Posted on 02/12/2008 3:37:33 PM PST by Clintonfatigued
The parents of all 2,550 Palm Bay High School students received a phone call informing them that their child was due for weekend detention.
No, there was no coordinated uprising at the school. An accidental push of a button sent the automated call to the homes of the entire student body instead of the intended 16.
One parent didn't believe her son's protests that he had done nothing wrong and took him to school Saturday morning anyway. When they learned of the glitch, Amy Stewart took her son Jimmy to breakfast to make up for it.
Assistant superintendend Steve Muzzy called the problem "an unfortunate human mistake."
(Excerpt) Read more at wwsb.com ...
This isn’t new in our district. It’s been around for a few years.
I’d be a cold day you know where before I’d co-operate with that; and yet, parents do. The kids show up.
One disgruntled survivor programmed it to call the home number of the president of the company every 15 minutes.
Naturally, once the calling number was tracked back to a company lab, ... the programmer found himself still disgruntled, and also unemployed.
I bet the system is an off-shoot of a system to inform residents in towns nearby a prison that some dangerous convicts just escaped, and it might be a good idea to secure the domicile, and not open the door to any strangers...
when for the love of God are parents going to stand up and say enough is enough!? SHUT THEM DOWN NOW!
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