School Directory without E-mail

[Anonymous]

Our school directory doesn't include an email address, yet that is the easiest way to contact parents. I asked the director if they could be included. She said it was against their policy. Does anyone really understand this. Are we in the dark ages of snail mail?

[Anonymous]

They may be protecting your email address from ending up in the rolodex of another parent who might then use it for non-school related reasons (e.g. join me for a free estate planning seminar; come to my art exhibit; now is a good time to refinance). It can be a problem when directories from private shcools leak to outside of the school community, or are misused by thoses within.

[Anonymous]

I totally understand the schools policy. I might have given the school my work email address so that if there is an emergency and a mass email is sent I will see it quickly - but I don't want to get emails at my work for upcoming birthday parties or school fundraising events.

I am not opposed to receiving these emails - would just prefer for them to go to a different account. There is nothing wrong with you reaching out to parents and requesting email addresses - it is just that the school is not willing to share from a privacy POV.

[Anonymous]

I had a parent from my preschool try to sell her "clothing line" through the directory listing. Not good. It made others start doing the same thing ie... yard sale! I can understand not listing e-mails.

[Anonymous]

The school needs a policy to ban using the e-mails for business use.

[Anonymous]

There are a few families at our preschool with no email addresses. They miss out on parties when the invitations go out via email (the kid is usually given a note to bring home - sometimes it gets there, sometimes it doesn't). They aren't able to work on volunteer committees, since all of that is done via email, and they are asked on far fewer playdates, since it's much harder to play phone tag than it is to drop a quick email.