NEW BERLIN - Representatives of the Unadilla Valley Central School District held a presentation last week on how the school should be communicating with parents moving forward.

According to Unadilla Valley School District’s Public Information Specialist Jake Palmateer, a couple of years ago a study was performed by the Pew Research Center looking at approximately half a million parents and how they prefered to receive information from their school districts.

“This is all about communicating with today’s parents,” said Palmateer. “How people want their communication and identifying who we’re trying to reach should be driving factors for us.”

Palmateer said one of the biggest problems the study highlighted was that approximately 20 percent of parents surveyed felt that they were being overloaded with information from their schools.

“When institutions place high information demands on people, that’s when we start to see some problems,” Palmateer added. “We forget that teachers are their own content creators as well.”