These suggestions are good if all other avenues have been exhausted and if you don't mind rolling the dice with your reputation. The local news can make you look like a hero or a villain regardless of the rightness of your cause.
Oh yeah, and your kid might hate you afterward. -----Original Message----- From: Adam Churvis [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, February 22, 2008 2:29 PM To: CF-Community Subject: RE: while I am complaining This is just me, but I would: 1) Write down a complete timeline to the best of your knowledge, 2) Give the rundown to a television crew and ask them to show up for some good footage, and once they do, 3) Show up at the school and then call the police telling them that you are staying until you get your phone back and that you want them to show up right now, 4) Sit politely and quietly in the school office until the police arrive, and give them no reason to file charges against you, and make sure you're on videotape 5) File a report with a copy of your timeline when they get there, 6) Take it up the government line about their so-called authority to make policy decisions about legal private property (in other words, not guns, knives, or illegal drugs), 7) Engage a good attorney on commission and sue every person involved in not releasing your property to you, and the school system, both jointly and severally, and seek high punitive damages, 8) Settle out of court for whatever they offer you that results in a net gain in your pocket in excess of five figures, 9) Make sure as many people as possible are fired as a result of this. It doesn't matter who -- you're Pol Pot looking for a record-breaking body count -- just make it happen. No one fucks with you, Dana. No one. Make it known. Respectfully, Adam Phillip Churvis President Productivity Enhancement > -----Original Message----- > From: Dana [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, February 22, 2008 12:07 PM > To: CF-Community > Subject: while I am complaining > > My daughter started public school in January and got her cell phone > taken away last week for texting in class. I am not really ok with > that, but I can see their point. Where they lose me is that they > refuse to release the phone to me either. That's my phone, not her > phone, and I am paying for cell phone service so I can keep track of > my errant 15-yo. WTF. > > The principal is saying that they have a policy and that makes it ok. > > Methinks not. You do not just take people's property. You can restrict > their use on campus sure. But take the cell phone away? Just take it? > Not. > > If I am the first person to object to this then I *really worry about > public life in America. > > Dana > > > -- > Nothing can stand in the way of the power of millions of voices > calling for change - Barack Obama > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;160198600;22374440;w Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:254860 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
