Ha! Scared you with that title didn't I?
Just wanted to find out if your schools still have school announcements or not? I was just at a school last night for a follow up practice and learned that the announcement was never made to all students that we were having a practice because the school has CUT school announcements. They say that 5 minutes per day to do announcements means kids miss 11 days of school. First of all, the math is wrong...5 mins per day across 180 days of school (usually) = 15 hours...which is what? 3 days at most of school? More than that though...goodness...what better way do we have to communicate with each other than verbally? The teacher sharing this told me that the school is doing announcements via email...which NO ONE is reading (gee, that sounds like my beef with SR and email to newbies who never respond!)...and she said that kids are missing all kinds of deadlines, programs, things they need to do, etc.
At least I had 10 kids come last night (who signed up and read their email from me!)...but we should have had many more...had an announcement been made.
Here's an older(haha) person's thoughts-When I went to school-we had announcements each day over the intercom system and if something came up during the day that was important, they would announce that also. When Alex was going to school, they also had verbal announcements, put them in the school newsletter if known by press time and email that parents could go to. I read those emails daily and faithfully because I knew Alex may forget to tell me plus I just felt it was the right thing to do as a parent and because I cared about what was going on with him and school. I also encouraged him to listen to the announcements because one of those days it may pertain to him. Plus I knew when he went to college, I wouldn't be there every day to say did you do this or did you do that thing that was due today?
ReplyDeleteI know the economy and cuts are hurting schools but that doesn't mean take it out on the kids. Parents and kids need to stand up and tell the school how important these announcements are-even if they only take a few minutes!
I believe that parents these days are just to busy with their "jobs" and kids are left to their own devices. This makes me believe that they think if my parents or teachers don't care then why should I.
WE ALL need to be "accountable" in this day and age with everything that is going on in the world. If we aren't, then we have no one else to blame and say, "I didn't get the announcement".
We had school announcements every day back in high school. (I know, that was SO long ago, ahahah!)
ReplyDeleteI don't know... five minutes shouldn't matter. Why cut them? Our announcements always took 10 to 15 minutes, which got boring really fast. But in my opinion, people just need to start being responsible for themselves and read their emails. I mean, I miss an email and I miss SR. No one's going to hold my hand and tell me I have lessons on the 30th. No one's going to remind me that my prof. sent an email detailing changes to the homework assignment. If a kid in high school doesn't get used to keeping track of their own schedule and emails, when are they going to learn?
Jovannah-Didn't I tell you that you have lessons on the 30th???? I wan't holding your hand, but still!
ReplyDeleteSteve-Lake Mills still does announcements, well as of last year, because I was the one to read them! But to be honest had I not done it or gotten on the office staff to get them printed out they wouldn't have happend. I know for us the announcements were also put on a LCD sign in our lunch room, but they were never trustworthy because our student council president never updated them. It really does depend on the school, but I would have gone crazy without announcements in high school. I know I feel like I missed a lot if I don't read the page every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday now that I'm in college!!!
Kelli-Aha! But I knew about lessons before you told me!
ReplyDeleteMy school has announcements.. the only problem is, they keep changing when they do it. It used to be first period everyday but then they changed it to the begining of secon period because they "say" half the students are still coming to school. Then some teachers want them to stop doing the announcements because they take to much time and they dont have enough time to teach a their class... I dont think so. I enjoy listening to whats happening but most of the time you cant hear them because my class is SOOO loud. We also have our announcements on the schools website which is always nice. I go on there a lot to see whats going on. :)
ReplyDeleteAt my high school, they always did announcements. They used to do them twice a day then changed to once a day. But they still have announcements. They also do announcements via email so parents know what's going on too. Here in college we get emails because we are almost FORCED to check our email. And as for the newbies not responding to emails....I never did get a reply from one of the 2 names I was given to email...
ReplyDeleteWe have announcements, theoretically, but communication is poor and often at least half of the student body population doesn't get them.
ReplyDeleteWe have announcements everyday on the intercom and our teacher also has a sheet of paper telling us what is going on that day!
ReplyDeleteI love having announcements and i think that every school should have them!We also get emails t home with the announcements on them so we know at home! and the parents also know!!!!...:)
Erica
Wow i haven't been on here in a while...my school still has announcements. The senior student body president gives them every morning for roughly 5 minutes.We also have a school website that has everything up on it. The home room teachers hand out a paper with all the announcements for the students to take home...most dont end up at home but hey, they try
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ReplyDeleteYESSS! Another MN drummer on here! Now we've just got to get the rest of the state back.
ReplyDeleteHow? Arm twisting?
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ReplyDeleteSadness! I was in such a good mood at lessons today that i forgot all about the arm twisting!
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