Save a forest
Some regulator or lawyer decided that the Turlock Unified School District needed to send out a 35 page parent notification book. It contains numerous and sundry legal notifications (many in legalese) such as the rights of parents and guardians, nondiscrimination statements, unlawful harassment statements, asbestos hazard notification, pesticide notification...

What am I supposed to do with all of this information? I'm not going to sit down and read it. And I don't have a file for it. If I ever want to refer to it I'll never find the tome.

From my perspective, it would be better to slap all this stuff up on the web and then to distribute a single half sheet of paper to each family with the url and a list of what they can find there. Most people would toss the paper but it would still raise awareness of the district's website -- which should be the sole public filing cabinet for this kind of information.

This is the 21st century; everyone has access to the web at work, home, or the library. Think of how many more teachers we could hire if we didn't have to buy a forest every year to notify parents that a consulting firm has been hired to "complete the required three-year reinspection of all asbestos-containing building materials in the District" and that "a copy of the District's Management Plan is available for review during normal office hours in the school district. If copies of the plan are desired, a nominal duplicating fee may be charged." Think.