Yeshiva Saves Money With Emails
Recently an idea was proposed (on Orthonomics or Profk?) that schools save money by replacing mailings to parents with emails. Just this past week Jr's school sent a letter home requesting that we submit our email address for this very purpose.
In general I think this idea makes sense and it is a good way to save some money, although I have two concerns. One is that the school better not sell my email address to others, as thus far I have been relatively successful in keeping it free of spam. My other concern is that email is much easier to overlook/forget/delete than the standard printed flyer.
Now if I could only get the school to consider my own suggestions for cost-saving measures . . .
Labels: Schools, Tuition Crisis
posted by Lion of Zion at 12:56 PM
11 Comments:
Our kids' school now does the newsletter online. We get an email when it is updated. The few parents that don't have email get the print copy. Parents used to complain they never got the print version, because kids in the older grades leave them in their backpacks or otherwise never give them to parents. It seems to be working well. I don't have to search at home where did I put the print copy, because I can just go online to see it.
Throw away emails are good if you are worried about spam. If you own your own domain name, you can have as many emails as you want that go to one address.
(1) They should NOT be selling or renting your address and (2) you can set up your in box so that emails from the school's addresses are a certain color or flagged or something. The nice thing is you have a nice electronic archive. The not-so-nice thing is that you don't have it to read on Shabbat.
Oh, absolutely. My son's high school sends 90% of their correspondence via e-mail. It's much more convenient for everyone, and saves the school a fortune in paper, copying, and clerical costs. I wish more schools would do it.
What would the more Yeshivish schools be showing. They actually want their parents to have internet?
AML:
"They should NOT be selling or renting your address"
every other jewish organization seems to be selling/buying these lists, so i just assume the schools are doing so as well. but i am going to ask specifically about email addresses before i give them mine.
"The not-so-nice thing is that you don't have it to read on Shabbat."
various aspects of the stuff jr brings home can send my blood pressure through the ceiling. i've stopped looking at friday nights for this reason. no need to kill my shabbat joy.
MIKE:
all schools, whether MO or yeshivish, had better start thinking outside of the box and be willing to adjust expectations if they expect to weather the economic storm.
Interesting idea, but I heard that BMG is doing the opposite, they are stopping with electronic stuff to save power, and instead their hand writing things.
But I like the idea of e-mail better, you can always print it out and post it on your fridge so you don't forget.
That's funny though that they used their suggestions.
BS:
what is BMG? (are you referring to lakewood?) anyway, i hope that's a joke.
i have so many emails i need to follow up on, i'm afraid school emails will just end up with the rest. if i read a school email at work i will have completely forgotten about it by the time i get home to print it
Lion Of Zion: yea, BMG is Bais Medrash Gevoah, the big Lakewood Yeshiva. It's not a joke. See here!
yea, I understand those can be problems of e-mails. You can always forward it to your wife, maybe she will remember for you.
o, and here's the quote:
"all notes that need to be posted are handwritten, to save money on the electric bill."
BS:
that's just ridiculous. the cost of email in terms of electric usage is infinitesimal.
my wife is not an email addict like myself.
that's what I thought...
ahh ok...
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