Well, the Middle School Grinches have struck again! It's starting to seem a bit willful too.
Remember when I mentioned above how I had called them the day before Thanksgiving to remind them to turn the "bells" off and they rang on Thanksgiving and the day after anyway? I thought that someone had come in on Thanksgiving after I had called the police that morning because the sounds stopped around 12:30pm. That's why I was so surprised the next day to hear them start going off again at 8:12am, but those also stopped at 12:30pm.
I couldn't figure out why this happened...........until I spoke with an office worker when I called yesterday to ask them to PLEASE not repeat that mistake over the long holiday break.
She told me that the bells were set for a half-day schedule that day before Thanksgiving. That means they did absolutely NOTHING after I called that day and the bells continued to ring on the half-day schedule on Thanksgiving and the day after.
It gets worse.
After promising me yesterday that the neighborhood wouldn't be subjected to this annoying electronic bleating over the holiday break, guess what?
Yes, that was loud cursing you may have heard emanating from my building at 8:12am today when these damn things woke me up yet again on a no-school day. I video'd it 20 minutes later and called the police again. The desk sergeant was very nice and said he understood and would try to help get them shut off.
Unfortunately, he wasn't successful. But here's the worst part: the bells were on a half-day schedule yesterday. If the Middle School people merely "forgot" again, the bells would be on the same half-day schedule again today. They weren't.
This means that after I called them pleading with them to turn the bells off for the break, someone not only didn't turn them off, but actually set them to run for the full (no)school day! They rang all day long - every class! I don't know how I can NOT begin to feel like I should take these repeated "mistakes" personally.
I called the desk sergeant again, asking him to PLEASE find somebody to turn these things off before we have to hear them again all day on CHRISTMAS! He was very sympathetic and said he'd sure try.
I'll let you know tomorrow if he was successful this time. The only bells I wanna hear tomorrow are jingle bells.
Since the school may try to deny that they switched the bells yesterday from a half-day schedule to a full-day AFTER I asked them to turn them off, I taped today's noise at both 8:33am and 2:45pm.
Here are those videos. Again - today's incompetencies were videotaped (VHS) and then shot off my TV screen during replay with my cellphone:
http://xrl.us/MSchDec24AM2009http://xrl.us/MSchDec24PM2009Whether anything happens tomorrow or not, you can bet that the superintendent will be made aware of this thread. I've had it with this idiocy.
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