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When I was in school, stuff was sent home with me for my parents all the time. I agree it's not the best way, particularly if the item in question is something the child may not want the parent to see, which is a whole other topic. Nevertheless, that's the way it was.
I do kind of wonder why they didn't use email, though. Cheaper, for one thing.
Because they wanted the kids to read it. Think about it.
1. Type one email. Pull up list. Press send. Auto delivery directly to parents.
2. Type up doc. Print copies. Count out copies for each classroom. Give to teachers. Teachers give to students. Students may/may not bring home/give to parents.
Which makes more sense if you trying to target PARENTS?
Because they wanted the kids to read it. Think about it.
1. Type one email. Pull up list. Press send. Auto delivery directly to parents.
2. Type up doc. Print copies. Count out copies for each classroom. Give to teachers. Teachers give to students. Students may/may not bring home/give to parents.
Which makes more sense if you trying to target PARENTS?
Not every parent has e-mail. They just don't.
My sister is 62 and just got her first e-mail address this year.
Also-- having been involved extensively with PTA's, school boards, etc.....parents can receive information via 3 outlets and still say they never got it. You confirm their address, you confirm it went home in their kids backpack and you confirmed you mailed a copy -- oops-- didn't see that e-mail, oh I just found the flyer sent home in a pile -- the to do pile -- and uh oh -- I just found the unopened mail,.
The fact this kid apparently read the document (on the way home on the bus -- really at 8)...and the mother saw it....I'd say this is a win for the PTA. She claims she just happened not to see any of the other documents.
At some point you have to dismiss this whole incident as not NEWS worthy. Has nothing to do with the curriculum in the classroom.
My sister is 62 and just got her first e-mail address this year.
Also-- having been involved extensively with PTA's, school boards, etc.....parents can receive information via 3 outlets and still say they never got it. You confirm their address, you confirm it went home in their kids backpack and you confirmed you mailed a copy -- oops-- didn't see that e-mail, oh I just found the flyer sent home in a pile -- the to do pile -- and uh oh -- I just found the unopened mail,.
The fact this kid apparently read the document (on the way home on the bus -- really at 8)...and the mother saw it....I'd say this is a win for the PTA. She claims she just happened not to see any of the other documents.
At some point you have to dismiss this whole incident as not NEWS worthy. Has nothing to do with the curriculum in the classroom.
But the PTA is introducing its own curriculum into the classrooms if the kids are being given this stuff in the classroom to take home. It doesn't matter who introduces it, if it is in the classroom it is part of the school's curriculum by default. If the PTA was doing something the school disagreed with they wouldn't give the PTA access to the kids this way. Of course the school endorses it.
CityData uses bots, and you don't know if the original poster or a responder is a human or a bot. Every social media site has bots now. I tend to steer from threads which seem to go too far in their incendiary rhetoric. If you ask yourself " How could someone say that?" , maybe it's not a someone, but a something.
CityData uses bots, and you don't know if the original poster or a responder is a human or a bot. Every social media site has bots now. I tend to steer from threads which seem to go too far in their incendiary rhetoric. If you ask yourself " How could someone say that?" , maybe it's not a someone, but a something.
Yep. And others who definitely have certain ideologies that they support and are somehow online 24/7 responding to a gazillion posts.
My sister is 62 and just got her first e-mail address this year.
Also-- having been involved extensively with PTA's, school boards, etc.....parents can receive information via 3 outlets and still say they never got it. You confirm their address, you confirm it went home in their kids backpack and you confirmed you mailed a copy -- oops-- didn't see that e-mail, oh I just found the flyer sent home in a pile -- the to do pile -- and uh oh -- I just found the unopened mail,.
The fact this kid apparently read the document (on the way home on the bus -- really at 8)...and the mother saw it....I'd say this is a win for the PTA. She claims she just happened not to see any of the other documents.
At some point you have to dismiss this whole incident as not NEWS worthy. Has nothing to do with the curriculum in the classroom.
Today, it's online, email and text. Very little goes home as handouts.
CityData uses bots, and you don't know if the original poster or a responder is a human or a bot. Every social media site has bots now. I tend to steer from threads which seem to go too far in their incendiary rhetoric. If you ask yourself " How could someone say that?" , maybe it's not a someone, but a something.
Interesting point, but there's been no incendiary rhetoric in this thread. Either you think it's OK to plant racist ideas in a child's head or you don't.
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