Posted on 05/06/2005 10:15:07 AM PDT by Responsibility1st
COLUMBUS, Ga. -- A high school student was suspended for 10 days for refusing to end a mobile phone call with his mother, a soldier serving in Iraq, school officials said. The 10-day suspension was issued because Kevin Francois was "defiant and disorderly" and was imposed in lieu of an arrest, Spencer High School assistant principal Alfred Parham said. The confrontation Wednesday began after the 17-year-old junior got a call at lunchtime from his mother, Sgt. 1st Class Monique Bates, who left in January for a one-year tour with the 203rd Forward Support Battalion. Mobile phones are allowed on campus but may not be used during school hours. When a teacher told him to hang up, he refused. He said he told the teacher, "This is my mom in Iraq. I'm not about to hang up on my mom." Parham said the teen's suspension was based on his reaction to the teacher's request. He said the teen used profanity when taken to the office. "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."
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They are running the asylum - and your keyboard.
YEs.
The school website is on Geocities, for crying out loud.
Well, I don't have children, and I'm glad...for I wouldn't want them to grow up to be as rude and malicious as you are.
Calm down, take a deep breath and post to me again when you're feeling better.
Read a little further on the thread and other thread (link post 48) and reevaluate.
Amen my child would get punished for not doing the right thing.
We can go home for lunch in elementary school and in high school.
I did that in elementary school and then drove to fast food or home in high school.
Forbidding this kid to talk on the phone during lunch was insane.
Sounds like you need your ass whipped for not being able to read, not that boy.
You are a sheep. You will fit in well here when all the old-timers are gone
I take things like this very seriously!
If this had happened in my tiny little town, I would have had a personal discussion with this teacher.
Substitute teachers are always available, if needed.
My child WOULD get his ass whipped - if he didn't take the call and fight everyone who tried to stop him!!!
Well, at least this time you didn't call me a Dip. Glad to see you're making progress. :)
And had the teacher not obeyed the "zero tolerance" rule - in other words used common sense - nobody would have been worse for wear.
You definitely won't make any progress if you can't understand this issue.
Having served 20 years with the U.S Army, those were exactly my thoughts on this issue.
Like I said, this teacher and I would have had a private discussion in the evening.
Mom should have known better than to call during school hours. Son should have known better than to get wild and swear at a school official.
Having been deployed I can say plainly that it is the responsibility of the service member to know the times back home and respect the rules. Any kid of mine would have had ME to worry about for popping off to the Principal, especially if he used profanity - suspension would have looked like vacation when I was done.
Supporting the troops does NOT mean putting up with poor behavior from family members of said troops. The school is under NO obligation to bend their rules just because Mom is calling from Iraq instead of WalMart. It's part of the job. Deal with it.
As to our fellow "FReepers" they are serious disappointments to the ORIGINAL spirit of FR.
Sweetie Mom doesn't get a choice and this child should have floored the teacher.
LOL! That's the way my dad raised me....
It seems to work.
No comment, but many of us understand exactly what you have just said.
Go with the flow and understand that FR is comprised of thousands of people, and not just the few that reply on a specific subject.
Most of us just watch, but rest assured, we read what people like you are saying.
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