Stupid rule about sending school an email

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So preparing to write an email to my sons school about snack times (see my other thread) but just remembered we got a newsletter the first week of school stating:

"If you want to email the class teacher it must be sent between the hours of 8am and 5pm, any emails sent outside of this time will not be responded to"

Now I get there are some parents who are batshit, and think that if they email the teacher at 11pm they will have a response personally at the school gates the following morning, when they drop off their precious little snow flakes.

But isn't sending emails like writing a letter. I will write it at a convienient time, it may have been written at 11pm at night. But I am not batshit and expect it to be read either the next working day or at least the next working day afterwards after it's been delivered.

I work in the private sector and receive/send loads of emails post 5pm, and the same rules apply. Who are these parents who are just being bonkers???

All I can think of is writing my email and timing it in Outlook to be sent within the allotted time. But it just seems pointless.

Sorry probably answered my own AIBU and this is turning into more of a rant! But really!?!? Who are these people...

Gosh I hadn't realised teaching is different from other high pressured jobs as it involves educating and if you click that up it would affect a persons future. With cuts to boot

Nothing like an NHS professional as paramedics, surgeons, consultants don't have that same pressure that could affect a persons future or cuts to services....

Don't try and make out other professionals don't have pressures in the same way as it just makes 'teachers' look silly

Teachers work hard and if course have pressure, so do others

What teacher on this thread has said that @ivykaty44? It’s others making comments of that ilk. Each profession has its own pressures and stress factors and it’s impossible to compare them.

It’s the people who claim they know what it’s like to be a teacher and pass judgement on our workload, terms and conditions etc that really drive me mad. I’d never question my GP, lawyer etc and pass comment on how they work as I’ve not got a fecking clue about the holistic nature of their job.

I didn't state a 'teacher' had written a post. As another poster said - please read the thread.

*@ivykaty44 *
*Gosh I hadn't realised teaching is different from other high pressured jobs as it involves educating and if you click that up it would affect a persons future. With cuts to boot

Nothing like an NHS professional as paramedics, surgeons, consultants don't have that same pressure that could affect a persons future or cuts to services....*

*Don't try and make out other professionals don't have pressures in the same way as it just makes 'teachers' look silly

Teachers work hard and if course have pressure, so do others*

You said this ☝️ and I have read the full thread ta very much (and to be perfectly honest I’m amazed it’s still rumbling on.* And the OP has disappeared.* We will now never know if her wee snowflake had an egg as his snack)

Yes I said it as the post a few above seems to think that teachers are special snowflakes with different pressures to everyone else. It doesn't do teachers any favours

Tw1 there was one teacher up thread indicating that no one would know how hard it was unless they teach

But that's fair enough, do any of us really know how hard a job is that we don't do. That isn't saying that we work harder than everyone else.

We will now never know if her wee snowflake had an egg as his snack
This is what amused me about this thread.
It's turned into a bun fight over people receiving emails and lots of people miss ghe fact that the urgent email request was 'i want my child to have an egg for snack and not a piece of fruit like every other child in school'

I would treat an email like that totally differently to one that was reasonable and useful.

I’d be tempted to ignore it and pretend it went into my spam folder 😉

That was a joke for all those who are about to slag me off for refusing to acknowledge a genuine enquiry from a reasonable parent. #ironyalert

MS
That sounds lile an egg-cellent idea.

Thanks @MaisyPops I know it’s early to be cracking jokes but.....people have had un oeuf of the serious stuff on the thread now.

Other teachers should poach your idea MsLeh

I know @TansyVioletta teachers appreciate a good yolk, given the stress we are under. No other job or profession knows stress like we have. And they won’t shell out any eggstra money for us poor teachers either.

You're over-egging it. I'd eggnore such an email, too though.

Now everyone's going to scramble to make egg jokes

Egg jokes aren’t all they’re cracked up to be tbh.

You could always just send the email to the school office, at any time.

It would make more sense for them to do this anyway - the school office could probably just reply to a lot of mails without them needing to be seen by an individual teacher.

But that's not what they'very chosen to do, so they should use the technology and control it themselves, at the server level. Set rules and filters, allow mails from internal addresses, exam boards etc through at any time. Hold others until the hours you define. Then it won't matter if you have a pissed parent rant who ignores the rule not to send till 8am, because it still won't get to the teacher until working hours.

As a form tutor I really don't mind when the parents of my tutees email me even when it is daft stuff. It helps me build a relationship over time. I have 26 in my tutor group and so at most I am going to get one email a day - mine are year 10 and so I get a few a week. I would rather they emailed me than the office.

But MS they have cracked me up and given some light relief.

tw1, I think it's different at secondary level, where there is very little face-to-face contact with parents. There is definitely more of an expectation at secondary level that parents are able to contact the teacher directly. Obviously op's egg snack crisis pertains to ks1.

egg snack crisis snegg crisis?

Sneggsis

Fair point @RainyApril .

Sneg-gate. Snegageddon 😃

It is silly but parents really should not be e-mailing teachers directly. Depending on the issue should e-mail the Secretary-/admin manager/business manager or ask for appt with Class Teacher.

Why shouldn't they email directly @cherish123 . I email my daughter's teachers