look at how you turned out!

>each others emergency contacts and our daughters emergency
>contact. There are dangers in my line of work as well as the
>fact that my commuting method has inherent risks. If there's
>an emergency at school involving our daughter they're going to
>call both parents. Since she's in care here where I work, any
>sort of emergency may very well affect both of us...thus my
>wife is on deck and needs to be able to get that call.... She
>needs to keep that phone with her during the day.

...if your daughter's school leaves a message on your wife's phone she will receive it.

or maybe your wife should consider giving your daughter's school her work phone number so maybe she can be paged if she's not at her desk when the school calls.

but really...LOL. it's fine if the school calls and your wife doesn't get the call the minute it's made. we all managed to survive back when that kind of thing happened regularly. back before we all expected anyone to pick up the phone each and every time we called no matter what. the world kept turning.