School Phone tree question

[tc1]

I don't think fighting this battle is worth the aggravation, even if it is a friendly battle. When one has to put together a phone/calling list, people who have privacy-fetish driven rules about contacting them cause a huge amount of extra work for nobody's gain. Except the privacy fetish person.
If it is really that important to you to not be bothered, get voice mail.

[uforgot]

I don't think fighting this battle is worth the aggravation, even if it is a friendly battle. When one has to put together a phone/calling list, people who have privacy-fetish driven rules about contacting them cause a huge amount of extra work for nobody's gain. Except the privacy fetish person.
If it is really that important to you to not be bothered, get voice mail.

I have voice mail. Not answering at 5am is not an option. I'm expected to take the call and make the next call or the tree is broken. This isn't a parent evening thing. This thread just took that turn for a bit, and I found that part interesting. It's teachers and staff early morning on snow days to let us know school is canceled, and I sometimes have to wait up to 30 minutes after I my receive my text to "run" my part of the phone tree because that is how slow it is. As for putting together a list, why can't they just collect the names of those that want to be on it like they did in the past? This list is not for students or parents, it's not a school directory or anything else. It is simply a call to let us know school is canceled. That's it. With our text service, I don't need the call. The bank sponsors the text, but our school sends it, so basically I'm getting the info from the same source twice. With a 30 minute wait for the call.

My school won't even distribute staff directories and if a parent wants to contact a teacher by email they have to click a link on our school website. Emails are not visible. So you see, this really isn't important in the grand scheme of things, just annoying.

[Crankin]

Yea, this is a teacher thing. At my last school, we were asked if we wanted to be on the chain. Last year, when I did the long term sub job, I was not on there, obviously, since I started in Feb. There was one delayed opening a couple of weeks later; I heard it on TV a lot earlier than I would have received the call.
The school I worked in before that routinely started the chain at 5 AM. At the last school, it was sometimes 6 before I got called... after I had gone back to sleep because I had already seen it on the news.