8 Things to Know Community Message Email today

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Anonymous wrote: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.

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.

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.

OP- If reading a weekly email is burdensome to your parenting, then there is a simple solution, don’t read it. Some of us actually find it useful to know what is going on in MCPS as a whole. If you don’t know one is going to begrudge you. And please stop trying to use other groups like non English speakers to lazily support your argument t. Particularly when many of McPS’ messages are available translated in several languages. Further, comparing what parents do now to support their kids to what your parent did is also another lazy argument as the world and technology has greatly changed.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote: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.

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.

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.

Most MCPS communications are available in 5 languages.

[Anonymous]

I agree. There are way too many emails.