School's Answering Machine.....good message for parents

[Kamd50]

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!
If you want this in Spanish, you must be in the wrong country

The message is clear: PARENTS are responsible for raising their children, not the schools.

[Vicke]

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!
If you want this in Spanish, you must be in the wrong country

The message is clear: PARENTS are responsible for raising their children, not the schools.

That is so true parents need to parent their children. Not the schools. As parents we should hold the children repsonsible and accountable for their actions. As parents it works the same. We instill in them proper manners, responsibility, morals, values, etc. God gave them to us to train them in the way they should go.

[chap]

So Very True!

[austinsm11]

Good post Kamd!

Although down here we would be happy to have an alternate recording in spanish and hmong.

[toneytiger]

I love it!!!Some parents and/or children never take responsibility for their own actions...it is ALWAYS someone else's fault!:wall:

[Kamd50]

I love it!!!Some parents and/or children never take responsibility for their own actions...it is ALWAYS someone else's fault!:wall:

Lol, I have to comment since my own son was just guilty of this last night ( the "it's always someone else's fault" syndrome).
He came home from school with a detention slip for talking/laughing with some other boys while another student was reading a report. Of course he said he only turned around and "listened" and "didn't do anything". And got mad when I told him that I didn't want to hear it and that obviously he did "something" and further, that I wasn't going to come and pick him up after school and he would have to walk or find his own way home.

I know, I'm mean. But I want my kid to understand that we (parents) DO mean what we say and won't accept any excuses for inappropriate behavior. And even if he was telling the truth, maybe he won't turn around next time to "listen".