From what I read -
The principal offered to allow mom to call the school directly and get the kid out of class if needed. That is more than reasonable and perhaps more than is needed.
If you want your kids swearing at principals and acting out - that's your deal. Not for me or mine. I would respect the school's policies, and I would demand that my family do the same. And any kid of mine swearing at a principal would have more to worry about when I got home than the school could even consider. Make book on that one.
We are PART of the law - the protectors and defenders of freedom. We are not above it, and we should not demand special priviliges. We SACRIFICE for the greater good - it's just part of the job.
Yes, after the negative publicity.
If you want your kids swearing at principals and acting out - that's your deal.
The kid already admitted he was partially at fault. I doubt he will be 'swearing at principals' again.
The school staff, on the other hand, has not admitted to its fault yet. Nevertheless, if the local media keeps the pressure, the teacher and the principal will come around and admit that they also over-reacted.
You do realize that mom may not get the chance to call until May 25 or something.
Forcing him off the phone was inexcusable.
Agreed, however you misconstrue my reference, I did not purport special privileges for military parents, I affirmed the authority of ANY parent over their children and that authority superceeds the (government) school.
I would note that the problems with cellphones and pagers in school grew out of the misuse of these items by students, and occasionally by parents, but the final authority is the parent, and if the parent's use doesn't rise to the level of abuse the child is protected, even then the responsibility is the parent's to face the consequences, not the child.
Let's take a poll: How many of you that support the school's actions are parents? How many of you that support the student are parents? Please let us know if you're the mom or the dad. I'm asking this because I think maybe the moms among us are very upset with the school for trying to interfere between a mom and her kid. My hypothesis is that more moms are siding with the student and his mom.
Yours is the voice that has been consistently right on this thread. What others appear to be arguing is that it is up to individual students to decide in their own eyes what constitutes good school policy and what constitutes bad school policy, and to act (or act out, as the case may be) accordingly. A recipe for chaos, and a sure formula for personal disaster, for any child who grows up believing in that way.
I wonder how the Army would have reacted if his mother had been told by her OIC or first sergeant to hang up the phone, and responded in the same way her son had.