I let my kid take pencils to school. But if he stabbed another kid in the eye with one I’d be a little pissed. See how that works?

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“As long as it doesn’t disrupt class (this kid didn’t) then there is absolutely nothing wrong with it.”

When the school discovered the child was speaking to a parent at the parents request, the matter should have been dropped except maybe for a lesson to the child on how he should properly handle such a situation.

If the parent becomes unreasonably disruptive with phone calls then the administrator should discuss this with the parent.

Common sense really isn’t all that difficult for most people. Unfortunately, I think it is one thing that can’t be taught.

I tell my students that they adults and if they get a call in class I will assume that it is very important.

I’ve never had a problem.

Occasionaly a phone will ring and someone will slip out of the room. Alomst invariably I get an email saying that a child was sick in daycare. Once someone’s wife went into labor.

“Oh really?

So children should be able to receive any call from their parents at any time while they are in school?

What about calls from siblings?

Calls from grandma and grandpa?

Oh, and should children be able to call their parents at any time while they (the children) are in school?

Is there a cut off at high school or do you think that college students should be able to receive calls from mom and dad at any time?”

Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes.

If the parents are ok with the kid having a cellphone at school then why the fuck should we care what you think? Or what anyone thinks? As long as it doesn’t disrupt class (this kid didn’t) then there is absolutely nothing wrong with it.

Crib girl in an Istanbul brothel sounds about right. Then she can be a real whore instead of an NEA whore.

Oh really? So children should be able to receive any call from their parents at any time while they are in school? What about calls from siblings? Calls from grandma and grandpa? I am just trying to figure out the limits of this rule.

Oh, and should children be able to call their parents at any time while they (the children) are in school?

Is there a cut off at high school or do you think that college students should be able to receive calls from mom and dad at any time?

Why?

I just hate phones, dont think everybody needs to be walking around and talking on one, and I don’t buy the BS argument that kids need them to be safe

His dad could send a letter.

Why does it matter that his father was in Iraq?

This reflexive “but his father is a soldier in Iraq” exceptionalism is silly. There’s no indication it was an emergency, just a routine call.

Some wag has been downvoting what would be considered ‘normal’ or good responses on all the posts for the last day or so.

To the anonymous wag, maybe you should find another blog to read the comments of.

The problem isn’t that no one can think anymore, its that they don’t have an incenitve to think.

Thinking is hard. Thinking is risky. Since there is no consequences for poor decisions, why should the school administrator think?

There can be no justice when any rules are followed without flexibility. I understand the no cell phone rule, but there must be circumstances where that can be violated. It was not his girlfriend or his drug dealer that was calling. Or his buddy to discuss drinking plans or “where you at.” It was his dad. In Iraq.

This is one reason I am for vouchers. If a school does something you don’t like, you have no economic recourse. You still have to pay property tax or whatever tax you pay to subsidize your local school. If you could have some way to remove that from them, then maybe they’d listen.