AF - Very Important: Please read and pass the word

Let me start with the bottom line, and then I'll follow with the explanation.

The bottom line:  When you request an invitation to the blog, YOU MUST USE AN EMAIL THAT IS NOT your school email.  Sorry.  I thought that had been worked out, but it is not.

The explanation:

I set up this blog using my busd.k12.ca.us account, but the district has our network set up so that somehow, busd.k12.ca.us and s.busd.k12.ca.us do not communicate with one another.  (Discreet eye roll.)

I'm sure there's a good reason, but I don't know what it is.  It has something to do with your online security, I'll bet.  

Our choices at this point are to scrap what we have here and start over, and I'm pretty sure that would mean a new URL, which at this point would be disastrous...

...or we can just continue to do what we have been doing for the past 10 years, which is to ask students to use another gmail account.

[Good gravy, I just need a big DO OVER on that little blue sheet, don't I?]

Anyway, please use a regular gmail account.  Create one if necessary.  Using a "homemade" gmail account is great, it works, but please use your actual name.

The REASON I tried to ask you to use your school account in the first place is because I have had years and years of trying to figure out who I am talking to by looking at emails from ICYHOT675 or UNICORNBABE.  

Life will be fine this summer if you just use a gmail account with your regular name that will be in our gradebooks, and you write four posts and eight comments on the blog, and you read everything that Ms. Colln and I write on the blog.  

Speaking of that:  See the subject line, starting with AF?  That's me, Alexandra Fletcher.  When Ms. Colln writes, her posts will have a leading KC in the subject line.  Either way, these are important to read.