text: Policy 1 is also better than policy 2 because if something happens to the student or parent, the parents would be able to contact them directly and not waste time. The student would be able to call the parents if they felt sick instead of having to go the nurse's office, checking if they were sick, and then called the parent. The student's parents might not recognize the phone number and could not pick up leaving their child at school- sick. This could result in the student getting worse, or them passing out during school all because the parent did pick up his/her phone because he/she did not know the number. Another reason for having policy 1 is if something happened to the parent they would be able to contact their child directly instead of having to find the school. After finding the school, they would have to call the number and that would take additional time that was not needed to be used. Also, if an early dismissal were to happen the student would need to contact the parent to pick them up. It would be easier to call them up during their lunch period than to have to wait after school to ask.