please take off your calling list. I get like maybe 20 calls everyday. I dial the number back and it disconnects. I have no idea who is calling. Everytime we are home and the number pops up we do not answer because it is a long distance call.
This phone number (along with a few others) comes from a company that schools ALL OVER THE COUNTRY use to notify parents about their children's performance in school and about other school notices. Okay, so that means, even though your child goes to school in Sheboygan, Wisconsin, this company is in Chicago. This call is not coming directly from your child's school office nor is it associtaed with any singular school. No one person at your child's school is calling every parent letting them know everytime their child doesn't turn in a 'required' assignment.
THIS IS NOT A SCAM! If you don't have children, then don't answer the phone when the number pops up. Add the number to your contacts as "TeleParent" or something so you'll know who it is, then don't answer. Someone, somewhere (maybe a 13 year-old student office assistant or even the teacher) may have made a typo and your number was put into their system by accident. OR maybe your phone number belonged to someone else before you got it?!?!
This is an incredible system! I love it! My daughter is in junior high and she doesn't tell me anything - good or bad. I ask my daughter all of the time, "did you do your homework, did you turn in your homework?" I always get the same answer - "yes." Later in the day (or the next day), I get a phone call from this system that tells me there were assignments not turned in. Sometimes I get calls saying my daughter received an "A" on a test! I then get to surprise her with some type of reward!
PLEASE DO NOT MAKE TROUBLE FOR THIS COMPANY! I would hate for it to go away because SOME people don't understand the purpose of it. (Think about it - that's the same reason prayer was taken out of schools and the world hasn't been the same since ;) Parents all over the country are finding out about their children's performance when they probably otherwise wouldn't (due to budget cuts and the ever popular "meeting the mailman to get the report card before the parents get home").
THIS IS HOW TO FIX THE PROBLEM -
TeleParent is available from 7am to 6pm (Chicago time). Call (800) 688-6077, option 0. If you do not have children - if you are some wack job of a parent who doesn't want to know the status of your child's performance, you can call the company and they will tell you which school is associated with your number. You can contact the school and ask them to change the information. They don't like to add numbers to their "do not call list" because the next parent who has your phone number may never know about their child's performance.