Mother's call gets son in hot water

Columbus Ohio Ledger-Enquirer - via Drudge ^ | Fri, May. 06, 2005 | ANGELIQUE SOENARIE

[jmaroneps37]

Doesn't stuff like this just make you want to scream?

[NormsRevenge]

Zero Tolerance for service member's families.

Amazing. Stalin would be proud.

[ambrose]

Our school system is run by Marxists.

[clee1]

Yet another example of public school buffoonery.

If I had been the student, the charge would have been "assault and battery", not just disorderly conduct.

If I am going to get arrested, it is gonna be worth the hassle.

[Hildy]

This has already been posted and somebody actually said it was right for the kid to be suspended because he was out of control. Let me tell you something, if this happened to me, I'd get out of control as well. It's time for some common sense to be brought back into schools. This zero tolerance crap is destructive.

[Xenalyte]

"They are really allowed to have those cell phones so that after band or after chorus or after the debate and practices are over they have to coordinate with the parents," said Alfred Parham, assistant principal at Spencer. "They're not supposed to use them for conversating back and forth during school because if they were allowed to do that, they could be text messaging each other for test questions."

In the first place, children don't need cell phones to "coordinate with the parents." All they need do is tell their parents what time practice is over, and that information is always readily obtainable from the adult in charge of the activity. If extracurricular participants need cell phones, my generation would still be waiting to be picked up from band practice.

In the second place, conversating? Parents of students at Mr. Parham's school should be asking beaucoup questions about exactly in which cereal box his teaching certificate was found.

[Spktyr]

Gee, sounds like the idiot liberals that run the school implemented zero-tolerance and don't have any common sense. How about we all just enlighten them?

I'm looking for the school and school board phone numbers now, but if someone else has them, would you please post them?

[KidGlock]

It seems you have to be on staff to break the rules on school property.

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Principal apologizes for smoking at school ("I'm sorry" over intercom)

PROVIDENCE, R.I., March 25 (UPI) -- A Providence high school principal who suspended a student for posting a picture of her smoking on his Web site has apologized to the student body.

Eliazar Velasquez, 17, caught Elaine Almagno lighting up on the grounds of Central High School, a violation both of Rhode Island state law and school district policy, the Providence Journal reported. She ordered him to remove the photograph from his Web site and suspended him when he refused.

On Tuesday, the sophomore was offered reinstatement but only if he complied with the removal order. On Wednesday, Superintendent of Schools Melody Johnson went public, saying that Almagno, "a veteran administrator with a 25-year unblemished record," had made a mistake.

Johnson said that she ordered Central High officials to remove the suspension from Velasquez's record and that Almagno had apologized over the intercom for smoking on school grounds.

Velasquez told the newspaper that, when he returned to school, the vice principal advised him to find some better way of expressing disagreements and that Almagno did not speak to him at all.

[Xenalyte]

"My grades had been low, but I was bringing them up. My grades were coming back up. On one of my report cards I had like a 'F' in one of my classes, but I brought it back up to a low 'C.' This just brought me all the way down."

I'm guessing the low C wasn't achieved in his English class.

[NormsRevenge]

That other thread poster looks like a Troll to me.

[Responsibility1st]

I said it was right for the kid to get suspended. Talking to his mom had nothing to do with the suspension. The kid nearly went postal. He should have been arrested. Read the story and try not to get side-tracked by his mom being in Iraq.

[JIM O]

If I lived in Columbus I would not rest until every official involved was removed.

[JennysCool]

Zero Tolerance requires Zero Thought.

[StarCMC]

I think this school needs a good old fashioned FReeping!!

DBR - are you here?? We need a good old Dogpile going!

[Responsibility1st]

Why do you say that?

[theDentist]

The Teacher should have used a little common sense, and afterwards tell him no more such calls during those hours.

[ctlpdad]

I bet if he just lied and told the "administrators" his mom was a trannie & was giving him verbal instructions on fisting, he would have been alright.

[talosiv]

When confronted by the teacher, he should have said that he was negotiating for a lesbian/gay/bisexual/transgendered activist to come to the school to speak. Then he would have been left alone.

I can tell you from experience that in theater it can be sometimes very difficult and time consuming for a soldier to actually get to a phone and place a call overseas (not to mention expensive). I can understand why both mother and son would be upset.

Have you noticed that these over the top school PC crap is always directed at people associated with conservative views ?

-R

[Blueflag]

Xena -- I am presuming at your young age (relative to mine) that you don't have teenagers. Cell phones are really helpful for parents, not just the kids.

I have a wonderfully mature and responsible HS senior for whom we provide a cell phone. He likes it AND it makes our lives much nicer.

"need" might just reside more with the parents than the youngster.

Just my opinion.

p.s. nobody won in this event.

[JoeV1]

The school policy is a sound one. Cell phones have no business and are not necessary inside a school. If the student used profanity while dealing with a teacher or administrator then the suspension was in order.

I thought we on the right have been complaining of the lack of discipline within our schools? This kid needed to be pulled up short. You complainers here ought to make up your mind about where you stand on the issue.