What would you say if you called your kid's school, and heard this message? (Joke)

[Commander PK]

I received this in an email, and I thought it was hilarious. Unfortunately, I checked snopes, and found that it was false.

http://www.snopes.com/humor/iftrue/palisades.asp

I think it's still pretty funny, and I think some schools SHOULD have this as their answering machine message.

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 school work 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 a 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!

[techboy]

I have often joked with my colleagues that we need "real-life" comments for the report card software. Forget "inconsistent effort", I want "lazy" and perhaps "apple not far from tree"!

[dcnativenerd]

That is hilarious and WAAAY too true.

[One Shot]

:laugh: good stuff...

[dfitzo53]

Forget "inconsistent effort", I want "lazy" and perhaps "apple not far from tree"!

:laugh:

There are times you just want to say, "Mrs. Doe, Johnny is failing because he's just like you."