Why don’t you contact parents when children receive awards at assemblies so they can be present?

In the past we have initiated a number of plans to notify parents of upcoming awards.  The success of those plans was not consistent.  We were able to contact some, but not all parents.  This created hurt feelings and misunderstandings.  The staff had also become concerned that the EOM Assemblies had become too long and were crowding classroom instruction time.  Over the past two years we have condensed the End of the Month Assembly and have the classroom teachers present the Acme All Star Awards in the classroom, as well as the Blue Slip Winners.  At the Assembly we simply read off the names and celebrate the winners as a group.  The names are listed in the Monday Notes for public recognition.  The honored students each receive a book provided by the Acme PTA, as well as the ever-popular “Refrigerator Ready Certificate.”