Texas School Suspends Student for Answering Call in Class From Dad in Iraq Saturday , April 12, 2008
A Texas sergeant and his son recently found themselves separated not only by an eight-hour time difference, several bodies of water, hundreds of miles and a war, but by a high school official who suspended the boy for answering his dad's call during class.
Cove High School in Texas, where half the students have at least one parent deployed, justified the punishment against Brandon Hill by saying he had violated the no-cell-phone policy when he took the call from his father, who is serving in Iraq.
"I have been going through a lot of stress lately and my dad"™s like my best friend, so I go to him for everything," the sophomore told FOX News on Saturday.
"I needed to talk to him, so my mom got a hold of him on Yahoo and told him to call me, so I answered the phone call in class."
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I have to agree with Aught Six....while if I was an administrative official, I would not have suspended him (that seems a little extreme if he had not been in trouble before) you can't just have people answering cell phones in classes. I mean really, its easy to sit back and say that everything should be ok because his dad is in Iraq, but what happens when everyone wants to start talking to their parents in class, and from the sounds of it, they don't claim that he never gets to talk to him or anything. It sucks for the kid though
"It's not the school's job to support troops. Rules are rules. The kid should be suspended and be happy for it."
It is very easy for a guy who never served in the military to get on this forum and talk his trash about military fathers and their kids.You have absolutely no idea how it is to serve overseas when your troubled kid is at home in the US.At the same time you talk this trash you are expressing your great sympathy for a couple of "Muslims" in a WY prison. You really are a piece of work.
That kind of PC bull$hit chaps me to no end. Hope that all the military folks get together and vote the scumbag out of office next election time. We did that in Lawton about 15 years ago whenwevoted out an anti-military draft dodging coward who was mayor-Bob Shanklin.
It is very easy for a guy who never served in the military to get on this forum and talk his trash about military fathers and their kids.You have absolutely no idea how it is to serve overseas when your troubled kid is at home in the US.At the same time you talk this trash you are expressing your great sympathy for a couple of "Muslims" in a WY prison.You really are a piece of work.
I know, falcon. You've been in the military and have seen it all, so obviously you know what's best for this country. I'm sure just wearing the uniform makes an average American more than ready to lead the nation.
Hate to break it to you, but the military works for the country, not the other way around. There's no reason the kid shouldn't be able to talk to his dad. However, it's ridiculous to think that he doesn't have to deal with the consequences of breaking the rules while doing so.
When I was in high school, cell phones and pagers were expressly forbidden from school gounds under threat of expulsion. You could've been suspended just for using the school pay phone during school hours. They distract from the lessons and canthreatennot onlyacademic honesty, but school safety as well. There area bunch of punks in every school, regardless of how many kids' parents are serving in the military.
I can see both sides, but would have made an exception and let the kid leave the classroom to talk to dad. I can only imagine how much a son must miss his father who is not only away for months, maybe more than a year at a time, but who at the same time couldbe in harm's way on any given day.
I think the school admin should be booted. While the kid definitely expected the call,
it's obvious he did not know when it would come. Also, it's quite probable his father
could not 'cherry pick' the time of his call which was predicated on what he was doing
at the time.
When I went to school there were no cell phones. We cut class to drink beer in McCarron Park
I understand a school policy on cell phone use is aimed at kids texting, calling each other for BS, and
sending pics and such. This had nothing to do with this type of rule; it was a call from a family member
in harm's way, 5000 miles away.
An admin needs to be more than a monkey pushing a button for a desired
result. His inability to evaluate the nature of this 'offense' qualifies him as
the monkey and should result in some 'corrective action' against him........
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