Leave A Message

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 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 fliers 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.