Spoiled by technology?

This past week, my daughter came down with a bug that kept her home from school for a couple of days. Her school district has recently switched over to new "communication" system for parents, one which is supposed to allow us to keep up with grades and homework via the internet. Sounds like a good plan, except that on her first day home sick, none of her teachers' inforamtion was current. So I had to resort to e-mailing her teachers, which meant a full day turnaround to get her assignments. Now on day two of her sickness, while waiting for teachers to respond, she is now 2 days behind in her work. When she and her brother were first starting school, e-mail was still a novelty, and the only "technology" available to communicate was the phone. So, now she is 15, in high school, and we're frustrated that her teachers don't keep their web-pages current so that we have immediate access to what's going on in her classes. Interesting perspective . . .