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Why Do I have to Pay for an All Access Subscription?

In most cases the simple answer is: you do not have to.

For some of you, you may have to accept the hard truth.

Benefits

The principal benefits of an All Access subscription are:

  • The ability to remotely make changes to end of day plans for a student
  • Send a prompt message to the student that will appear during dismissal
  • Get real time notifications during dismissal of the process
  • Receive information alert messages from the school that may necessitate changes in dismissal plans

Offer to Sell vs. Compelled to Purchase

If you don't care about getting any of these benefits then you don't have to make a purchase.

When you go into a grocery store and the store has organic vegetables for sale for a higher price than for non-organic vegetables you don't question why the store is telling you to buy the higher priced organic vegetables. They are offering the option to buy them, not forcing you to buy them. For that matter, you may not even like vegetables so you don't want to buy any, but you don't ask the store to take out the produce section because you don't want to be inconvenienced by having to walk through it, you either bypass it or you pass through it quickly. It may inconvenience you but you don't expect the store to not serve other customers just because you don't want to buy produce.

Access Should Not Cost Anything

Really? Why not? You can get television signals for free over the air with an antenna but a lot of people still pay for cable or satellite TV. If you don't pay for television you don't expect that you will get to watch ESPN™ even though when you do pay for service you will still have to watch advertisements on many of the channels.

If you go to a movie theater and there are empty seats left over should the movie theater just let people walk in and sit in those seats? It won't cost the theater more money to run the projector if the seats are empty or full. It doesn't cost a stadium more money to let someone sit in empty seats at a ball game or a concert, either, but no one expects them to give those seats away at no charge.

The Hard Truth

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