The kid deserves a suspension. His mom may be in Iraq, I wonder where his dad is.....
If you read the article his Dad passed away when he was five. And let me tell you something. He got out of control because the people of authority are stupid and rigid. He was talking to his Mother outside the building on his lunch hour in Iraq. According to the article he told the teacher what was going on and when she caused the call to be disconnected he got frustrated. I DON'T BLAME HIM. Then, when the phone rang again and they wouldn't let him answer, that's when he used profanity. SO WOULD I. It's called common sense, and the education system has NONE OF IT.
I get the sense there may be more to this than is in the story.
in another thread i found out that his dad dies years ago.
the teacher should have backed off when the kid told her that it was his mom in Iraq. Teach grabbed for the phone instead, which made the kid irate. it would have done far worse to me, and the school shouuld apologise.
that said, for the kid to use this as an excuse to allow his grades to go down is just as dumb.
He gets a call from his Mom once a month, for Criminy sake.
Go back to DU.
wonder who his dad is.....
See the next post - Daddy was killed when he was five - and his mother can only call once a month. I agree, the kid shouldn't have gotten out of line, but the school should be able to make an exception for a once a month call, Perhaps the school should take a chill pill...
Stupidity like that does not even warrant a response.
The kid was on the phone outside, alone during lunch hour. That was on his own time.
His father was dead, he lives with a guardian. His mom, probably the most stable influence in his life was on a rare phone call from a freaking war zone a half a world away. Some stupid chip on her shoulder, overzealous thug of a teacher with no sense at all comes and rips his phone, his property, from his hand and tries to march him off to see the principal. The stupid principal has him so tied up in knots that he misses her next call too.
OK, I'm done ranting now.
"The headline is wrong. The smart-mouth got suspended for being defiant, disorderly, using profanity, getting out of control, etc."
If my mom was in Iraq, and a teacher told me to hang up on her, I might be defiant, profane and out of control, too.
Know why?
BECAUSE THERE'S EVERY POSSIBILITY IT MIGHT BE THE LAST TIME I GET TO TALK TO HER! ! !
When our son was in Iraq, we welcomed his calls any time of the day or night or our personal situation, for the same reason.
Somebody get ahold of O-Reilly. School is going to get some heat for this one.
With such jackasses for leadership at that school, who blames the kid for using some bad language.
He is entitled.
His mom in Iraq gives him a call, probably one of the few he is able to receive from her, and they tell him to turn off the phone.
His reaction was a bit over-the-top, but understandable, and I salute him.
The kid should drop out and just get his GED or HSED at a junior college or something. Screw the public high school nothing but a bunch of commies anyway.
The boy shouldn't have used profanity, but I would have been extremely angry and showed it, if a teacher had done the same thing to me. The boy had a right to stand up for himself. And yes, I was taught to be respectful. But I was taught that people in authority can also be wrong.
(In fact, there's something familiar about it).
I sent an email to the princial at the school, protesting the rigid policy and asking for the staff to re-consider the suspension.
This student reacted in a normal way, in my opinion. The teachers are SUPPOSED to be the adults and react accordingly.
The kid deserves a suspension. His mom may be in Iraq, I wonder where his dad is.....
Out on a limb here with sketchy information.
Looks like the school withheld the info about the teacher putting hands on the student without cause, and the teachers provocative actions.
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Dad's dead, mom is in a war zone. It's difficult to get to call home from a war zone - I knew a girl who, whenever her boyfriend called home from Iraq, dropped whatever they were doing to answer the call because of that. Chances for phone calls are few and far between, and really expensive.
It's all about discretion. Under those circumstances, if I were the teacher, I'd let him bring the cell phone into class, as long as it didn't disrupt (put it on vibrate, etc.) He was out on his lunch break, talking with a mother overseas fighting for our country in an unpopular war, causing no one any trouble. The teacher walks up and tries to take his phone from him? Hell no. That teacher is lucky she didn't get a punch in the face - because she deserves it.
It may have been the last call he ever gets from his Mom.
The school administration is out of line - this could have been handled quietly. Sounds like the teacher or principle are leftist jerk NEA members.
And the teacher sucks.
This is surprising. I live in Columbus, and this is a rabidly pro-military town with Ft. Benning and 3rd Brigade, 3rd ID here. I'm surprised at the teacher's reaction.