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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]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. [/quote]
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. [/quote]

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. [/quote]
Oh, I agree. They should hire people to evaluate each family’s personal interests and needs and send a personalized email with only the items the family is interested in reading about.[/quote]

No that’s not it. But many of the items are not relevant. It’s not necessary or reasonable  to expect over 100K people to read about someone who got a full ride to Spelman. High school sex Ed communication should come from the high school to their parents. The parent vue entry is stupid since parents can’t actually edit their info and our schools send forms and we make hand written changes on them. I could go on. It’s just lazy communications work to throw the kitchen sink and people and expect them to read it all, especially if they care so much about equity and supporting ALL families. [/quote]

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