By Mariel S. Clark
DNAinfo News Editor
MANHATTAN — One East Harlem elementary school has a strange policy — teachers are banned from calling or emailing parents unless they get the okay from a supervisor, the New York Post reported.
PS 146 teachers also cannot call parents after school hours and must use a school phone to do so, not their personal cell phones or email accounts, the paper reported.
"All student concerns, phone calls to parents, any communication with parents/guardians and/or personnel matters require notification/approval to your direct supervisor. ALL communication must be made from school phones only," the paper quoted the school's handbook as saying.
After seeing the handbook, Department of Education officials called the rules "inappropriate" and asked the school to remove them, according to the Post.
School officials told the paper the policy wasn't strictly enforced but some teachers said they had to record call details in a log book in the Assistant Principal's office.
