#7. To: RickyJ, christine, Original_Intent, James Deffenbach, Turtle (#4)
This is a joke, no school has this on their answering machine. They want to keep their jobs.
You are correct. According to Snopes it began as a joke or more accurately, an exercise in frustration at Pacific Palisades Charter High School in 2002, and was then borrowed for the Aussie version in 2009.
In both cases it was never actually used on the schools' answering machines.