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‘Please remove my name’: ESOL email blitz roars back to life in Pasco County schools

District officials revised emailing protocols after the 'reply to all' message inundated inboxes in August.
 
Published Jan. 19, 2018

If ever you needed proof positive that nothing dies on the Internet, the Pasco County school district has it.

An ESOL training email thought dead and buried last fall after responses filled annoyed recipients' inboxes resurfaced with a vengeance Thursday, as one teacher reopened the memo and again hit "reply to all."

"Hey, I want to get on that ESOL list I forgot about in the fall. Anybody know how I get on the ESOL list?" Trinity Oaks Elementary fifth grade teacher Kevin Baldwin wrote. "And I keep hearing good things about that HESS program. Anybody? If you could all reply to me, that would help."

His request went out to dozens upon dozens of teachers throughout Pasco County. And they were not pleased, as they continued the "madness" by also clicking on "reply to all" to register their views.

More than 60 responses landed in the busy educators' email accounts. Many contained a similar message: "Please remove me from this list."

"It is very frustrating having my email going off every few seconds," one teacher added.

The repeat performance from the fall was not lost on several in the chain, some of whom passed around the Gradebook's August posts on the activity, giving the entries a new lease on life.

"Here we go again," one teacher wrote.

"Right?? Pasco's finest!! We can't figure out how to ignore or delete emails and then we reply to ALL complaining that replying to all is annoying!! Gotta love it!!" chimed in another, also replying to all.

Some teachers added memes and videos poking fun at the situation. Others offered recommendations on how to avoid this situation in the future, such as using blind copies (a practice the district already has employed), or more simply, "stop replying all."

Despite all the irked answers, at least one teacher wasn't too bothered.

"I, for one, am thoroughly entertained," wrote Sunlake High teacher George L. Bennett II.

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