Rainier Beach High School Flyer

I got a promotional flyer from Rainier Beach High School. It came on an email from the Rainier Beach family support worker/marketing coordinator Virginia Owens.



Here is the flyer:

While I support the efforts of Rainier Beach High School to notify families about their programs and to promote them. I support the assignment of "marketing coordinator" duties to someone at Rainier Beach (though I think Director DeBell would be uncomfortable with it).

That said, I'm not crazy about this flyer (see comments).

The flyer was attached to an email sent on February 6 (the day before the first school tour). Owens, in the sig file of her email, gives her personal email address rather than her seattleschools.org email address and it promotes a charity that she started. That's not appropriate.

The email and the flyer went to every middle school and K-8 south of the Ship Canal - except TOPS and Pathfinder. I don't know why those schools were left off the route list.

I am charmed by the sense of urgency created by the flyer when it says: "Register your child at Rainier Beach High School NOW while there is still room!" Of course, you can't register for any school yet. Open Enrollment hasn't started. And, of course, there is plenty of room at Rainier Beach High School.