Student Suspended Over Call From Mom in Iraq

[vorticon]

Originally posted by YUCCA
Was his lunch hour right? I'd tell the teacher to *** off too.

i'd say okay, tell my mom to phone back in 2 minutes, walk outside and continue the call.


these sorts of stories make me realize just how incredibly lax the rules are where i am, teachers and students routinely do stuff that anywhere else would have them   suspended in a second.

[Gunslinger]

Originally posted by YUCCA
Was his lunch hour right? I'd tell the teacher to *** off too.

even during lunch hour the school is still responsible for the student.  

He should have been imediatly excused from class to talk to his mom.
The guy is 17 years old has'nt seen his mom in 4 months and Iraq is lit up worse then ever right now.

he should have asked politly and I bet they would have.  The school serves alot of Ft Benning students and probably deals with this quite often.

[Silat]

Originally posted by Gunslinger
even during lunch hour the school is still responsible for the student.  

 

he should have asked politly and I bet they would have.  The school serves alot of Ft Benning students and probably deals with this quite often.

If the news reports are correct and this was my kid, then she would never talk to a teacher that way again.

I support the school on this one. Parents want schools to have some discipline but as soon as they provide it the parents get upset.

[Pongo]

"we never kicked bobby out for talking to his mom on the phone, we kicked bobby out for the justified indignation he showed to the anal application of our stupid rule.
The same day we kicked out bobby for talking to his mom, 20 bullies whent unpunished and 200 cheated on school work that went un punished. "

[Gunslinger]

Originally posted by Pongo
"we never kicked bobby out for talking to his mom on the phone, we kicked bobby out for the justified indignation he showed to the anal application of our stupid rule.
The same day we kicked out bobby for talking to his mom, 20 bullies whent unpunished and 200 cheated on school work that went un punished. "

yea we should allow students to be offensive and threaten teachers even when they MIGHT be justified even though he could have asked and been polite about it and maybe he would have gotten his phone call during SCHOOL hours.

[Dowding]

Wait a minute, isn't this an example of the school actually enforcing discipline? Yet the 'hard-men' contingent here want special treatment...

I think some teachers and administrators need to be send to a war zone for educational purposes for, oh, say three months.

Some also might say, that teaching in some modern schools is akin to being in something approaching a warzone.

[Leslie]

The whole situation didn't have to happen in the first place.  The teacher did the right thing, though I woulda been pissed too at the time.

Can't the calls be routed through the office?




Les

[BUG_EAF322]

Why isn't mummy at home in the kitchen where she belongs.
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Where is daddy in afghanistan ??

[Ripsnort]

Originally posted by rpm
As I said in the other thread... Conservatives should be all in favor of the teacher and the punishment. Zero Tolerance was YOUR bright idea.

^^^
More lies coming from rpm...what a surprise!

Yet just as the early zero tolerance drug programs in the community were being phased out, the concept was beginning to catch on in the public schools. In late 1989 school districts in Orange County, California, and Louisville, Kentucky, promulgated zero tolerance policies that called for expulsion for possession of drugs or participation in gang-related activity. In New York, Donald Batista, superintendent of the Yonkers public schools, proposed a sweeping zero tolerance program as a way of taking action against students who caused school disruption. With its restricted school access, ban on hats, immediate suspension for any school disruption, and increased use of law enforcement, the program contained many of the elements that have come to characterize zero tolerance approaches in the past decade.

By 1993 zero tolerance policies were being adopted by school boards across the country, often broadened to include not only drugs and weapons but also tobacco-related offenses and school disruption. In 1994 the federal government stepped in to mandate the policy nationally when President Clinton signed the Gun-Free Schools Act into law.1 This law mandates an expulsion of one calendar year for possession of a weapon and referral of students who violate the law to the criminal or juvenile justice system. It also provides that the one-year expulsions may be modified by the "chief administrative officer" of each local school district on a case-by-case basis.

[Airhead]

"In 1994 the federal government stepped in to mandate the policy nationally when President Clinton signed the Gun-Free Schools Act into law.1 This law mandates an expulsion of one calendar year for possession of a weapon and referral of students who violate the law to the criminal or juvenile justice system."

And suspending kids and putting them into the criminal justice system for bringing a gun to school is a bad thing because......?