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I just checked and there are 16 messages from one school in the last 7 days. The other school have managed 11. Those are emails, containing PDFs, containing imp

by aidos 3y ago

I just checked and there are 16 messages from one school in the last 7 days. The other school have managed 11. Those are emails, containing PDFs, containing important dates, if you can find them.

hotnfresh 3y ago
Oh god, schools are the worst. So many messages, very few of them that need to be read. Result: parents don’t read them, then teachers wonder why parents never know any of the stuff they’re sending home. Let’s go back to physical letters and notes in backpacks.
TeMPOraL 3y ago
At least they are e-mails. Schools and kindergartens in Poland all switched over to some garbage SaaS that incorporates a half-assed, barely functioning faux-e-mail service, so I have to actually log in to their confusing and ad-infested website every other day and check if the facility sent something new. I would love it if we were using e-mails instead.
- aidos 3y ago
  One of those is emails - the 16 notifications were push notifications through the app we have to use.
- sznio 3y ago
  >Schools and kindergartens in Poland all switched over to some garbage SaaS that incorporates a half-assed, barely functioning faux-e-mail service Ahhh, Librus. Worse than useless.
  - TeMPOraL 3y ago
    The one and only.
jethro_tell 3y ago
Yeah, dealing with schools doesn't fill me with hope about our kids future. Here's a email with a PDF containing important dates and updates about the cursive program. Lol, great.
- aidos 3y ago
  It’s even worse than that - every class has a parent led WhatsApp group set up where people then regurgitate the same info into the chat. I suggested maybe a calendar instead but got the standard “it’s all too hard” responses.
  - iteria 3y ago
    Unfortunately they have to if they want to make sure parents get it. Every week my school's sends out a weekly email of everything happening in the quarter with emphasis increasing as time get closer. Then there's emails for when parents actually have to do something like sign up. There's physical flyers. There's the private Facebook like app that reiterates when parents have to do something. And the public Google calendar. Parents STILL miss it. And it's not even a few. At this point I just assume I have to tell people in person with my own mouth if I want to make sure they'll do the thing for their kid (and thus make my kid's day better)
  - mavhc 3y ago
    "We should have an app for our school, it's only $x00" Me: What does it do? Calendar and notifications about new posts Me: The website already does that, there's a button to click to subscribe to the calendar, another to subscribe to notifications, and you can "install" the website if you want, all with open standards Surprising, I actually won the argument and they didn't waste their money.
    - jethro_tell 3y ago
      I mean, the school districts I've had kids in all had Microsoft 365 or gmail for the kids, I assume the staff is in the same system. Its really not that hard to send out invites and searchable emails.
didntcheck 3y ago
I dream that one day organizations will learn that you can in fact just put your message in plain text in the message body, rather than a 1MB PDF or docx
- tsukikage 3y ago
  "I don't have time to learn all this freaky techbabble, I have a day job. Why can't you just use Word like a normal person?"

by aidos 3y ago

I just checked and there are 16 messages from one school in the last 7 days. The other school have managed 11. Those are emails, containing PDFs, containing important dates, if you can find them.

hotnfresh 3y ago

Oh god, schools are the worst. So many messages, very few of them that need to be read. Result: parents don’t read them, then teachers wonder why parents never know any of the stuff they’re sending home. Let’s go back to physical letters and notes in backpacks.

TeMPOraL 3y ago

At least they are e-mails. Schools and kindergartens in Poland all switched over to some garbage SaaS that incorporates a half-assed, barely functioning faux-e-mail service, so I have to actually log in to their confusing and ad-infested website every other day and check if the facility sent something new. I would love it if we were using e-mails instead.

aidos 3y ago
One of those is emails - the 16 notifications were push notifications through the app we have to use.
sznio 3y ago
>Schools and kindergartens in Poland all switched over to some garbage SaaS that incorporates a half-assed, barely functioning faux-e-mail service Ahhh, Librus. Worse than useless.
- TeMPOraL 3y ago
  The one and only.

jethro_tell 3y ago

Yeah, dealing with schools doesn't fill me with hope about our kids future. Here's a email with a PDF containing important dates and updates about the cursive program. Lol, great.

aidos 3y ago
It’s even worse than that - every class has a parent led WhatsApp group set up where people then regurgitate the same info into the chat. I suggested maybe a calendar instead but got the standard “it’s all too hard” responses.
- iteria 3y ago
  Unfortunately they have to if they want to make sure parents get it. Every week my school's sends out a weekly email of everything happening in the quarter with emphasis increasing as time get closer. Then there's emails for when parents actually have to do something like sign up. There's physical flyers. There's the private Facebook like app that reiterates when parents have to do something. And the public Google calendar. Parents STILL miss it. And it's not even a few. At this point I just assume I have to tell people in person with my own mouth if I want to make sure they'll do the thing for their kid (and thus make my kid's day better)
- mavhc 3y ago
  "We should have an app for our school, it's only $x00" Me: What does it do? Calendar and notifications about new posts Me: The website already does that, there's a button to click to subscribe to the calendar, another to subscribe to notifications, and you can "install" the website if you want, all with open standards Surprising, I actually won the argument and they didn't waste their money.
  - jethro_tell 3y ago
    I mean, the school districts I've had kids in all had Microsoft 365 or gmail for the kids, I assume the staff is in the same system. Its really not that hard to send out invites and searchable emails.

didntcheck 3y ago

I dream that one day organizations will learn that you can in fact just put your message in plain text in the message body, rather than a 1MB PDF or docx

tsukikage 3y ago
"I don't have time to learn all this freaky techbabble, I have a day job. Why can't you just use Word like a normal person?"