Final yr I wrote about the qualities of an excellent college district web site. Sadly, the college district by which my youngsters go to high school did not learn that weblog submit or did not take any motion primarily based on it. That was pushed residence this week as we tried to seek out the college provide lists and the schedule for the beginning of the college for our children.
The apparent place to search for a faculty provide checklist and the schedule for the beginning of the college yr is the college’s web site. Sadly, that has been up to date for the reason that finish of the final college yr. Provide lists? Nowhere to be discovered. Schedule? The calendar for August is totally clean.Â
So how did we discover the data that we wanted? A buddy who used to work within the district shared a Fb submit with me. At that time it was three days previous! And what if I did not use Fb (like an growing variety of folks)? We would nonetheless be questioning about provide lists and schedules.Â
As I wrote final yr, make the data that folks want the primary and most blatant factor in your college’s web site. No one goes to the college’s web site in August to seek out out the outcomes of a fundraising problem from the earlier spring nor do they care about photos from a workers improvement assembly.Â
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p.s. I nonetheless suppose it is felony that public faculties do not present all the sources that college students want. Provide lists that value households $50+ per scholar characterize a monetary hardship for a lot of households and places their kids at a drawback from the primary day of faculty.Â
