Will Sunday night ConnectEd calls follow us into middle?

[Anonymous]

I hate these. We're on the second principal in the same school. The new principal sends a printed newsletter with hard info. Why do they have to interrupt our Sunday evening with stupid pleasantries? Do middle schools do these? Other ES?

[Anonymous]

Are you serious right now? Parents complain all the time about wanting to know what's going on in school and wanting communication. So now principals are ensure that every Sunday and here is someone complaining about a pre-recorded phone call/email and labeling it an interruption to receive an e-mail. Change you communication settings or don't answer.

MS and HS school principals all send a newsletter via ParentVue.

[Anonymous]

Our MS doesn’t have these. Just a weekly principal newsletter.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I hate these. We're on the second principal in the same school. The new principal sends a printed newsletter with hard info. Why do they have to interrupt our Sunday evening with stupid pleasantries? Do middle schools do these? Other ES?

Our ES doesn't, but if they did it wouldn't bother me. Why don't you just let it go to voicemail if it bugs you so much?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Are you serious right now? Parents complain all the time about wanting to know what's going on in school and wanting communication. So now principals are ensure that every Sunday and here is someone complaining about a pre-recorded phone call/email and labeling it an interruption to receive an e-mail. Change you communication settings or don't answer.

MS and HS school principals all send a newsletter via ParentVue.

I am serious because there is no real information. It is a completely fluffy waste of everyone's time. I don't need to feel like I'm best buds with the principal.

[Anonymous]

Here’s a suggestion, ignore the call and then delete the voicemail. Read the email version or don’t as you see fit. Then go into ParentSquare and opt out of phone calls in your settings.

[Anonymous]

Yes. And you can't block the number because it's the same number the school calls from if your kid is injured.

Just push Decline on the phone call. You'll also get the email and the text 30seconds later.

[Anonymous]

I know everyone's getting on OP for this, but MCPS does have a communication problem. There's too much and it makes it hard to determine whats actually important. They need to chill with all the messages. If you have kids in multiple schools, it's an extra challenge to determine when there's something very important sent, especially when the schools bury those important things in weekly newsletters sandwiched between the same content that will show up in every newsletter all year.

I wish schools only sent info home that is urgent or important, and save all the extra notifications/ organizational stuff for their website that parents can go to as needed.

Then MCPS itself needs to realize they send entirely too many messages out that are not essential and just clog up our inboxes and add to our communication fatigue. This is a case where less is more.

[Anonymous]

Yes, it will auto follow you to MS.
And why can’t the newsletter be in the email? I hate that the email is just a link to a newsletter. Makes it hard to search for information from older newsletters.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Are you serious right now? Parents complain all the time about wanting to know what's going on in school and wanting communication. So now principals are ensure that every Sunday and here is someone complaining about a pre-recorded phone call/email and labeling it an interruption to receive an e-mail. Change you communication settings or don't answer.

MS and HS school principals all send a newsletter via ParentVue.

90% of the information I get from MCPS is irrelevant to my child. Meanwhile getting specific information about my child such as missing standardized test results takes multiple email requests to multiple people.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Yes, it will auto follow you to MS.
And why can’t the newsletter be in the email? I hate that the email is just a link to a newsletter. Makes it hard to search for information from older newsletters.

THIS THIS THIS!! I try to search "picture day" or "yearbook" to get specific info and nothing pops up since it's all in a newsletter link! Can't someone copy/paste that into an actual email!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I know everyone's getting on OP for this, but MCPS does have a communication problem. There's too much and it makes it hard to determine whats actually important. They need to chill with all the messages. If you have kids in multiple schools, it's an extra challenge to determine when there's something very important sent, especially when the schools bury those important things in weekly newsletters sandwiched between the same content that will show up in every newsletter all year.

I wish schools only sent info home that is urgent or important, and save all the extra notifications/ organizational stuff for their website that parents can go to as needed.

Then MCPS itself needs to realize they send entirely too many messages out that are not essential and just clog up our inboxes and add to our communication fatigue. This is a case where less is more.

I have multiple kids in multiple schools and this honestly is not a concern. I read the principal newsletters each week so I'm informed about the on-goings at my kids schools and within the district. If them communicating in multiple ways annoyed me I'd update the communication settings in ParentVue or ignore the duplication. I just consider this being an engaged parent and reasonable adult. Difficultly level = 1.

[Anonymous]

I like the weekly phone call / email, which is school-by-school I think. We received it from middle school, but not from elementary or high school.

Agree with the PP that noted how some communication has become over-the-top sentimental and lacking substance. It happens when you let AI do the writing for you. So many adjectives.

[Anonymous]

My kids loved it at Barnsley. They are out of college now but about 7 25: Sunday nights they would run to put the phone on speaker for Mr Winters message.

I agree just don't pick up if it annoys you.

[Anonymous]

Our ES principal only sends a monthly email newsletter. Do other elementaries send out info weekly?