Posted: 2/23/2007 4:41:27 AM EDT
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SCHOOL ANSWERING MACHINE (This is hilarious no wonder some people were offended!) This is the message that the Pacific Palisades High School(California) staff voted unanimously to record on their school telephone answering machine. This is the actual answering machine message for the school. This came about because they implemented a policy requiring students and parents to be responsible for their children's absences and missing homework. The school and teachers are being sued by parents who want their children's failing grades changed to passing grades - even though those children were absent 15-30 times during the semester and did not complete enough schoolwork to pass their classes. ___________________________________________________ The outgoing message: "Hello! You have reached the automated answering service of your school. In order to assist you in connecting to the right staff member, please listen to all the options before making selection: * To lie about why your child is absent - Press 1 * To make excuses for why your child did not do his work- Press 2 * To complain about what we do - Press 3 * To swear at staff members - Press 4 * To ask why you didn't get information that was already enclosed in your newsletter and several flyers mailed to you - Press 5 * If you want us to raise your child - Press 6 * If you want to reach out and touch, slap or hit someone -Press 7 * To request another teacher, for the third time this year -Press 8 * To complain about bus transportation - Press 9 * To complain about school lunches - Press 0 * If you realize this is the real world and your child must be accountable and responsible for his/her own behavior, class work, homework and that it's not the teachers' fault for your child's lack of effort: Hang up and have a nice day! * If you want this in Spanish, you must be in the wrong country |
| The school that I work in is one of the best in the state but I swear it has the "neediest" parents because of it. If a kid does anything out of the ordinary there is a "plan" put in place and a strict agenda that is to be followed until that kid can "assimilate" back into the classroom. I work with the Special Ed kids and it's funny because sometimes I hear non-SPED kids saying things like they wished they were SPED so they could get away with more. hool |
Posted by MrsJackal:
OMG. That is frightening. Pink Floyd in real life. Thought control, Borg...... Betcha not many successful artists will come out of that environment. how Kitties |
 This has also made me wonder about my brother, who, many years ago, SKIPPED the 2nd grade. I'm not joking. He was old enough for the second grade, but too smart for it and moved up to the third grade. But what if he were born later in today's environment of political correctness and celebrating mediocrity? Would my brother (or anyone else of that intelligence) still be able to skip the second grade, or would he be held back? 
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When I was in school... You could tell the teachers from the kids simply by the way they dressed. Every teacher had a paddle, usually on display. My parents had a simple rule, if I got in trouble in school, I would be in twice the trouble at home. They also believed in taking action THEN asking questions. We definitely had less crowd control issues in the school systems. Lois |