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I love technology, and with technology comes email. With email comes forwards.
Forwards are annoying, and eventually I just junked all of the people's emails who sent me the annoying forwards.
Forwards also get more select as you get older, and eventually just the funny ones come my way.

To tie in with this, this next copy of an email was a forward from my mother. It's about a high school answering machine. 
Just fresh out of high school myself, I loved this email and really wish that my school had it. 
I really have a problem with the lack of accountability in the school system and how kids are just pushed through. 

Enjoy! 

This is hilarious - no wonder some people were offended!
This is themessage 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 school work 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 behaviour, 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 another language, move to a country
that speaks

it.