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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If there were messages similar to OP's, I understand the decision.  We had to deactivate our condo listserve a few years back because of two abusers.  So unfair to everyone else, but it became necessary.[/quote]

Sorry I am OP it was 3am and I was off the rails.  But I am really, truly upset.  For every ONE negative or off the wall post (and of course that is in the eye of the beholder) there were 30 that helped fellow parents - people posted articles about education, competitions, STEM conferences for girls........

I guess I can't explain it.  But it is very easy to ignore posts there from people you don't like b/c you see their name.  Here, not so much.  But "ownership of the list serve" means nothing to me - they ought to have thought about the community building aspects that were going on, and they ought to have left us to our own devices.

In some ways it was useless - you could not mention a teacher or administrator by name and say critical things about them, and that is just plain wrong because they fire teachers at the end of every year, and classroom management is a big issue for some teachers and if someone just flagged it early on maybe they could regain control........

We are not a condo.  We are a school in its 3rd year, with growing pains, and so many shifts in terms of who is running things and how they are being run it would boggle your mind.  We have the potential to be great, and honestly, the list serve was a part of that.  Why couldn't they just have let people who are Word Salads have their say, knowing that no one listens or cares, and let the rest of us use the list serve as a resource.

There was no notice.  There was a stupid double speak explanation.  And now the only way to raise a question or concern is either to go to their stupid meetings, trust them to do it for you, or go in the morning and hope the administration will answer your question and that not everyone else knows the answer - because when a simple email could have cleared it up, valuable time has been wasted.

This just feels like Orwell's 1984, throwing the baby out with the bath water.  Why not just let the baby get adopted?  Seriously, this was a terrible call and there is no way they are getting a cent from me.[/quote]

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