http://www.cnn.com/2005/EDUCATION/05/06/call.suspension.ap/index.html

Someone should take these school administrators out and BITCH SLAP THEM!
What completely ignorant, arrogant little communist twits.
Matt

Student suspended over call from mom in Iraq
Friday, May 6, 2005 Posted: 12:54 PM EDT (1654 GMT)


COLUMBUS, Georgia (AP) -- A high school student was suspended for 10 days for
refusing to end a cell phone call with his mother, a soldier serving in Iraq,
school officials said.

The 10-day suspension was issued because Kevin Francois was "defiant and
disorderly" and was imposed in lieu of an arrest, Spencer High School assistant
principal Alfred Parham said.

The confrontation Wednesday began after the 17-year-old junior got a call at
lunchtime from his mother, Sgt. 1st Class Monique Bates, who left in January for
a one-year tour with the 203rd Forward Support Battalion.

Cell phones are allowed on campus but may not be used during school hours. When
a teacher told him to hang up, he refused. He said he told the teacher, "This is
my mom in Iraq. I'm not about to hang up on my mom."

Parham said the teen's suspension was based on his reaction to the teacher's
request. He said the teen used profanity when taken to the office.

"Kevin got defiant and disorderly," Parham said. "When a kid becomes out of
control like that they can either be arrested or suspended for 10 days. Now
being that his mother is in Iraq, we're not trying to cause her any undue
hardship; he was suspended for 10 days."





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