the reason.</p>
<p>cnp55…we have honeywell, how do you block it? My friend was a teacher and here with a child in the system and she got the calls, not only for herself ut her daughter too!</p>
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<p>It’s good to know it worked but I don’t know what you’d be able to do with the info since you’re not the student. I wonder if they have some kind of tiered system where some messages go only to students but others can be more widespread.</p>
<p>My D received a few messages (I think they were text messages) from UCSD during the fires we had here this fall (UCSD shut down the campus). I never received the reverse 911 calls although others on the street apparently did so these systems seem to still have some glitches.</p>
<p>That’s what I was trying to say ucsd…if it had been a message about a fire or dangerous situation on campus I would have liked to know but there should be a tiered system so that I don’t get calls about classes being cancelled.</p>
<p>I think the website was instantalert.honeywell.com … it was hard to find the site. I went to the school’s website and went through the old news to find it. You cannot get there from honeywell.com or instantalert.com – those do not work. </p>
<p>The simplest thing is to call your school and ask! I was just doing this at 5 pm on Sunday night and couldn’t call!</p>