Anonymous
Post 08/27/2025 21:07     Subject: Stop contacting me!!!
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Maybe someone can post the cell phone number for whoever at McPS is responsible for the kicking off a great year texts and similar Bs and we can all star spamming him or her with useless information about our own lives. Another Great Dinner Made by MCPS Parent! mCPs Parent lAchiefes 100% Success in Getting Children to Bus Stop! MCPS Parent Attends Back to School Night! And similar such critical messages. We can all send them at whatever time we happen to be up.


OR... you could just be an adult and turn off notifications until the second week of school?

Pathetic whiners.


Lady you have anger issues


Nah, bro. I'm zen af because I turned my notifications off last week.

I enjoy the annual spectacle so many of you make of yourselves though. Thanks for the lolz.
Anonymous
Post 08/27/2025 21:06     Subject: Stop contacting me!!!
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:It seems like this is being done maliciously, but I actually think the people who are in charge of this don't know how to choose which messages get sent out as "alerts" for which parents can't opt out of text messages (we can opt out of the alerts themselves but then I assume I won't get a message for a systemwide closure), and which messages get sent out as "General Announcements and Messages". I almost wish it were malicious.


Oh you're right! This is the issue. I can see in Parent Square that the message this evening "Kicking Off a Great Year" is marked as an alert rather than a general message. Which is why I received the text even though my general message texts are turned off.


So currently there is no way to stop the MCPS spam texts without stopping school system closure alerts.

Now I want to know who are all these DCUM posters insisting we all just need to be ange are settings? Are they MCPS staff, trolls, or what?

Also how much are the MCPS comms people being paid?


I'm not a troll, and I'm not even a particularly-engaged parent. I'm just not an idiot, and a lot of y'all on this thread seem to need your wittle beybeh hands held so that the scawie texts don't eat you.

If this is your biggest complaint, your life is amazing.


Wow. Just wow. Why post here if you don't have a solution and don't care?


Babe, I'm the one telling you to get a burner email & a google voice line and adjust your settings.

"Wow. Just wow." your stupid self, hapless prat.
Anonymous
Post 08/27/2025 13:19     Subject: Stop contacting me!!!
Anonymous wrote:Ideally I would like three different categories that I could opt into:

1) time sensitive alerts like school closures, safety issues. This is the only information I want via text.

2) information specific to my school and/or child. I would like this by email.

3) generalized information about McPS priorities or initiatives or achievements. I would opt out of this entirely.

I feel like having these 3 different categories is not that much to ask, really.


The thing is, this is all completely possible with the ParentSquare app. You can opt in or out of "Alerts", and "General Information" for your child's school and separately for MCPS as a whole.

The problem is that MCPS central office is sending everything out as "Alerts".
Anonymous
Post 08/27/2025 13:10     Subject: Stop contacting me!!!
Ideally I would like three different categories that I could opt into:

1) time sensitive alerts like school closures, safety issues. This is the only information I want via text.

2) information specific to my school and/or child. I would like this by email.

3) generalized information about McPS priorities or initiatives or achievements. I would opt out of this entirely.

I feel like having these 3 different categories is not that much to ask, really.
Anonymous
Post 08/27/2025 12:22     Subject: Stop contacting me!!!
Too. Many. Emails.

Don't need to send the same info out so many times. Makes me more likely to miss something bc I'm more likely to not read the emails when there are dozens that repeat instead of maybe 1-2 that I can save for reference.
Anonymous
Post 08/27/2025 11:54     Subject: Stop contacting me!!!
Anonymous wrote:The real question is, despite all those communications you got…did you still have to reach out in community groups to get answers to questions that were in those thousands of communications?


Yes. Because MCPS engages in PR masquerading as communication and they have an authenticity gap, so you have to the get the real low-down from community members, not the school or the system.
Anonymous
Post 08/27/2025 11:44     Subject: Stop contacting me!!!
Anonymous wrote:The real question is, despite all those communications you got…did you still have to reach out in community groups to get answers to questions that were in those thousands of communications?


Typically yes.
-NP
Anonymous
Post 08/26/2025 14:53     Subject: Stop contacting me!!!
The real question is, despite all those communications you got…did you still have to reach out in community groups to get answers to questions that were in those thousands of communications?
Anonymous
Post 08/26/2025 11:55     Subject: Re:Stop contacting me!!!
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:And yet people miss stuff and complain about not knowing what’s going on.


Correct.



Because people tune out when there is excessive contact.


Or excessive information.

Our weekly emails are pages long.
Anonymous
Post 08/26/2025 11:17     Subject: Stop contacting me!!!
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:It seems like this is being done maliciously, but I actually think the people who are in charge of this don't know how to choose which messages get sent out as "alerts" for which parents can't opt out of text messages (we can opt out of the alerts themselves but then I assume I won't get a message for a systemwide closure), and which messages get sent out as "General Announcements and Messages". I almost wish it were malicious.


Oh you're right! This is the issue. I can see in Parent Square that the message this evening "Kicking Off a Great Year" is marked as an alert rather than a general message. Which is why I received the text even though my general message texts are turned off.


central office comms needs to learn the difference between a general message and an alert so parents can opt in accordingly. "Kicking of a Great Year" is a general message in my opinion (and a pretty useless one at that).
Anonymous
Post 08/26/2025 07:25     Subject: Stop contacting me!!!
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Maybe someone can post the cell phone number for whoever at McPS is responsible for the kicking off a great year texts and similar Bs and we can all star spamming him or her with useless information about our own lives. Another Great Dinner Made by MCPS Parent! mCPs Parent lAchiefes 100% Success in Getting Children to Bus Stop! MCPS Parent Attends Back to School Night! And similar such critical messages. We can all send them at whatever time we happen to be up.


OR... you could just be an adult and turn off notifications until the second week of school?

Pathetic whiners.


Lady you have anger issues
Anonymous
Post 08/26/2025 07:24     Subject: Stop contacting me!!!
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:It seems like this is being done maliciously, but I actually think the people who are in charge of this don't know how to choose which messages get sent out as "alerts" for which parents can't opt out of text messages (we can opt out of the alerts themselves but then I assume I won't get a message for a systemwide closure), and which messages get sent out as "General Announcements and Messages". I almost wish it were malicious.


The victimese on this thread is unfreakingreal. Malicious text notifications from your kid's school?! AYFKM?


Sorry if you couldn't comprehend - I was saying. It's not malicious, just incompetence, and I think I would prefer malicious.