Taylor class assignment “glitch”

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:What exactly does the email say (we're not Taylor)? Kindergarten can be the worst year for these things because if you get a handful of people who don't register until a week before school starts and suddenly they have to add another class and rearrange everyone. If it were simply that there was an error in the mail merge and some people were sent incorrect assignments, that's easy enough to fix. If you've been told to stand by for possible changes, that's more likely an enrollment issue, which may be entirely outside their control.

sounded like a mail merge issue

Hard to say. The follow up email said “Some changes have been made and errors corrected.“

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:This is why I’m glad my school doesn’t send out class assignments. Too many opportunities for mistakes and a waste of office staff time. Just post the class lists outside the school before open house and be done with it.

Many people are away this week, so open house only is not a good idea. And life will go on if you have to adapt to a follow-on email.

Then why can’t they just look at the posted list when they return or on the first day of school? Why does one HAVE to know the name of the teacher the week before school starts?

Because they are 800 kids. At our school they line up outside and parents are not allowed in. It would be chaos if at least half of them didn’t know where to line up!

Our school of 680 does just fine without sending out letters.
Most kids (way more than half) go to open house and find out there. Then you can call the office on the Friday after open house to find out if you want.
And on the first day of school, kids line up outside by grade and they have some staff with the class lists for that grade for the kids who don't know their teacher yet. It's really not that hard.