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Anonymous
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Why for the love of God does MCPS send me regular emails and text messages about things I actually don’t need to know about? No, I don’t need to know about a student who got a full ride scholarship to college. I don’t need to know about school bus routes (my kid walks) and I don’t need to know about opting out of a required sex ed class since my kid is in kindergarten. This mass messaging is so non specific, innane, and irrelevant. It is a tremendous waste of the time and energy of thousands and thousands of parents to send us regular communications that are generic and often irrelevant to us. Does MCPS have any actual trained communicators working there? Why don’t they leave it up to individual schools to share relevant info and just stop with these stupid messages
communiques. As it is I am literally drowning in emails from our school PTA, listserv, principal, and my children’s teachers. For the love of God, if MCPS is going to send a mass email it should be relevant to 100 percent of the audience. |
Anonymous
| Then don't read it. You made me read THIS and I don't need to. Thanks for nothing. |
Anonymous
| Except I have to read it because there might be something relevant. And it’s buried in a bunch of crap I don’t need to know about. And they place literally thousands of parents in this position every time they send an email. |
Anonymous
| I like that there are specific points and find it easy to read. I read the points I want and ignore the rest, but I’m glad to get the info. Sorry it’s so frustrating for you. |
Anonymous
| I agree the blurb about the kid getting the full scholarship was odd. |
Anonymous
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I agree, OP. They started this last year, I think? Wish they would just save the energy and skip it.
Let schools send out relevant info. |
Anonymous
+1. Just skim the headlines and read whichever ones you want. Or not. |
Anonymous
If it's not about Larla it's not relevant! |
Anonymous
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Even messages from an individual school won’t always apply to you and yours. My kid is a sophomore who doesn’t play an instrument and is in the upcoming musical, but we still have read through the weekly bulletins about senior photos and orchestra concerts in order to find out about the drama fundraiser. But we did learn about a grounds cleanup that we’d otherwise not have known about.
Don’t you get messages from your workplace that don’t necessarily apply to you? Mine is pretty small, but I still get generic emails from HR, or have to sit in staff meetings where not every single point of discussion applies to or involves me. It’s not ideal sometimes, but I realize the world doesn’t revolve around me. Seriously, though, OP—the bottom line is that nobody has the staff or technology to create a customized messaging system for each student that would ensure nobody misses out on anything of interest to them. So we learn to skim. |
Anonymous
This is the problem. If they send communications and you miss it, MCPSs attitude is that it’s your fault. But then they inundate you with so much information that it makes it effectively a second job to sift through it all and then also to analyze and interpret what they are saying. |
Anonymous
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DCUM: MCPS doesn’t tell us what’s going on! They’re hiding things!!!
MCPS: Sends weekly bulleted list of things to know. DCUM: OmG!!! mAkE iT sToP!!! |
Anonymous
"MCPS's attitdue"? Really? You interact with "MCPS"? MCPS is a large organization. It doesn't give you attitude any more than they send individually selected information pertinent to each individual recipient. Get over yourself. |
Anonymous
this! someone always had something to complain about! |
Anonymous
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Sometimes I wonder how people make it through their days.
Mad because the school sent an email. Sigh. Good luck friend. You're in for a long ride. |
Anonymous
Op here. Yes, this is my point. Growing up my parents did not spend this much time on supporting me in school and they were not having to read upwards of 5-10 emails and communications per week and sift through each one to find the important points and action items for multiple kids, on top of both having to work. To assume all families have the time to read this stuff, the ability to read it at all (eg non English speaking families, folks who cannot read or have low literacy), is crazy. The administrative burden of having children has gotten far too high and it’s frankly lazy communicators at the county level who decide to just throw anything that “might” be important into an email of over 1,000 words and expect people to read it week after week. It places an incredible burden burden on families and particularly families with single parents or both parents who work. |