Originally posted by Pete D:
Originally posted by PackRat:
He wasn't in class so theres a good chance that this wasn't one of his teachers who would know him to be a prankster. He was outside of the school and wasn't disrupting anyways. When your calling from Iraq, you have to call when you get the chance. It's not like calling across town.
Where in the article did it say he was outside of school?
I don't blame the administration for what they did, his mom could have always called the office and got in touch with him that way.
This article that gives more information, information CNN didn't print.
http://www.ledger-enquirer.com/mld/ledgerenquirer/11575912.htm
Quote:
The incident happened when Francois received a call from his mother at 12:30 p.m., which he said was his lunch break. Francois said he went outside the school building to get a better reception when his mother called. A teacher who saw Francois on his phone told him to get off the phone. But he didn't.
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For Francois, he said he gets to hear from his mother once a month, and phone calls vary depending on when she can use the phone in Iraq. Francois said his mother calls as late as 1 a.m. to 3 a.m. and tries to catch him during hours he's awake. He said the phone call Wednesday was the first time she called him while he was at school.
His mother is on limited time calling from Iraq, as are a lot of soldiers, I doubt she's going to want to call the damn school first. She probably assumed, like any intelligent person out there might, that the school would understand the situation. I guess she hadn't planned on the stupidity of the way schools are run today.
Last edited by PackRat; 05/07/05 12:42 AM.
