OK HELLO: SOMEONE TELL ME WHAT IS WRONG WITH THIS PICTURE: http://www.cnn.com/2005/EDUCATION/05/06/call.suspension.ap/index.html
Ok, so the kid used profanity, whoopdeedo he's 17! And if you told me to get off the phone with my mother, you'd be facing a world of hurt. Parents, children, and spouses who have deployed overseas DON'T get to the phone that often. We didn't have the luxury of calling anytime we wanted. Oh, and not to forget the time difference, Iraq is 8 hours ahead of us! Ooooooo I am so mad right now!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
(PS, Thanks to Sam who alerted me to this injustice)
UPDATE: Someone who had time to research the numbers and email for this school, posted HERE
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4 comments:
WTF?
Oh, we CANNOT let this go by quietly! That teacher had some nerve interupting a kid on the phone with a parent under ANY circumstances.
COMMUNICATION WITH PARENTS TAKES PRIORITY!
And when his Mom's deployed? HELL NO!
This absolutely will NOT do.
grrrr.
-G
I have email addresses and a phone number for the school posted at my place.
-G
" "Kevin got defiant and disorderly," Parham said. "When a kid becomes out of control like that they can either be arrested or suspended for 10 days. Now being that his mother is in Iraq, we're not trying to cause her any undue hardship; he was suspended for 10 days." "
This also has me absolutely furious. Who is this pencil-necked teacher to interrupt any parent-child conversation, especially from A MOTHER DEPLOYED TO IRAQ!?
This suspension is an injustice not to be borne.
I understand the rationale for no calls during class, but this situation cries out for an exception to policy.
Who do we have killed to fix this?
Okay my opinion is that yes...the teacher had very poor judgment in ordering the kid off the phone. On the other hand, any kid that gets nasty - even if he is right - deserves to be suspended. Not suspended for the phone call, but suspended for the attitude. He said himself he often gets in trouble. If he'd had a clean act all along, he would have been much more likely to get his way this time!
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