Anonymous wrote:They need to stop chasing new technology every single year. Find some good communication tools and stick with them.

Anonymous wrote:They need to stop chasing new technology every single year. Find some good communication tools and stick with them.

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Anonymous wrote:And yet people miss stuff and complain about not knowing what’s going on.

They don't know what to communicate about and what not to excessively!

They could explain the communications platforms and what we’re supposed to use. There’s been umpteen years posts on this forum asking about Parent Square and the parent square app and no explanation of that platform at all and whether we need to download yet another McPS app

They actually did send out something about this, I assume in response to complaints. But it didn't tell me what method I should use to contact my child's teacher (whose settings currently don't allow people to contact her on Remind). Should I email using ParentVue? Regular email? When will Remind be taken offline? The message was all "See! We have a reason to have a new app! Deal with it!"

Also why did parents initially find out about Parent Square from Facebook and DCUM? They sent out a BS message in early August about background checks in response to the IG report. Basically again a response to a concern about their ability to effectively manage the school system. Everything they send out is reactive and defensive. Nothing proactive and very little that is actually helpful to parents.

Our principal notified us about Parent Square in June.

Why on earth would individual school principals be responsible for this?

MCPS needs to stop spamming all families with its nauseating self promotion and focus its systemwide communications on essential issues instead of expecting individual schools to pick up the slack.

Because principals are supposed to communicate regularly with their students' families. And families tend to pay more attention to principal communications than to those from central office.

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Anonymous wrote:And yet people miss stuff and complain about not knowing what’s going on.

They don't know what to communicate about and what not to excessively!

They could explain the communications platforms and what we’re supposed to use. There’s been umpteen years posts on this forum asking about Parent Square and the parent square app and no explanation of that platform at all and whether we need to download yet another McPS app

They actually did send out something about this, I assume in response to complaints. But it didn't tell me what method I should use to contact my child's teacher (whose settings currently don't allow people to contact her on Remind). Should I email using ParentVue? Regular email? When will Remind be taken offline? The message was all "See! We have a reason to have a new app! Deal with it!"

Also why did parents initially find out about Parent Square from Facebook and DCUM? They sent out a BS message in early August about background checks in response to the IG report. Basically again a response to a concern about their ability to effectively manage the school system. Everything they send out is reactive and defensive. Nothing proactive and very little that is actually helpful to parents.

Our principal notified us about Parent Square in June.

Why on earth would individual school principals be responsible for this?

MCPS needs to stop spamming all families with its nauseating self promotion and focus its systemwide communications on essential issues instead of expecting individual schools to pick up the slack.

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Anonymous wrote:And yet people miss stuff and complain about not knowing what’s going on.

They don't know what to communicate about and what not to excessively!

They could explain the communications platforms and what we’re supposed to use. There’s been umpteen years posts on this forum asking about Parent Square and the parent square app and no explanation of that platform at all and whether we need to download yet another McPS app

They actually did send out something about this, I assume in response to complaints. But it didn't tell me what method I should use to contact my child's teacher (whose settings currently don't allow people to contact her on Remind). Should I email using ParentVue? Regular email? When will Remind be taken offline? The message was all "See! We have a reason to have a new app! Deal with it!"

Also why did parents initially find out about Parent Square from Facebook and DCUM? They sent out a BS message in early August about background checks in response to the IG report. Basically again a response to a concern about their ability to effectively manage the school system. Everything they send out is reactive and defensive. Nothing proactive and very little that is actually helpful to parents.

Our principal notified us about Parent Square in June.

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Anonymous wrote:And yet people miss stuff and complain about not knowing what’s going on.

They don't know what to communicate about and what not to excessively!

They could explain the communications platforms and what we’re supposed to use. There’s been umpteen years posts on this forum asking about Parent Square and the parent square app and no explanation of that platform at all and whether we need to download yet another McPS app

They actually did send out something about this, I assume in response to complaints. But it didn't tell me what method I should use to contact my child's teacher (whose settings currently don't allow people to contact her on Remind). Should I email using ParentVue? Regular email? When will Remind be taken offline? The message was all "See! We have a reason to have a new app! Deal with it!"

Also why did parents initially find out about Parent Square from Facebook and DCUM? They sent out a BS message in early August about background checks in response to the IG report. Basically again a response to a concern about their ability to effectively manage the school system. Everything they send out is reactive and defensive. Nothing proactive and very little that is actually helpful to parents.

Our principal notified us about Parent Square in June.

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Anonymous wrote:And yet people miss stuff and complain about not knowing what’s going on.

They don't know what to communicate about and what not to excessively!

They could explain the communications platforms and what we’re supposed to use. There’s been umpteen years posts on this forum asking about Parent Square and the parent square app and no explanation of that platform at all and whether we need to download yet another McPS app

They actually did send out something about this, I assume in response to complaints. But it didn't tell me what method I should use to contact my child's teacher (whose settings currently don't allow people to contact her on Remind). Should I email using ParentVue? Regular email? When will Remind be taken offline? The message was all "See! We have a reason to have a new app! Deal with it!"

Also why did parents initially find out about Parent Square from Facebook and DCUM? They sent out a BS message in early August about background checks in response to the IG report. Basically again a response to a concern about their ability to effectively manage the school system. Everything they send out is reactive and defensive. Nothing proactive and very little that is actually helpful to parents.

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Anonymous wrote:And yet people miss stuff and complain about not knowing what’s going on.

They don't know what to communicate about and what not to excessively!

They could explain the communications platforms and what we’re supposed to use. There’s been umpteen years posts on this forum asking about Parent Square and the parent square app and no explanation of that platform at all and whether we need to download yet another McPS app

They actually did send out something about this, I assume in response to complaints. But it didn't tell me what method I should use to contact my child's teacher (whose settings currently don't allow people to contact her on Remind). Should I email using ParentVue? Regular email? When will Remind be taken offline? The message was all "See! We have a reason to have a new app! Deal with it!"

Also why did parents initially find out about Parent Square from Facebook and DCUM? They sent out a BS message in early August about background checks in response to the IG report. Basically again a response to a concern about their ability to effectively manage the school system. Everything they send out is reactive and defensive. Nothing proactive and very little that is actually helpful to parents.

Anonymous wrote:We still have a landline so get surround sound with multiple incoming calls on cell phones as well as home. My favorite are the emails with a link to a statement somewhere else - they look like spam and no I'm not going to navigate somewhere else to read a welcome back message from the principal.

The communication is emblematic of much of what is wrong with MCPS - massive, redundant, bureaucratic, and ineffective.

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Anonymous wrote:If you have four kids, you get four damn calls! Omfg just stop already. Does the 10th grader's parent need a reminder that the first day of school is Tuesday but the Kinder, 4th at a new school, and 6th grader starts on Monday. Geez

You choose four kids.

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Anonymous wrote:And yet people miss stuff and complain about not knowing what’s going on.

They don't know what to communicate about and what not to excessively!

They could explain the communications platforms and what we’re supposed to use. There’s been umpteen years posts on this forum asking about Parent Square and the parent square app and no explanation of that platform at all and whether we need to download yet another McPS app

Anonymous wrote:We still have a landline so get surround sound with multiple incoming calls on cell phones as well as home. My favorite are the emails with a link to a statement somewhere else - they look like spam and no I'm not going to navigate somewhere else to read a welcome back message from the principal.

The communication is emblematic of much of what is wrong with MCPS - massive, redundant, bureaucratic, and ineffective.

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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.

There's a lot of drek, easy to miss important items buried in there.