That is outrageous!!
The poor kid has his mother risking her life for her country and her son is being treated like a criminal in the US for receiving a call from her while he was in school. That teacher and principal should be drop shipped in a desert for a year or 20.
Humanity never ceases to infuriate me!
http://www.cnn.com/2005/EDUCATION/05...raq/index.html
Military mom's call leads to son's suspension
Superintendent says student 'became very belligerent'
Friday, May 6, 2005 Posted: 11:34 PM EDT (0334 GMT)
(CNN) -- A Columbus, Georgia, high school student has been suspended for 10 days after he became defiant when a teacher interrupted a cell phone conversation with his mother, who is stationed in Iraq, a school district official said Friday.
"He became very belligerent and very threatening to her" when asked to turn over the phone, Phillips said.
The teen, whom Muscogee County School District Superintendent John Phillips Jr., wouldn't name, did not tell the teacher he was talking to his mother in Iraq.
The Associated Press identified him as Kevin Francois.
"I'm sure if she was aware of that, she would have acted much differently in dealing with the matter," Phillips said.
The student received the call from Sgt. 1st Class Monique Bates during a lunch break at Spencer High School.
"He said he was 17 years old and he would do what he wanted to do," Phillips told CNN-affiliate WTVM.
The teacher took him to the principal's office, where "he became very unruly and out of control," said Phillips. "It was escalating to a point where they were getting ready to call security."
The student lives with his guardian, an aunt, while his mother is deployed, the superintendent said. Both are to attend a meeting at the school Wednesday.
"We are endeavoring to have the young man readmitted after a three-day suspension, which was the first option for him. It was only after greater defiance and profanity that the suspension was extended," Phillips said.
The student knew it was against school policy to use a cell phone on school grounds, he added.
"We try to protect instructional time. We try to make sure the environment in the school is appropriate," Phillips said. "The young man knows what the rules and regulations are."
Phillips said the school, which is located near Fort Benning, often arranges for students to receive calls from parents who are deployed. More than 3,700 students in the district belong to military families.