Two Concerns in This House!

I am a Cleveland Elementary parent. My heart goes out to Mr. Howe's coworkers in the building, as well as his family. I am sure that the principal was following instructions from the administrators at the Board of Education for something of this magnitude. It's called "chain of command". I appreciate the office trying to notify me before I turned on the evening news or received a phone call from a neighbor (or, heaven forbid - the automated phone message system the school uses). There are over 500 children in the school; taping was the quickest way, I'm sure, to make sure the letters went home today. I can't imagine even having to stuff that many envelopes, much less sealing them the traditional way. I hope that parents will take a deep breath and think things through before spreading anymore "trash talk" about the school.
After talking with my children about the letter, my husband and I then had a long talk with them about opening other people's mail. One child (the oldest and the one who should have known better) had opened the letter, read it, told others what she had read before giving it to me. It doesn't matter how it was sealed, or even if was sealed at all - you do not read other people's correspondence! I hope that I am not the only parent who was upset that their child (who I thought knew better) had opened and read a letter that was not their letter to read. We are also very upset that she told other children the letter's content. Maybe I am old-school, but my child lost privileges because of her action.
Cleveland family, you are in many people's prayers tonight.

Doesn't the school system use e-mail?

Submitted by mapleleaf on Thu, 01/15/2009 - 7:50am.

Aren't the taxpayers paying millions for school computers? Doesn't the school system use e-mail to communicate with parents? That would save expense (labor and supplies), protect the environment (no trees cut to make paper), and keep children from opening or losing letters from the school to the parents.

I suppose the school system uses children as couriers to save on time and postage, but in this modern age it could have gone a step further.

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