“Thats great. We are discussing boys in Mesivta. If chas veshalom there is an emergency, the yeshiva has a phone, and will surely usde it to contact you. If chas veshalom there is an emergency and you must contact your son, the same telephone will get you in touch with your son.”
You could not be more wrong, I am afraid to tell you. I once had a real emergency (my father-in-law O”H, fell and my husband and I were going to be at the hospital ER with him all day. I tried calling the Yeshivah to let my son know we would not be home and he should go to a friend. I also needed to let the school know, so they would ALLOW him to go home with the friend. I could NOT get through to the school at ALL. I was put into the voice mail menu, and kept getting disconnected at one point. I finally called my son’s friends’ mother, and asked her to pick my son up, and to explain the situation to the Yeshivah, hoping they would not give her a hard time about taking him home without prior written notice or a personal call from us. Fortunately they knew her for several years and took her at her word (some schools would not do so under any circumstances, and I actually respect them for that). The point is, calling the Yeshivah is not all it is cracked up to be.