Convenient partial truths: the teacher told boy to hang up, boy told the teacher who was on the phone, explaining the reason for refusal. Teacher then attempts to grab the phone from his hand. At that point –physical agression by the school, a legal assault– profanity should be expected. Be grateful he doesn’t prosecute the criminal charge.

IS said “[T]he school is bombarded with calls and emails threatening them”
Not true. Lots of condemnations, not one threat. More rhetorical garbage. Well-deserved criticism is not ‘threats’.

It’s correct that there were –in retrospect– many other options that would have settled this incident. The teacher could have asked to speak to, (verify) Kevin’s Mom; not assault him. The secretary could have let him keep the phone instead of taking it away. The school could have acknowleged the truth that it was Kevin’s mother (verified) instead of trying to claim otherwise. In this post, with plenty of time for retrospect, the whole truth still isn’t told.

No, what we have here is an administration that went lockstep in mindlessly enforcing an arbitrary rule. Shame on them and shame on ‘Informed Sources’. Hooray for the commonsense public’s common sense.

PS - So what about his GPA? You really want to go there? Is it just a insinuated slur, or does this school regularly break the rules for the (high GPA) teachers’ pets?