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\n The way my local school system is set up, it is a \u201clock-down\u201d facility where the students are shuffled into new groupings each year within the grade level team. This is pretty effective in discouraging any \u201cmy best friend from Kindergarten\u201d type of long-term relationship. The students not only can\u2019t stay with their buddies, but now they aren\u2019t even allowed to ask a new friend for his\/her phone number.
\n For decades, our family has had \u201cFriday Is Friends Day\u201d, where the student gets permission to ride the bus home with my children, stay for pizza dinner and then, we drive the friend home. I have always phoned to talk to the new friend\u2019s parent(s) so they feel comfortable letting their child come to visit. It\u2019s called the \u201cmother\u2019s Network\u201d. The other day my son was asking several new friends for their phone numbers, in anticipation of Friday Is Friends Day. He was writing the names and numbers in his planner. The planner is one of the many supplies parents are required to purchase before the school year starts. I believe that makes it our son\u2019s personal property, not school property.
\n The teacher told him he could not do that; it was an issue of student\u2019s safety. She ripped the page out of his planner and Snapped: Use the phone book.
\n Aside from the fact that there are no phone books in braille; there are no phone books listing cell phone numbers or e-mail addresses.
\n What new low has our society fallen to when a teacher humiliates a student, demoralizing a child\u2019s attempt to be a good citizen by getting to know his fellow students a little better?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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