School Reach Program
Grainger County Schools recently
adopted SchoolReach, a telephone broadcasting service, to help keep
our parents better informed about school happenings. The
program allows us to contact hundreds of households within a short
amount of time. This system will be utilized to notify
parents of emergency situations (early dismissal, cancellations, or
late starts) as well as regular announcements such as school
picture days, parent-teacher conferences, and other upcoming
events.
Grainger County Schools will continue
to report school closings due to snow or weather on local radio and
television stations and will use this system as an overlay to the
public announcements.
-When used, SchoolReach will simultaneously call all phone
numbers on the Joppa Elementary School contact list and deliver a
recorded message. The service delivers the message to both
live answer and answering machines. If there is no answer or
a busy signal the service will retry the call twice at 15
minute intervals.
-All information and contact numbers are strictly secure and
confidential and are used only for the purposes described
above.
-Please note that when this service is utilized your caller ID
will read: 865-828-5721 (Joppa Elementary School).
-Maximum number of rings before hang-up is 5.
-If answering the phone, say "hello" and hold for the message to
begin.
-In the event of a cancellation made the night before or in the
early morning, calls will be made to home phone numbers only.
In the event of a cancellation made mid-day, calls will be made to
both home and cellular numbers.
-The message may be repeated by pressing one after the message
is complete.
*If you have any questions please feel free to contact: Joppa
Elementary School at
(865) 828-5721
