{"id":254,"date":"2016-12-27T06:19:46","date_gmt":"2016-12-27T06:19:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mathwise.net\/?p=254"},"modified":"2016-12-27T06:19:46","modified_gmt":"2016-12-27T06:19:46","slug":"school-answering-machine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mathwise.net\/?p=254","title":{"rendered":"School Answering Machine"},"content":{"rendered":"<a name=\"wptoc_0_0_0\"><\/a><h1>School Answering Machine<\/h1>\n<p>This is the message the Pacific Palisades High School (California) Staff voted unanimously to record on their school telephone answering machine. This came about because they implemented a policy requiring students and parents to be responsible for their children\\&#8217;s absences and missing homework. The school and teachers are being sued by parents who want their children\\&#8217;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.<\/p>\n<p>This is the actual answering machine message for the school:<\/p>\n<p>\\&#8221;Hello! You have reached the automated answering service of your school. In order to assist you in connecting the right staff member, please listen to all your options before making a selection:\\&#8221;<br \/>\n\\&#8221;To lie about why your child is absent &#8211; Press 1\\&#8221;<br \/>\n\\&#8221;To make excuses for why your child did not do his work- Press 2\\&#8221;<br \/>\n\\&#8221;To complain about what we do &#8211; Press 3\\&#8221;<br \/>\n\\&#8221;To swear at staff members &#8211; Press 4\\&#8221;<br \/>\n\\&#8221;To ask why you didn\\&#8217;t get information that was already enclosed in your newsletter and several flyers mailed to you &#8211; Press 5\\&#8221;<br \/>\n\\&#8221;If you want us to raise your child &#8211; Press 6\\&#8221;<br \/>\n\\&#8221;If you want to reach out and touch, slap or hit someone &#8211; Press 7\\&#8221;<br \/>\n\\&#8221;To request another teacher for the third time this year- Press 8\\&#8221;<br \/>\n\\&#8221;To complain about bus transportation &#8211; Press 9\\&#8221;<br \/>\n\\&#8221;To complain about school lunches &#8211; Press 0\\&#8221;<br \/>\n\\&#8221;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\\&#8217;s not the teachers\\&#8217; fault for your child\\&#8217;s lack of effort&#8230;hang up and have a nice day!\\&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<a name=\"wptoc_0_1_0\"><\/a><h2><\/h2>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>School Answering Machine This is the message the Pacific Palisades High School (California) Staff voted unanimously to record on their school telephone answering machine. This came about because they implemented a policy requiring students and parents to be responsible for their children\\&#8217;s absences and missing homework. The school and teachers are being sued by parents &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mathwise.net\/?p=254\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">School Answering Machine<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-254","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathwise.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathwise.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathwise.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathwise.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathwise.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=254"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mathwise.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathwise.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathwise.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathwise.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}