This is the message that a High School Staff in California 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'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.
To lie about why your child is absent - Press 1
To make excuses for why your child did not do his/her homework - Press 2
To complain about what we do - Press 3
To swear at staff members - Press 4
To ask why you did not 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 your child 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 is not the teachers' fault for your child's lack of effort:
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