[LM_NET] TARGET: Collecting Reading Counts Complaints to send to Corporate Office

[Ginny Raska <graska@MAIL.SWEENY.ISD.ESC4.NET>]

To all Reading Counts Users:

Let us use our collective buying power to try to make a difference.

I propose that we gather our complaints to send to their corporate office as a 
group of dissatisfied customers. I am collecting e-mails (until Friday, Sept. 12) 
here, and another librarian is collecting them on our Texas library listserv, and 
we plan to forward these to their New York office.  Here are the specifics:
*         E-mail me through the listserv
*         Give your name, district, campus, contact information, and number of 
years using RC
*         Give a brief description of why you feel the new pricing/timeline isn't 
appropriate
*         Please give specific supporting details when possible such as $ amount 
paid to Scholastic over the years, the inappropriateness of having all quizzes 
available to all grade levels, lack of funding for conversion, lack of funding for 
yearly subscription, possibility of dropping the program all together, etc.

While, this type of conversion may be inevitable, I think we need to express to 
Scholastic how this sudden shift has affected their users.  They seem to think that 
many of us will welcome these changes, and they need to know that what a serious 
problem is created by the lack of time they have given us for planning for change.  
 Perhaps, if nothing else, we could get them to make some changes in the way that 
they implement the shift.  I would like to see them give us some type of discount 
based on the total number of quizzes that we own rather than the ones that were 
purchased in the last year.

Hopefully, together we can make a difference

Ginny Raska
Librarian
Sweeny Junior High
Sweeny, Texas
979 491-8240
graska@mailDOTsweenyDOTisdDOTesc4DOTnet


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