Shouldn't the county standardize dissemination of pool letters and scores?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I don't want to clutter up any of the other threads, but I know FCPS staff read here.

In the future, I hope FCPS standardizes the mailing date for pool letters and scores, and requires either mailing OR sending home in the backpack. It's ridiculous that different schools have different protocols, especially with this kind of information.

Yes, FCPS should change the entire process! You should go to one of the superintendent's "listening tour" sessions and share this. It's utterly ridiculous and harmful and even discriminatory that families from one school get scores before other families. In fact, they should coordinate with the postal service so that every test score is placed into mailboxes are precisely the same time. "This kind of information" IS life-altering and needs to be in the hands of every second grade parent immediately so they can...so they can...ummm....errr.....

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:i agree with OP -- why should School A get theirs on Thurs. and School B gets theirs on Sat. and School C gets theirs on Monday?

Drop them at the same time.

That is perfectly fine.

As long as the students at each school are getting their letters at the same time as their classmates, everything is fine.

There is no need to completely synchronize the schools. As long as the entire district receives their scores in the same general time frame, all is well.

Spoken like one who has her letter OR an administrator who doesn't want to deal with organizing this.

They don't have to be mailed from a central office. Simply tell each school to mail out the letters on <date here>. Is this really a hardship? People get stressed about this process, and it seems like a tiny, tiny concession to standardize the mailings. If I knew the letters were mailed on a certain date, I would stop guessing after a few days.

Oh, AAP isn't a big deal to you? Then what are you doing hanging out on an AAP message board?

[Anonymous]

Isn't it MORE work for the central office to distribute the right scores to each school and then have the school distribute them out to students? It would reduce the steps involved if the central office just mailed them. Simplify.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:i agree with OP -- why should School A get theirs on Thurs. and School B gets theirs on Sat. and School C gets theirs on Monday?

Drop them at the same time.

That is perfectly fine.

As long as the students at each school are getting their letters at the same time as their classmates, everything is fine.

There is no need to completely synchronize the schools. As long as the entire district receives their scores in the same general time frame, all is well.

Spoken like one who has her letter OR an administrator who doesn't want to deal with organizing this.

They don't have to be mailed from a central office. Simply tell each school to mail out the letters on <date here>. Is this really a hardship? People get stressed about this process, and it seems like a tiny, tiny concession to standardize the mailings. If I knew the letters were mailed on a certain date, I would stop guessing after a few days.

Oh, AAP isn't a big deal to you? Then what are you doing hanging out on an AAP message board?

You do realize that even if they were all sent at exactly the same moment, they still may not all be delivered on the same day?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:i agree with OP -- why should School A get theirs on Thurs. and School B gets theirs on Sat. and School C gets theirs on Monday?

Drop them at the same time.

That is perfectly fine.

As long as the students at each school are getting their letters at the same time as their classmates, everything is fine.

There is no need to completely synchronize the schools. As long as the entire district receives their scores in the same general time frame, all is well.

Spoken like one who has her letter OR an administrator who doesn't want to deal with organizing this.

They don't have to be mailed from a central office. Simply tell each school to mail out the letters on <date here>. Is this really a hardship? People get stressed about this process, and it seems like a tiny, tiny concession to standardize the mailings. If I knew the letters were mailed on a certain date, I would stop guessing after a few days.

Oh, AAP isn't a big deal to you? Then what are you doing hanging out on an AAP message board?

The same reason reality shows are such a colossal hit. Do you really think people watch the "Real Housewives of New Jersey" because they are interested in the Garden State? Crazy sells, and there is plenty go around here. Hell, Jeff had to give you all your own forum.

Pass the popcorn. AAP season has begun!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:i agree with OP -- why should School A get theirs on Thurs. and School B gets theirs on Sat. and School C gets theirs on Monday?

Drop them at the same time.

That is perfectly fine.

As long as the students at each school are getting their letters at the same time as their classmates, everything is fine.

There is no need to completely synchronize the schools. As long as the entire district receives their scores in the same general time frame, all is well.

Spoken like one who has her letter OR an administrator who doesn't want to deal with organizing this.

They don't have to be mailed from a central office. Simply tell each school to mail out the letters on <date here>. Is this really a hardship? People get stressed about this process, and it seems like a tiny, tiny concession to standardize the mailings. If I knew the letters were mailed on a certain date, I would stop guessing after a few days.

Oh, AAP isn't a big deal to you? Then what are you doing hanging out on an AAP message board?

No, just another parent.

And if this board is any indication, the scores all got mailed on Friday, with the exception of one or two schools that stuck the info in the backpacks on Friday.

I hardly think a two day difference in the delivery of scores is a catastrophe of epic proportions and is certainly not worth the hissy fit you are throwing.

[Anonymous]

Yes very amusing! Love watching the backs go up and the claws come out. Ever watched a group of AAP parents at a sociak event? That is a hoot to!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:i agree with OP -- why should School A get theirs on Thurs. and School B gets theirs on Sat. and School C gets theirs on Monday?

Drop them at the same time.

That is perfectly fine.

As long as the students at each school are getting their letters at the same time as their classmates, everything is fine.

There is no need to completely synchronize the schools. As long as the entire district receives their scores in the same general time frame, all is well.

Spoken like one who has her letter OR an administrator who doesn't want to deal with organizing this.

They don't have to be mailed from a central office. Simply tell each school to mail out the letters on <date here>. Is this really a hardship? People get stressed about this process, and it seems like a tiny, tiny concession to standardize the mailings. If I knew the letters were mailed on a certain date, I would stop guessing after a few days.

Oh, AAP isn't a big deal to you? Then what are you doing hanging out on an AAP message board?

No, just another parent.

And if this board is any indication, the scores all got mailed on Friday, with the exception of one or two schools that stuck the info in the backpacks on Friday.

I hardly think a two day difference in the delivery of scores is a catastrophe of epic proportions and is certainly not worth the hissy fit you are throwing.

Except a principal on this board stated they would be mailed on Monday. And a bunch of posters got theirs in the mail today. Others of us did not. Those are facts, inconvenient as they are.

Don't see the words "catastrophe" or "epic" anywhere in my subject line nor posts. I can't figure out why some of you are so dead-set against schools mailing a letter on the same day--seems pretty simple to me!