Teen Suspended After Accepting Call From Father In Iraq [View All]

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The teen, Brandon Hill, has been suspended from school because his teacher said he violated his school's "no cell phone" policy when he accepted a call from his father, who is in Iraq.

Hill had no idea when his father would be able to call and had to keep the phone handy. Hill's mother, Patricia, said they thought they had cleared the call with Copperas Cove High School, but Hill was suspended for two days for breaking school policy.

"I took the call, I was walking outside the classroom, and the teacher followed me out. He was asking me what I was doing, and I told him that my Dad was calling from Iraq and I needed to talk to him," said Hill. "He stood there for about two minutes, and afterwards he went inside the classroom and he came back out and wrote me up and sent me to the office."

Hill's mother said the principal e-mailed his teachers to let them know he had permission to take calls from his father.

"My husband had an agreement with the assistant principal, Mr. Fletcher. He had spoken to him before he left, told him that both my sons, Brandon and Joshua, and if he called it was, you know, to accept the call, to let them have it," she said.

Hill's mother is now working to get the suspension removed from her son's record.

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