I’m not necessarily one to just post an email forward, but this made me laugh too hard not to share.  If you’re not in education you may not appreciate this as much…

SCHOOL ANSWERING MACHINE

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 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!

Call me soft, but I pulled one of my favorite movie quotes because I was getting too much slack…For those of you that already read it…I still like it:)

Today as I spent my time on the elliptical machine, I saw out of the corner of my eye, a 7
0+ year old man with a walker…

Here’s to hoping that:
a.  I’m married by the time I’m that age 🙂
b.  My husband cares that much about fitness, even if he does need a walker to get around
c.  I can go a little bit faster than the precious lady going about 0.5mph on the treadmill (she was probably about 70 too)

When walking through the shower section of the locker room at Fitness USA, just look straight ahead.  🙂