D-7.0 STUDENT TO PARENT

D-7.1 PHONE CALLS HOME

Chapter D - Communication

Part 7.0 Student to Parent

Section 7.1 Phone Calls Home

Policy Statement: 

Phone Calls Home

Students are generally not allowed to use the school telephones to call home during the day.  In cases of illness or injury, the school secretary will call the parent.  Students should not be sent to the office to call home.  If teachers instruct a student to call home to report missing work, etc., the teacher must supervise the phone call (which should be made from the teacher's room) and the student MUST leave a message on the home phone if no one answers the phone.  If this protocol isn't followed, parents arrive home, see that American Prep has called, and they call the school asking why.  The secretaries don't know where the call originated and cannot help the parents.  This happens daily at American Prep (5-6 times day) and our goal is to eliminate those calls completely.