Update - Free Long Distance?
Apparently the school that issued a suspension to a student for talking to his mother serving in Iraq on a cell phone has seen the light (here):
Following hundreds of angry phone calls and e-mails, school officials in this Army base city have reduced a suspension imposed on a student who wouldn’t give up his cell phone while talking to his mom a sergeant on duty in Iraq.
The angry calls about the boy’s suspension got so bad at one point that secretaries had to take their phones off the hook, assistant principal Alfred Parham said.
Kevin Francois, a 17-year-old junior at Spencer High School, was suspended for 10 days for disorderly conduct Wednesday after a teacher told him to give up his cell phone outside the school during his lunch break and he refused, the teen said.
So he gets a three day rip and gets to go back to school today.
That’s probably more of a punishment then being suspended (going back to school).