It's beeen thundering like crazy here, maybe my Mother-in-law, grandparents, and Uncle are reading my newsletters and have all those missing NEW socks I bought for the boys!!!
PresAgain - I'm telling you, they are with the socks. Or do you think the black hole in the dryer dumps stuff out into a different destination?
Not to get into religion, but my personal view of heaven and the hereafter is that you get to know the answer to all the mysteries of life, big and small. The truth behind the pyramids, the secrets of Atlantis, where my missing diamond ring is...and where the heck all those other lost things are. Somewhere, there is an entire world consisting entirely of lost school paperwork (newsletters included) and orphan socks (never pairs, mind you!).
Thank you guys!!! The best part is the e-mail from the school's secretary APOLOGIZING for the mess up! YES!! Seriously, the PTO has been telling the Principal for years about HER ablility to loose our newsletter, forms, etc!
Friday just wasn't my day in other ways that are too much to talk about here....
A note of caution for those of you hard working volunteers who work endlessly on newsletters and flyers for your organization. We, the volunteers at our school, have discovered a new problem spreding through our school. At least 20% of our children now have backpacks with BLACK HOLES in them!
Therefore any papers coming from a Parent/Teacher organizaition will disappear within 15 seconds of being placed into the backpack. I'm not sure if there is anything you can do to stop in invsion from coming to your school. It snuck up on us and we have been extremely careful as I'm sure you are all. We wish you luck against the invasion of the Black Hole into the backpack's of your students!
And my personal all time favorite . . . the first person to make mention of the mistakes earns the much sought after position of . . . newsletter publisher for the NEXT four years!
Ahh, but let's keep some perspective. Most will notice the PTO put out a newsletter, but how many will actually notice any errors? (All numbers totally and shamelessly fabricated.)
******************* The True Journey of a PTO Newsletter
Did you ever wonder what REALLY happens to those newsletters that are so carefully and painstakenly crafted each month? Here's the Inside Scoop.
8% - Never make it to the classroom
Yes, you carefully copy and count them into just the correct number of batches, with each having just the right amount of copies. The volunteer delivers them to ALL the classrooms but somehow has two batches left on the cart when she returns.
4% - Teacher forgets to hand out
Sigh - we know, they get busy. Someone always forgets.
10% - Sadly, received by parents without interest
Unfortunately, we all have some parents that are not involved nor interested in their kids' school activities
4% - Recycled in the car on the way home
Made into a paper airplane by a bored child or pressed into service as napkin substitute for sticky candy the toddler just spit out.
7% - Delivered to parents unable to read it
Some of our parents have literacy problems or do not speak English. (What can we do to help this?)
7% - Disappear into never, never land
Student did get it, but the paper never made it home. It’s probably with all those lost socks.
1% - Received by volunteers who helped draft it
I already reviewed it FIVE times. Read it again? Why? I have it memorized!
8% - Will be discovered next summer when school is over and Mom cleans out backpack
Too late to read it then.
23% - Put aside to read “soonâ€, when parent has a quiet minute to think
Need I say more? It’s not going to happen.
18% - "Read" by multi-tasking parent
Caring parent will valiantly attempt to read the newsletter while simultaneously cooking dinner, driving Junior to soccer, supervising homework, and dealing with a career crisis. (Wouldn’t recognize a misspelling or error the size of King Kong!)
10% - Read, absorbed, and comprehended the information
Of this final 10% who might possibly notice any errors or inconsistencies, half think the PTO hung the moon and can do no wrong and half think nothing the PTO does is ever good enough anyway!
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Just pat yourself on the back for a job well done/well intended and put stacks of the correct version out on display. Over the next month (or however long until you publish next), lots of people will pick THOSE copies up to read as they wait to meet their child or fill time before a meeting. :cool:
