to think the school shouldn't expect me to print off, sign and return letters to them.

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Honestly. I keep getting emails with attached letters, requesting that I print off, sign and return the slip. EG school trips/ photo permissions etc. They have just become an academy and I assume this is a cost cutting exercise. I don't have a printer (it's for dh work, and I don't think I should do this at work either.

We get these but I don't print them off. I have my signature scanned in on my computer and simply add that to the forms and email them back. Have done this for school, Brownies and other clubs and never had a problem.

Worraliberty As a former parent governor, I simply ensured all the meeting stuff was downloaded on my laptop and took that to meetings. I don't have room to store reams of paper, and at least I knew I never lost anything.

That's a great idea Darts

I don't have a laptop either but if I did, it would be worth doing

Sign of the times I would say. But I do agree that it is rather annoying. I was trying to organise a redelivery with Royal Mail this afternoon. When I finally managed to speak to somebody rather than a machine this person informed me that it would be much more convenient for me (!) if I collected the parcel rather than arranging a redelivery .... (suffice to say, I disagreed and with a lot of huffing and puffing a redelivery was finally arranged).

As a teacher, I like the email to parents.

It stops me having to pick the letters up in
the classroom
Hall
Entrance/exit
Play ground
driveway
bus area
etc. etc. etc.

Oh and it stops the phonecalls from parents saying that they never had the letter.

" there's nothing to say that you signed that document - it could just be your kid copy & pasting your signature "

DS decided that he couldn't be bothered to ask us to sign his planner, so had been forging DHs signature all year until parent's evening, when I asked why we didn't have to sign planners in Y8 only to be told we had been

Yes school accepted the scanned signature but they are quite easy going

I think I am going to suggest an email reply - can't see why dd would fake my reply to a boring school trip slip/ turning up at options eve slip/ etc. I shall plead poverty ot time and money. Will update...

What's worse is when they send you something that has to be returned to each class teacher of every child you have at the school, with exact money only for each child (some amount like 67p each) and then one child/class teacher loses their envelope.

think about it this way - the less money spent on paper for letters, the more money available for the education of your child.......

Or think about it this way - the less money spent on printing the damn' things at home, the more money available to FEED my child.

I find the print thing optional -as in - your child will be coming home with this letter tonight but given the likelihood of him actually bringing it home before the end of the school year are 2 million/1 its far easier to print and return.

cricket annie - brilliant double act! TBH dd is 13, and quite capable of bringing this stuff home. Or they should provide an email option (subject heading 'trip to wherever' etc. I don't see why I should fund their permission slips. I shall try to be nice in my email.

I think that if you want to complain you're obviously entitled to but I think you'll get a better response if you don't do it on the basis of cost. For a family that already has a working printer the extra cost of printing a few letters is miniscule but the saving across the school could be significant and would free up funds for educating the children.

I think you have a valid point that not everyone does have a way to print things off themselves but I can't imagine that the school wouldn't print off letters for those families.

Personally I'd much rather have an email, no checking the school bag/opportunity to print off agian when I lose the first form

Also DD2 has had a letter and a cheque in her school bag for almost two weeks and still not handed it in. Grrr!