Posted on 05/06/2005 10:15:07 AM PDT by Responsibility1st
Keep abreast of the changes "brother" or "sister" as may be the fact.
Seriously thanks for the well thought out answer. I agree.
And considering the very real danger our soldiers are in every day, any conversation he has with her could very well end up being the last one ever. Don't lose sight of that.
I certainly agree that in most cases, and for most reasons, school officials should be obeyed. To do otherwise is asking for anarchy.
However, a high school student on his lunchbreak is not hurting a thing by talking to his mom in Iraq, and he should well know it.
The teacher should have known it as well, and probably did, but the drive to obey policy and proceedure, disregarding good common sense, is strong among the small minds of tyrants and sycophants.
We free people fight tyranny, whenever and wherever we find it. The "rule" of obeying authority would not have applied here, in my family. We are Americans; not Germans, or Russians.
Who is the Governor of Georgia?
When a teacher told him to hang up, he refused...
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Seems to me there was a teacher present.
The kid was on LUNCH HOUR, he didn't receive the call during class.
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I think the article says cell phone use is prohibited during school hours. Do we know whether lunch hour is included as part of the school hours?
This was such a public relations blunder! I wonder if their web site has crashed yet?
Lunch time is fun at my kid's school. If the weather is nice, they can eat inside or outside. Parents (or grandparents) are encouraged to join their kids. The kids all laugh and play. The lunch staff makes sure that the kids clean up their own trash, but if they help the principal pick up trash, then they get a cookie. After they are done eating, they get to play outside. It is very non-rigid.
This is an elementary school in California.
This may be the legal description of the incident, in which case the teacher is a criminal, and should be prosecuted and sued along with the school district. I wonder if the brave ACLU would like to tackle this one. This kid has no one to speak for him here.
Ideally he would not have been disrespectful, however, he is not of age, mature, or experienced, and the teacher IS, who is the more irresponsible in the creating of this incident?
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Huh?
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.
You are so right, when my son's unit got hit and we saw it on FNC and knew it was his unit we had to wait almost a week to hear he was OK, longest week of my life.
Baaaah Baaaah Baaa
Somebody forget to close the gate and let the sheep in?
Means sheeple...as in one who follows the rules rigidly, to the neglect of common sense. Here, have another glass of kool-aid.
And that is exactly how he should have asked. Power tripping school administrator's trump a parent's phone call from Iraq? Only in a fascist's dream world.
So it's ok to teach the child that he can do whatever he wants...break any rules...it's ok..
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.
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