Texas School Suspends Student for Answering Call in Class From Dad in Iraq

To whoever made this decision at Cove High School in Texas, The Lord of the Universe is calling you cold hearted bastards of epic proportions.

A Texas sergeant and his son recently found themselves separated not only by an eight-hour time difference, several bodies of water, hundreds of miles and a war, but by a high school official who suspended the boy for answering his dad's call during class.

Cove High School in Texas, where half the students have at least one parent deployed, justified the punishment against Brandon Hill by saying he had violated the no-cell-phone policy when he took the call from his father, who is serving in Iraq.

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