Schools need to join the 21st century

Communicating with schools and school districts is perhaps the most frustrating exercise someone can go through. In my business, I need to line up my delivery schedules based upon homecoming dates of the various schools. One would think this would be a relatively easy job. You would, however be wrong.

First instict is to go to the school's website where surely they have the schedule posted. You would be wrong. Some schools have moved into the 21st century and have nice websites where you can find information pretty easily. Of these schools, about half of them either have last year's schedule posted or do not have the schedule at all. Then there are those that have the schedule but do not indicate which game is their homecoming.

Some school districts like Dallas and Fort Worth have terrible websites where bare minimum information is posted. But at least the phone number is listed so you can call and get the information easily right? Wrong again. Do you know that it is less than a week before school starts with homecoming games beginning on September 10th for some schools and the schools cannot tell you when their homecoming date is?

Really!? With all the coordinating that has to take place to schedule the games, I cannot believe that the school's athletic directors do not have the dates of the games.

So now what to do? I guess I will rely on you to tell me when your school's homecoming is.