I guess I won’t be getting that Perfect Attendance award!
So, I get a call from my mom about half an hour ago that went like this:
“So, we’ve been getting these calls from Strong Vincent High School saying that your child has not been attending school.”
Me: “Ok….” (I’m thinking this is nothing, since I’ve gotten calls for other kids like this on my home phone)
“And we got a call today saying ’Your child has 2 unexcused absences’, so your father said I should probably call to make sure they weren’t calling the wrong house.”
So my mom calls Strong Vincent and pushes 1 for the Attendance office, and tells her her name, and says that she’s been getting these calls about her child not coming into school. The attendance lady asks for her phone number, looks something up, and then says:
“Oh, so Ron’s not coming back to school then?”
My mom then proceeds to tell her that Ron is 27 years old and graduated almost 10 years ago. All the lady could say was “Oh…”. Apparently they’ve been getting these calls since the school year started, almost every Sunday night - I have no idea if somehow Erie re-enrolled me in high school or something like that. They even got a call once telling them to pick up my report card; I wonder how I did?
I called SV to make sure they knew I graduated, but all they could tell me is that their records are locked up and don’t move offsite, so I’m guessing the person in the office was lazy and didn’t want to do anything. They said they’ll look into it, and that they think someone else with kids in school had my parent’s phone number, but my parents have had their number for almost 10 years as well. Plus the fact that the attendance lady said my name without my mom even offering that information to her, only the phone number.
Oh well, I guess I won’t be getting that Perfect Attendance award after all. I’m half tempted to show up just to get the cheap lunch, nap in study hall and ace some tests.
