Parent–School Comms
Family messages even we can’t read, and calls that happen in a supervised window — privacy and oversight, both honoured.
- Parents
- Students
- Comms officers
- Counsellors
Scheduled call
Chemistry catch-up
With Mr. Okello · S3 Sciences
Joan Atim
Your daughter · S3 East
Audio call · at the supervised station
What it does
Family messages even we can't read.
End-to-end family messages
Parent–child messages are encrypted on the device; the server stores only ciphertext and can never read them.
Mediated scheduled calls
Calls happen in an approved window at the supervised station — not on a personal phone, and never unscheduled.
Auditable broadcasts
Send to a class, a year or the whole school, with delivery you can audit and a policy engine that vets the message.
Voice notes
Asynchronous voice notes give a warmer channel than text for families who prefer to speak.
Why it’s different
The school can’t read the family’s messages. By design.
Parent–child conversations are end-to-end encrypted — the comms officer sees that a message was sent, never its contents. Governance channels (broadcasts, escalations) stay fully on the school’s side, so privacy for families and oversight for the school are not in tension.
Genuine family privacy, while the school keeps governance on its own channels.
Parent
encrypts
Server holds ciphertext
Child
decrypts
The comms officer can see that a message was sent — never what it said.
Term II opens Monday
Broadcast · S3 parents · sent 14:02
128
Sent
124
Delivered
109
Read
The artifact
A message the server can’t open.
Encrypted on the parent’s device, stored as ciphertext, decrypted only on the child’s — the school holds no key. The metadata is auditable; the words are not.
See parent comms in a walkthrough.
See parent–school on your own school’s data in a guided pilot — import, training and a full term of support included.