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Student suspended over call from mom in Iraq

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High Lonesome said:
I already said it once, but seems like it needs to be said again...short of threating physical violence there is nothing this kid could have said that was out of line.
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Oh I don't know Lonesome... how about "Bite me you Sooner loving, Wolverine worshipping bitch!" Wouldn't that be insulting enough??? :lol:

Seriously though, the "rules are rules" thing gets really tired after a while. If you're a teacher and you can't have some compassion for a kid whose mother is a world away and facing death on a daily basis, maybe you shouldn't be around kids...and you are certainly an assclown. I don't blame the teacher for getting mad if the kid said something really odious...the point is the teacher never should have attempted to stop the call in the first place when they found out what it was (maybe ask the kid to step into the hall or something).
 
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scarletandgrey said:
the school needs to atl least revoke the 10 day suspension that is just ridiculous. I bet there is going to be a rule change real fast in that school.
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If I were the principal there would a swift butt-kicking followed by an apology to the kid, his mother; and then an arranged phone call time from the principals office on the school's dime.

And High Lonesome -- absolutely dead-on.
 
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tibor75 said:
True. We also don't know what the kid said afterwards.
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I don't give a shit what the kid said afterwards...the school forced him to terminate his phone call with his mother 5,000 miles away in a fucking war zone, during lunch time no less.

Let me let you in on a little secret...folks over in Iraq don't exactly have all day to make phone calls back to the USA. With the time difference and the round-the-clock shifts there, that may have been the only time she could get hold of him because of duty commitments.

Tell you all what, that school is pretty fucking lucky that it wasn't my kid in school and my wife in Iraq...
 
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MililaniBuckeye said:
I don't give a shit what the kid said afterwards...the school forced him to terminate his phone call with his mother 5,000 miles away in a fucking war zone, during lunch time no less.

Let me let you in on a little secret...folks over in Iraq don't exactly have all day to make phone calls back to the USA. With the time difference and the round-the-clock shifts there, that may have been the only time she could get hold of him because of duty commitments.

Tell you all what, that school is pretty fucking lucky that it wasn't my kid in school and my wife in Iraq...
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remind me later to become a good lawyer. For some reason I think your going to need one in the future Mili:wink2:
 
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The democrat thing was a joke, cuz it was about the mother in Iraq.. so don't take that seriously..


But in all seriousness... If the school has a problem with children talking on cell phones, don't let them bring them to school.

They let the kids bring them for a reason, to talk my guess for emergencies.. what greater emergency than a mother calling from Iraq in the middle of her duties in what could possibly be her last day of life.
 
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This is ridiculous. Given the situation they should have simply let the kid go. I am a teacher, and must admit this sounds idiotic. That said, we tell the kids to turn the phones off when they have them in school, but they simply turn off the ringer-you can see the phones jumping in their backpacks sometimes.
 
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MililaniBuckeye said:
I don't give a shit what the kid said afterwards...the school forced him to terminate his phone call with his mother 5,000 miles away in a fucking war zone, during lunch time no less.

Let me let you in on a little secret...folks over in Iraq don't exactly have all day to make phone calls back to the USA. With the time difference and the round-the-clock shifts there, that may have been the only time she could get hold of him because of duty commitments.

Tell you all what, that school is pretty fucking lucky that it wasn't my kid in school and my wife in Iraq...
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I agree completely. "Zero tolerance", rules are rules, blah blah...I would've told the teacher who I was talking to and where she was, and if they told me to end the call I probably would have told them to fuck their hand.
I think it boils down to responsibility- nobody wants to be responsible for letting someone break the rules, so they act like zombies in the face of a common sense decision. Reminds me of a story a couple years ago about an elementary school kid who was suspended for violating a zero tolerance policy when he drew a picture of himself and his dad going hunting.
These people are morons.
 
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It's hard for me to make any judgements without know how the teacher handled it initially and what the kid said in response. I can certainly imagine some scenarios where I would say the kid was at fault, and many scenarios where I would say the teacher was wrong. I doubt lunch duty is a lot of fun for teachers. Unfortunate situation, and not really worth all the angst that it has created in this thread and elsewhere.
 
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What I have read the kid's reaction should have been expected.

1) His mother is serving in Iraq and has the opportunity to call her son on the average of 1-2 a month.

2) The kid was not missing any class as he was at lunch.

3) The teacher (Mr. Turner) told the kid to hang up the phone and after the kid refused (after telling the teacher it was his Mom in Iraq) the teacher physically tried to take the phone from him. The resultant action was that the phone call was disconnected. Right there they would have pissed me off.

4) After the phone was confiscated and the kid was in the school office his mother tried to call him back. She did not realize the situation and left him a message regarding how rude it was for him to hang up on her. While the phone is ringing the dumbasses at the school still wouldn't let the kid talk to his mother. Imagine seeing the caller ID and knowing it was an international call and still telling the kid he cannot talk to his mother. How callous is that!!! The kid had every right to go off on the school officials. They screwed up the situation not once but now twice!!

5) Where is the kid's father you ask to help with this situation? He died when the kid was five years old.


Here is the link to another report on the situation.

http://www.ledger-enquirer.com/mld/ledgerenquirer/news/11575912.htm
 
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This is a story about an officious ass who didn't have any empathy or compassion for a child in his care and who should thus be asked to find another profession. Lunchtime at school would make it about 8 or 9pm in Iraq, right? Does this ass know that American GIs stand in line for hours to make calls sometimes? And what if this kid's mother should be hurt or killed in action the next day?

I'm sure they still teach something about patriotism in the American school system. Clearly, it needs some emphasis in this school and this official needs a written reprimand.
 
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the salt in the wound is that the kid has a 10 day suspension. not even in school suspension or anything of the sort. while it has been a while since i was in high school, i do recall that you had to seriously try hard to get suspended for 10 days.
 
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