This has to be the height of stupidity and insensitivity!

[Max]

Dear Members

I know this is 'off topic' but you just have to read the letter I found in one of the google groups I am a member of.
Its totally outrageous!, can you imagine that you father is in the army working on the front lines in a war, then
the school where his children are, do something like this...READ the letter below, you will be SHOCKED!
I think everyone should write to the school, and give them a piece of their minds (as I have done).

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Graham

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READ THIS!

Message: school suspends soldier's child for taking call dad's from Iraq
Published Today at 9:35 p.m. Parent Dish
by Roger Sinasohn
Apr 16th 2008 
Master Sgt. Morris Hill is serving his country in Iraq, a long way away from his beloved sons back in Texas. Luckily, these days, we have the means for people on opposite sides of the planet to talk to each other in real time, almost without regard to where they actually are. We have cell phones.

Unfortunately, the only time Hill could call his son Brandon was during the school day -- a time when students are generally forbidden from using their cell phones. It would seem, however, that this situation would count as extraordinary circumstances and an exception could be made, but administrators disagree. Brandon was suspended for taking the call.

"He called me during class, because that's the only time that he could," Brandon said. "I answered the call as I was walking out of class. The teacher followed me out and said, 'Oh what are you doing?' I said my dad was calling from Iraq, and I know he needs to talk to me." Brandon was sent to the office and given a two-day suspension.

The odd part is that the father had apparently made an arrangement in advance with the assistant principal to allow his sons to receive calls from him. "He had spoken with Mr. Fletcher," said Pat Hill, the boys' mother. "He thought there was an agreement understood that if he called either Joshua or Brandon at school, that everything was fine."

"If this would have been the last phone call from my husband, and he's in trouble for it and then has to deal with something happening to his dad that would be even harder," Mrs. Hill added. "These schools have to stop and realize, especially when you are in a military community, we support our soldiers, we support our troops. What about them when they are in Iraq trying to reach their family?"

Mrs. Hill is trying to get the suspension removed from her son's record, but the school says the matter is closed. Whether or not you support the United States' actions overseas, you've got to understand that the soldiers are doing their job and that they and their families are still people -- people who care very much about each other and have a need to stay in contact. It seems to me that the school could be more understanding on that point.Let Copras Cove high School know what Veterans and Patriotic Americans think about their ignorant "rules." And that we would like to see "the matter reopened" so that there is not a suspension on Brandon's school record! 
Copperas CoveHigh School
400 S. 25th Street
Copperas Cove, Tx, 76522
Phone: 254- 547-2534
Fax 254- 547-9870
Click below to E-mail
Dr. Carol Saxenian- Principal saxenianc at ccisd.com
Jimmy Shuck- Associate Principal jimmy at ccisd.com
Richard Fletcher- Assistant Principal fletcherr at ccisd.com
Genie Jhingoor- Assistant Principal jhingoorg at ccisd.com
Cynthia Kostroun- Assistant Principal kostrounc at ccisd.com
PLEASE PASS THIS ON TO ALL PATRIOTS! Call or E-Mail the above, Tell them to take the suspension OFF of Brandon Hill's records!Please take a fee minutes to contact these poor misguided educators.