This past week my elementary school took an electronic leap and began distributing our school newsletter via e-mail eliminating the need for paper distribution to almost all of our almost 400 families! I am extremely excited about this change which will help on 3 different fronts. First we are facing extreme budget issues and in the past two years we have been encouraged to cut down on the amount of paper we use and the photo-copying that we do. Second environmentally this makes so much sense and lastly I hope that it will lead to better communication with our families. For the past few years we have deen doing a lot of double production which totally goes against our mantra of "working smarter, not harder". We all have web pages and we are required to post copies of all information that we send home. (ie. newsletters, field trip notes, flyers etc.) We have also always sent home paper copies. These paper copies often get lost in students' backpacks or accidentally thrown out by parents and we end up printing additional copies. I like the idea of just sending one mass e-mail and knowing that it won't get lost or at least that a parent will know where to get extra copies: just print it off from their home computer! I have not yet switched to a completely electronic policy but I am going to observe how efffectively this school change works and then make the leap myself.
Does anyone else use a strictly electronic distribution policy and if so what are your thoughts on its effectiveness?
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