Two balancing stories…
1) A student is suspended when he refuses to hang-up his cell phone (which
aren’t supposed to be in use in his school) while on a call with his mom, a
soldier calling from Iraq.
“Kevin got defiant and disorderly,” Parham said. “When a kid becomes out of control like that they can either be arrested or suspended for 10 days. Now being that his mother is in Iraq, we’re not trying to cause her any undue hardship; he was suspended for 10 days.”
How thoughtful of you? Is this how we’re teaching kids to respond
appropriately to situations? A kid cusses and he can be arrested?
2) Andy Roddick loses match after he corrects umpire and turns a
double-fault into an ace, allowing his opponent to rally.
“I didn’t think it was anything extraordinary,” Roddick said. “The umpire would have done the same thing if he came down and looked. I just saved him the trip. He’s working hard up there.”
‘At a boy! So infrequently do we here such good news from our sports stars.
