Student suspended over cell call from mom in Iraq

[BarTopDancer]

I think there are exceptions to every rule, and a phone call from a parent who is deployed into a war zone should certainly qualify. And to say that the mother was teaching a poor lesson that it was OK to break school rules as long as it is convienent... Maybe she didn't realize that her son was in school. There is a massive time/day change between there and here.

Should the kid be suspended for swearing or the disorderly conduct? Sure, if that breaks school rules. But these school rules that are so black and white... Life isn't black and white, it is shades of gray and that needs to be brought back into the school system or we're going to raise a generation of kids who only see things as black and white. Same thing with zero tolerance. Bringing Tylenol to school receives the same [school] punishment as bringing a weapon to school.