A colleague of mine forwarded me a great post describing a simple idea - use Google Calendar for keeping your students up-to-date.
I couldn't agree more with this sentiment - which basically boils down to this: rather then disseminating a myriad of paper updates to students (and their parents) use a shared document like Google Calendar to instantly push updates and changes. Notification via email can be automatically generated when the source file changes.
Although the article was written with college professors in mind, I think it is just as applicable to the lower grades (the amount of paperwork coming home with my kids is somewhat overwhelming at times).
I guess the excuses won't end - just change their tone. I can see it now: "Sorry, somehow your update notifications got flagged as spam".
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