[Teflonic]

I can add more to that. No soldier in a combat zone needs to be hit with a major unresolvable family crisis back home that they cannot address, resolve, or even understand. Each soldier in the combat zone has a single duty to themselves ever hour of every day. They must maintain the highest state of readiness against all possible hostile threats because the lives of their soldiers and their own lives are dependent on that vigilance. This incredibly inept action on the part of the school administration has now given the mother just the kind of an unresolvable domestic issue that can drive a deployed parent crazy with worry. Studies show that in a combat situation a distracted soldier is less likely to respond in a timely manner to a perceived threat, and is thus far more likely to be seriously wounded or killed.

And to top it off, it is Mother's Day weekend and god forbid if something happens to his mom, it could have been his last chance to speak to her.

[elli1]

Thank you for adding that very valid perspective to this discussion. Which brings up yet another point and that is that teachers & The School Administration are in the business of introducing needless conflicts at home. The latest trip to the ring at my place has been over a school bond election. The teachers were hell bent on creating little moonies to traipse home and coerce parents into voting to increase their property taxes--already sky high in Wisconsin. It was nothing short of emotional blackmail. Some heated words were exchanged with my fourteen year old son after he whined about 'we're gonna' run out of supplies'; 'classes are gonna' be cut'; 'They said we won't have any extracurricular activities (OMG, the Tuesday evening Ski Club 80-mile round trip to the ski hill is gonna' be GONE; the Train Club won't have electricity to run the model trains...

I am not making this up.

The discussion ended with my waiting for him to commit his money to cover the property tax increase.

I'm still waiting.