Here’s an actual honest-to-God recent email from a California high-school principal to parents:

Greetings from [name of principal and name of school]. We are trying to improve how the district and staff communicates with you, our educational community. In order to do so, we need to ensure that we have your latest email address in our student information system. Please check your primary email account for a copy of this message. If you received it, we already have your current email address on file and you do not need to do anything. If you did not receive an email, we do not have your current email in our system. In that case, please send us an email from your current email address so that we can update our records. The email should be sent to [email address] with the following information: 1) your child’s first and last name 2) the names of any siblings also attending [school name] and 3) parent or guardian name. If you have children attending other schools in the district, you will need to update your information at each school. Thank you for your help in updating our records. We hope to improve how we communicate with you in order to help our children have a more powerful and effective learning environment. Thank you.

 
So: If you didn’t get the email, please email them to let them know. And when you email them, you might point out that “district and staff” is plural, so the verb should be too.

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