[CNN] Student suspended for refusing to hang up on mother, calling from Iraq

No joke, I would have thrown a fit too. What a bunch of assholes.

 

They should send the loved ones of the teachers to Iraq and see how they react to their phone call, idiots.

 

Do people even have common sense anymore? Jeez.

 

I would do more than use profanity if somebody forced me to hang up on my mom while she was in Iraq.

 

The school administartors have failed at their job.

No need to have them arrested, we'll just suspend them w/o pay. No undue hardship, just 10 days...


...or we can send them to Iraq to apologize to the boy's mother.

 

Cell phones suck. These kids are morons. Good for the school.

 

The kid was probably a complete jerk when asked to hang up the phone... being nice to people will get you along way in the world. Too bad most kids don't get it and think because of their "special circumstances" the world owes them a break.

 

You cant be serious? Have you ever had anyone you know serve in the military?

 

Ever teach school?

 

When you are in a place where every phone call could be your last? The school authority were just brain dead on this.

 

Yeah, using the cellphone at lunchtime to take a call from your mother in Iraq is really hurting the teachers.

I wouldn't be surprised if the allegations of profanity are outright lies made up by the administrators once they realized what idiots they were.

 

I guarantee I would be a complete jerk if someone tried messing with me if a family member of mine called me while they were across the world DEFENDING OUR COUNTRY!!!! I'm not making this a pro war or anti war thread because your views on the war should have nothing to do with what happened. This may be the last time he may ever get to talk to his mother and they are making him hang up???? No way, I would have been irrate and would have thrown a complete temper tantrum. Good for that kid. There are exceptions to EVERY rule.

 

If I was the teacher and the call had come in the middle of the biggest exam of the year, I would have let him go outside and take his call. He could have taken all day long and I wouldnt have cared. That call is infinitely more important that your stupid little classroom and your stupid little rules. Dont act so high and mighty.

 

Well, good for you. Alls i'm sayin is if the kid may have tried a little explanation he may have gotten a different reaction from the teacher, something other than, "I don't have to hang up, it's my mom from Iraq." Also what we don't know is this kids background, that would play into the type of reaction the teacher gave I would think. And what is to stop every gossipy teenager from being on the phone with their whatever serving in Iraq, you know, you let one you gotta let them all.

Whatever the case, hope he enjoys the ten day suspension, he should be able to talk to momma alot over theat time.

 

Unless he is calling 911 I don't give a crap who he is calling. The rules are the rules. Cell phones are a big problem in schools these days. Too bad they can't be banned all together. Their mommies and daddies would start crying because of "emergencies", even though they can call the school like when we were in school. It's a joke.

MB, you don't know the first thing. Phones, and text messaging are a huge problem. Teaches are not the phone police.

 

There is a difference between enforcing the letter of the law and the spirit of the law.

This was enforcing the letter of the law.

I have a feeling the Meowgi is just looking for an argument.

 

Come on, Meowgi. If a student sits there and texts people all day long instead of listening to you in class, it's their loss! They fail! They can explain it to their parents, and you can explain it to the principal if need be. BUT JEEZ! It's a call from this kid's mom in Iraq and it's during lunch! LUNCH! What's the harm in that? Would you find a way to fail him out of lunch too?

 

The schools decision sucks...period.

And I am a teacher, and a parent.