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 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. 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.
+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 of either type or variety, 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. 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.
+If you don't want the Silent Dismissal Parent Connect app then don't install it. If you have already installed it then uninstall it.
 ===== 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.
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 Even though this process doesn't have a specific, attributable cost like the purchase of an All Access subscription you can be well assured that there is a cost associated in the form of stress and fatigue on the part of every staff member attempting to do their best every day while knowing that at least one person is going to complain and in most cases no one will appreciate the effort.
-Schools and school staff should be allowed to make instructional teaching their chief priority but the dictates of parents are often preventing that. As a society it seems that nearly everyone believes that they are entitled to extra consideration beyond having their children educated and are not willing to shoulder any of the burden.
+Schools and school staff should be allowed to make instructional teaching their chief priority but the dictates of parents are often preventing that. As a society it seems that nearly everyone believes that they are entitled to extra consideration beyond having their children educated and are not willing to shoulder any of the burden. If you are reading this page and thinking that you shouldn't have to pay an annual subscription then you may be one of those people.
 ===== The Hard Truth =====
-You may be one of those parents that has unachievable expectations such that the effort of meeting your needs outweighs the level of effort that the staff are willing to undertake and may have deleterious effects on the operation of the school as a whole.
+You may be one of those parents that has unachievable expectations such that the effort of meeting your needs outweighs the level of effort that the staff are willing to undertake and may have deleterious effects on the operation of the school as a whole and which may be adversely affecting their ability to educate students other than your own.
 If you are a parent who