Mother’s call gets son in hot water
Kevin Francois gave up his lunch break to talk to his mother, but it ended up costing him the rest of the school year.
Francois, a junior at Spencer High School in Columbus, was suspended for disorderly conduct Wednesday after he was told to give up his cell phone at lunch while talking to his mother who is deployed in Iraq, he said.
That’s right. This kid stepped out during lunch to talk to his mother in Iraq and the school suspended him for the year over it. They say he got disorderly because apparently when the school decides to flagrantly infringe your rights and prevent contact with your overseas mother that you are supposed to smile and take it. This is ridiculous, the child shouldn’t have been confronted in the first place and at least SOME measure of compassion should be had for the fact that his mother is in a war zone. Was any shown? Of course not.
It’s time to flood this school with outrage if you have any support for our troops.
Spencer High School
4340 Victory Drive
Columbus, GA 31903
Phone: 706-685-7652
Fax: 706-685-7708
Principal: Olivia Rutledge - orutledge@mcsdga.net
Assitant Principals: Alfred Parham - aparham@mcsdga.net
Wendell Turner - wturner@mcsdga.net
UPDATE: Punishment has been reduced.
UPDATE2: School’s E-mail boxes are full… hit the phones people 
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The U of Illinois is having a conference titled Can Freedom of the Press Survive Media Consolidation? - A Conference Featuring Artists, Journalists, Media Executives, Policy Makers, Activists, and Scholars.
Here are some of the guests:
Rep. Bernie Sanders
Danny Goldberg of Air America
Amy Goodman of Democracy Now
There doesn’t appear to be anything close to representing a conservative that’s affiliated with this thing, but I don’t know all the names. I’m going to withhold judgement until I’m there to see how bad this is. But I will be there liveblogging the event if there is wireless that I can get on. If not, I’ll be near-time blogging.
Stay Tuned.
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This was particularly true in hosting the carnival on April 29th that I’ve had disappointing traffic according to statcounter. Then when I took a look at the web stats on the backend to see how many people were grabbing the feed I realized that instead the 688 page views that statcounter THOUGHT I got, it was really 10323. Then I realized the countercode for statcounter was only on the front page, none of the individual post pages, archives pages, and so on…
So yeah, oops.
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