schoooools.com works in a natural way for you, because it's organized just like a real school. Everyone has its own role: the students are organized in classes manage by teachers. They communicate with their parents, that supervise their activity.
Being friend with other schoooools.com users, allows you to see their profile, published documents, shared albums, and communicate using messages and chat. Build your own friends network and keep closer to them, even if they aren't your classmates.
This contact networks - friends, students, teachers or parents - make the communication easier. Using Messages or Chat allows you to quickly be in touch with everybody, and you don't have to worry about keeping an email address or a phone number list.
Share more with your contacts, say to them what you are doing. Update your schoooools.com status, answering the question “What are you doing?”, and keep closer to people, even when you are far.