Repeat MCPS texts and emails

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Its likely just a tech glitch. Geez you folks are easily riled. Jusr delete the extra messages.

Or it’s an ill attempt to get parents to attend events or fill out surveys that parents have no desire to do.

There are 160,000 students in MCPS. 200 parents at Gaithersburg HS is hardly a well attended event. People are tired of BS propaganda and MCPS promises to improve education when all Dr. McKnight wants to do is grow Central Office and promote herself.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Its likely just a tech glitch. Geez you folks are easily riled. Jusr delete the extra messages.

Or it’s an ill attempt to get parents to attend events or fill out surveys that parents have no desire to do.

There are 160,000 students in MCPS. 200 parents at Gaithersburg HS is hardly a well attended event. People are tired of BS propaganda and MCPS promises to improve education when all Dr. McKnight wants to do is grow Central Office and promote herself.

It wasn’t 200 parents. McKnight padded the room with staff. Seat fillers.

[Anonymous]

I didn't get any duplicate messages yesterday

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I thought maybe I was getting things 2x because I have 2 kids in MCPS. But it does seem like I’m actually getting 3. Plus, I feel like they are communicating about so many things that I don’t have the bandwidth to engage in. Like this goals/priorities discussion (I received notifications on 3 different days, 2-3 notifications each day.)
Then the “important information from interim superintendent McKnight etc” texts: if it’s important info, just tell us the point in the text rather than making us click through to a web page and read something else.
Then the MCPS “things to know” texts. If I need to know them, please just text them instead of texting that there is another message that I need to read.


I am now at the point where I would like to complain to MCPS about that.

I find the principals’ weekly calls /emails the most relevant . Then my kids’ PTA sends out their own on the same day which is really confusing, too. I get that the PTA has its own agenda/events, but they should either reproduce the principal’s email within theirs..embed it somehow … then say, “in addition to the important reminded mentioned by the principle, we’d like to add [Ptsa event/topic etc].

Agree with most of this. They need to take a class on writing emails, as a big part of what principals, superintendents etc do is communication and they're really failing at it. I don't mind more emails if they have relevant subject lines indicating actions to be taken eg:
"Change in quarantine procedures"
"Picture day tomorrow"
"Meeting on selecting electives for middle school tomorrow"
Instead we get spammed with the same "6 important things you need to know" type emails, most of which aren't actually important. Our principal also sends long emails, where important things are often hidden on page 3 of the attachment...

[Anonymous]

I really don’t know how to help them understand that I’m not going to a 200-person, mask-optional, in-person-only event. If they wanted input, they’d retain a Zoom option—WAY more people were able to participate that way.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Its likely just a tech glitch. Geez you folks are easily riled. Jusr delete the extra messages.

The OP is very put upon by everything the county does. It's all a big conspiracy against them.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Its likely just a tech glitch. Geez you folks are easily riled. Jusr delete the extra messages.

The OP is very put upon by everything the county does. It's all a big conspiracy against them.

I’m the OP and other than the first message haven’t posted since. I’m not “put upon” but now that I know this is impacting everyone I’m wondering how we can stop it.

[Anonymous]

The same people would complain when not receiving enough communication from MCPS.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Its likely just a tech glitch. Geez you folks are easily riled. Jusr delete the extra messages.

It's not a glitch. Do you remember the stupid survey? It was a constant barrage of texts and emails. The PP is right. I only need one message. Just one.

[Anonymous]

There’s a way to log in and manage emergency messages from MCPS and county (did it a long time ago-don’t remember how). I think some of the duplication is from having multiple emails and phone number tied together. Some messages I get once, some I get twice (as in, a few seconds apart).

It’s really not that hard to ignore them …

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Its likely just a tech glitch. Geez you folks are easily riled. Jusr delete the extra messages.

It's not a glitch. Do you remember the stupid survey? It was a constant barrage of texts and emails. The PP is right. I only need one message. Just one.

It is a glitch. First, no one intentionally sends duplicate texts ten minutes after the first. Second, this is new and has only been happening for the past few weeks.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Its likely just a tech glitch. Geez you folks are easily riled. Jusr delete the extra messages.

It's not a glitch. Do you remember the stupid survey? It was a constant barrage of texts and emails. The PP is right. I only need one message. Just one.

It is a glitch. First, no one intentionally sends duplicate texts ten minutes after the first. Second, this is new and has only been happening for the past few weeks.

It's inexcusable that it's taking them weeks to fix this.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Its likely just a tech glitch. Geez you folks are easily riled. Jusr delete the extra messages.

It's not a glitch. Do you remember the stupid survey? It was a constant barrage of texts and emails. The PP is right. I only need one message. Just one.

It is a glitch. First, no one intentionally sends duplicate texts ten minutes after the first. Second, this is new and has only been happening for the past few weeks.

It's inexcusable that it's taking them weeks to fix this.

Really inexcusable? Seriously that’s the wording you want to go with for this situation? Annoying perhaps but inexcusable is a really wide stretch. No one is being harmed by this.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Its likely just a tech glitch. Geez you folks are easily riled. Jusr delete the extra messages.

It's not a glitch. Do you remember the stupid survey? It was a constant barrage of texts and emails. The PP is right. I only need one message. Just one.

It is a glitch. First, no one intentionally sends duplicate texts ten minutes after the first. Second, this is new and has only been happening for the past few weeks.

It's inexcusable that it's taking them weeks to fix this.

Really inexcusable? Seriously that’s the wording you want to go with for this situation? Annoying perhaps but inexcusable is a really wide stretch. No one is being harmed by this.

No one needs to be harmed in order for something to be inexcusable. Any organization that can’t get their act together and fix a technical glitch like multiple texts, it’s failing. They know there’s a problem so they should stop texting and address the issue. If it’s a simple problem then why hasn’t it been fixed?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Its likely just a tech glitch. Geez you folks are easily riled. Jusr delete the extra messages.

It's not a glitch. Do you remember the stupid survey? It was a constant barrage of texts and emails. The PP is right. I only need one message. Just one.

It is a glitch. First, no one intentionally sends duplicate texts ten minutes after the first. Second, this is new and has only been happening for the past few weeks.

It's inexcusable that it's taking them weeks to fix this.

Really inexcusable? Seriously that’s the wording you want to go with for this situation? Annoying perhaps but inexcusable is a really wide stretch. No one is being harmed by this.

No one needs to be harmed in order for something to be inexcusable. Any organization that can’t get their act together and fix a technical glitch like multiple texts, it’s failing. They know there’s a problem so they should stop texting and address the issue. If it’s a simple problem then why hasn’t it been fixed?

Totally agree.