My phone rings and I rush to find it waiting in anticipation for me to fiddle with it. It's a 312 number that I don't recognize. I am really unsure why I answered it- it's not my style to answer an unknown number. But today I did. And that is the first peculiar thing about this 52 second series of events.
It was an automated message. I usually hang up---but I was on a role and playing the un-Dana so well that I decided to listen. Peculiarity #2. It was from Chicago Public schools. The normal Dana would've just hung up but I didn't. Peculiarity #3.
The automated voice was pleasant. I wish they would get someone from the CPS mailroom to do the automated voice instead---spice it up a bit. Or maybe they could get any one of the CPS school clerks who have been that not-so-friendly face in the school office for 32 years +. You know that school front office manager that treats you, the parent, like you are a child with late crumpled attendance slips trying to sneak a piece of stale candy from the porcelain red apple dish on the counter?
Anyway, it was a pleasant voice and she requested that I listen and consider taking a survey. I mean the un-Dana wanted to so I appeased her. The voice explained that it should only take 5-7 minutes. Now, the maximum time I ever allot for providing my opinion to automated voices is a 3 question minimum and it that should only take 2 minutes tops. But peculiarity #4 was bursting to the surface so I decided to complete the survey. And "the voice" was so pleasant.
First question:
Do you have a school aged child or grandchild (shout out to the grandparents raising their children's children!) currently attending a CPS school? I am a homeschooling mom who got fed up with CPS and so I pressed the digit that corresponded to the "No" but I was feeling that they should've had a "Hell No!" option to pressor maybe even a "been there done that" option.
As soon as I pressed the button she said: "This survey will now end Thank You!"
I thought about the public school my son attended and the others where I taught, and then the 12 others where I trained the after-school coordinators. I think I have a lot to say that is of value.
I am very curious about the content of the other 6:08 seconds. What did they ask those other parents? !?!?! I'd really like to know.
I do hope they call me back and ask why I removed my son from their environment. I think they probably wanted to know if the parent or legal guardian, or grandparent, was happy with the school their child is attending.
Most schools across the city aren't doing well--maybe 5% are.
Doesn't "the voice" realize the state of the schools and that no one is satisfied with the CPS system?
Peculiar
It was an automated message. I usually hang up---but I was on a role and playing the un-Dana so well that I decided to listen. Peculiarity #2. It was from Chicago Public schools. The normal Dana would've just hung up but I didn't. Peculiarity #3.
The automated voice was pleasant. I wish they would get someone from the CPS mailroom to do the automated voice instead---spice it up a bit. Or maybe they could get any one of the CPS school clerks who have been that not-so-friendly face in the school office for 32 years +. You know that school front office manager that treats you, the parent, like you are a child with late crumpled attendance slips trying to sneak a piece of stale candy from the porcelain red apple dish on the counter?
Anyway, it was a pleasant voice and she requested that I listen and consider taking a survey. I mean the un-Dana wanted to so I appeased her. The voice explained that it should only take 5-7 minutes. Now, the maximum time I ever allot for providing my opinion to automated voices is a 3 question minimum and it that should only take 2 minutes tops. But peculiarity #4 was bursting to the surface so I decided to complete the survey. And "the voice" was so pleasant.
First question:
Do you have a school aged child or grandchild (shout out to the grandparents raising their children's children!) currently attending a CPS school? I am a homeschooling mom who got fed up with CPS and so I pressed the digit that corresponded to the "No" but I was feeling that they should've had a "Hell No!" option to pressor maybe even a "been there done that" option.
As soon as I pressed the button she said: "This survey will now end Thank You!"
I thought about the public school my son attended and the others where I taught, and then the 12 others where I trained the after-school coordinators. I think I have a lot to say that is of value.
I am very curious about the content of the other 6:08 seconds. What did they ask those other parents? !?!?! I'd really like to know.
I do hope they call me back and ask why I removed my son from their environment. I think they probably wanted to know if the parent or legal guardian, or grandparent, was happy with the school their child is attending.
Most schools across the city aren't doing well--maybe 5% are.
Doesn't "the voice" realize the state of the schools and that no one is satisfied with the CPS system?
Peculiar
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