iPhone App for Messaging groups individually?

[zippyfrog]

I was wondering if anyone knows if this type of app exists for the iPhone. I want to be able to send a text message to a group of numbers, but I don't want it to be sent as a group, rather an individual text or iMessage to each member group. Whenever I send group messages right now, I copy and paste to each number so that if someone responds to it, then I am the only one that sees it and not the entire group. Plus I do work with some minors whose parents have not given permission for their cell numbers to be make public, so I can't have them listed in a group.

Anyone have a solution for this? I tried two different apps from the App store, and all they appear to be is creating a group and a single message being sent to everyone in the group that whenever someone responds everyone sees the result as opposed to a single message being sent to each number.

 

[osu1991]

Would it work if you just turn group messaging off in the iOS settings

 

[zippyfrog]

I have never tried that before. I will try that. If it is that easy, that would explain why there is no app for it.