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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think participation for most of these things is really low in big public schools, even in UMC areas.

The spirit days are 100% driven by student government.  It's kind of funny/sad.  Schools think its important to have student governments, as a little exercise in democracy.  But these elected officials have zero power and there's nothing they can really give a fifth grader to do.  AFAIK, their only authority is to come up with spirit days and make an occasional speech.  They are more pointless than the British royal family, but they need to have something to do to justify their existence.  Outside of the student government members, I'm not sure many kids participate - either because they don't care, forget, don't have parents who can supply them with 80s stuff at the last minute, etc.

[b]But totally agree on the long emails from school.  Please start with a bullet point of action items at the top, and then add all the detail that a small number of parents need to know.  I don't need to know that it's Mental Health Awareness week again, or whatever week it is this week.  And I don't need to get the information about how to contact the attendance secretary, and where the bus lane is, in every single email.  Or at least put that stuff at the waaay bottom.[/b]
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Yes!  And if one of those things is that there is randomly no school one day that week, or that everyone is going to be in green underwear on Tuesday, then that should be the subject of its own separate email!

Subject:  Green Underwear Tuesday 3/29

Body:  In celebration of the beginning of spring, we invite all of the students to wear green underwear on Tuesday 3/29.  We will be doing several green activities and planting seeds donated by the city in our school garden.

Thank you.
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My sister is in business, and I showed her one of the school emails while I was visiting.  I had missed something that was important to my daughter, and I showed her where it was buried in the email. My sister then took about ten seconds to tell me four or five things that would have vastly improved the communication in that email, and I would have known to either do the thing or tell my daughter why it couldn’t happen.  Instead, I just missed it.

Probably everyone that has to disseminate information to large groups of people (including all school administrators) should have a yearly twenty minute training on writing emails.

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