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synergy
 Post subject: 5am Phone call
PostPosted: Sat Jan 16, 2010 5:14 am 
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Thank you Halton District School Board for calling me this morning at 5am!

Yep, 5am.

Yep, Saturday morning.

I guess they wanted me to know that classes and field trips are cancelled today.

Yep, for today.

Yep, inclement weather

Thank you Halton District School Board, thank you for waking me up with that oh so important news today.

...aint technology great?
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kkeshavan
 Post subject: HDSB
PostPosted: Sat Jan 16, 2010 6:33 am 
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We also received the call from HDSB :twisted:
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What school are your kids at? I have three different schools and did not get the call. It must be from a school, not the board.
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We got it too... grrr...

The message said HDSB and schools are closed today, buses are not running and field trips are cancelled due to inclement weather. After having been up till 1am with my youngest I was not amused to be woken once again for that... especially since we all had to be up by 7am anyway...

Our boys go to PLR...

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Add us to the list we got one too !!!!!
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Us too... and we live in Acton so it wasn't just in Milton


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We got a call -- our kids are at Hawthorne Village PS. It seems like a good system to inform parents of school closures, but we weren't thrilled to be awakened from our slumber at 5am on the dot on a Saturday morning....
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Ronadt
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Another one here! My first thought was, my kids will be thrilled! But then my brain woke up. HVPS
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MiltonSchoolTrustee
 Post subject: re: 5am call
PostPosted: Sat Jan 16, 2010 11:51 am 
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I am so very sorry for the glitch in our system which sent 5 am phone calls out to all of our houses this morning.
Technology is great when it works, but when it doesn't....grrrr!
Again, my apologies to all who disturbed so early on a weekend. Please know that the Board tech department is investigating and hopefully it won;t happen again.
Donna Danielli
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daycaremom
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Thanks for the post Donna (even though I was lucky enough to be spared the call).
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MiltonSchoolTrustee
 Post subject: re 5 am call
PostPosted: Sat Jan 16, 2010 12:56 pm 
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I wish I had been that lucky, lol
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daycaremom
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lol I figured you would have gotten it. :)
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I got the call as well this morning. I figured it to be a glitch and thanks Donna for looking into it for us.

Its a great system and I know that with technology sometimes there are mixups. Its only happened like this once so I'm sure its a one off thing.

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Again, I cannot apologize enough for those who were disturbed so early this morning.
Our head of IT sent out the following explanations for those who are curious how it happened:
This message was sent in error. It occurred as a result of testing updates to the system. I.T staff did not double check the cancellation of a test message. This resulted in the system sending the message you received.

We take this situation very seriously. We apologize for waking households and for delivering an incorrect message. We apologize for undermining the value of the Home Notification System and will work to ensure this never happens again.
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Wow, there was enough complaints to take this topic to 680news this morning.

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