Bad connection

[snopes]

The "What's New" category of snopes.com investigates an Internet report that the message on Palisades High's answering machine offers the following options:

• "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."

And so on. The message supposedly concludes: "If you realize this is the real world and your child must be accountable and responsible for his/her own behavior, classwork, homework, and that it's not the teachers' fault for your child's lack of effort, hang up and have a nice day!"

In reality, there is no such recording. The anonymous fake message was written after the school district overruled a school policy of flunking students with numerous unexcused absences.

As snopes.com points out, the Internet version "often omits the introductory line, 'Too bad they can't actually use it…. '"

http://www.latimes.com/news/columnis...2305434.column