esp-protocol Posted June 4, 2007 Posted June 4, 2007 I'd like to think of something similiar for some of our customers....... >SCHOOL ANSWERING MACHINE > >This is the message that apparently a Secondary School staff in the Midlands voted unanimously to record on their school telephone answering machine. > >This is the actual answering machine message for the school. It 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 now being threatened with legal action by some parents who want their children's failing marks changed to passing marks - even though those children were absent 15-30 times during the >term and did not complete enough schoolwork to pass their various key stages. > >The outgoing message: > >"Hello! You have reached the automated answering service of your school. >In order to assist you in connecting to the right member of staff, 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/her 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 letters posted to you - Press 5 > >* If you want us to bring up 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 transport - Press 9 > >* To complain about school lunches - Press 0 > >LASTLY: > >If you realize this is the real world and your child must be accountable and responsible for his/her own behaviour, class work, homework and that it's not the teachers' fault for your child's lack of effort: > >Hang up and have a really wonderful day! > >If you want this in other languages, you must be in the wrong country. >This is England. >
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