There was a story on the news a little while ago about this young man who got suspended while using his cellphone in the school cafeteria.


here are the facts:

1)his father and grandparents are deceased and so he lives with his aunt& several cousins
who he's never seen so he's having to adjust after being an only child.


2)the person in question on the cellphone was his mother who's in iraq right now.


3)he wasn't in class taking a test or anything:he was in the cafeteria.


what is this world coming to?


first canines,now this.

Rules are rules.

avatarfunk said:

Why would it matter whether he was taking a test?




Sorry, I'm a little anti-cellphone these days.

analbolique said:

i hate to be a hardass, but i agree.

rules are rules

Some other facts you left out:

1. After refusing to end the phonecall, he started cussing out the teachers (using "profanity") and being belligerent as he was taken to the principal's office. This is the official reason for the 10-day suspension, NOT because he was on the phone.
[Edited 5/6/05 22:58pm]

AnotherLoverToo said:

Ahhhhh...it all comes out now!

althom said:

Leave it to me, Org Historian, to tell it all!!

It's phibited in the US? Hell we talk to our cellphones during classes over here!

avatarfunk said:

Well, this is bullshit. Actually, the district where I am working is considering allowing kids to carry cellphones since they have discontinue bussing students. So, you guys figure this mess out. Districts are getting more and more fucked up by the minute.

not only that....


here's the update:


the boy's original suspension was 10 days but after getting numerous phone calls about the atrocity of the schools' rules the principal only gave him 3 days out.

can you say "Police State"?

PeanaSoloLookOut said:

Did the principal receive those calls on his cell phone?

I bloody well hate when people bring cell phones to class and shite. That's just stupid. Not many people are important enough to have to be linked to the damn world 24/7... let alone school children.

GOD! The world is coming to an end, and faster than expected! The DEVIL is taking over!

Terrible. The other day a kid was talking on his cell phone while he was supposed to be working on a group project. It was a parent but my cooperating teacher, who doesn't strick me as very harsh, took the phone, started talking to the parent and told them he was in class....and then took the phone until class ended. That should be it...at the most, hold it for the rest of the day. Shit, some kids in 6th hour are listening to the music!

I understand the rules are rules people...(it's a little bit Stepford but OK) but I think it's ridiclious to extend the cell phone thing to lunch....let them have their time! Sounds more like prison than a school....but rules are rules....

AnotherLoverToo said:

....I didn't get that far....rules are...you know...

Hotlegs said:

So you will not beat them with a switch for this...

VinnyM27 said:

No, would rather beat U . That's it you're asking for it. .

MsLegs said:

So the kids "really want it", huh?

VinnyM27 said:

It seems to me that you really want it and am going to give it to you if you don't stop stalking me Vinny.
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