Why make the call?

Though I am a very practical person, every once in a while, I feel that a tilt at a windmill is necessary ( I included the link for those of you who are not familiar with Don Quixote).  I know that the windmill will remain in place, but what it represents, in this instance, does need to be challenged.  This week's windmill was a teacher who decided to punish 5 students by assigning them extra homework.  You guessed it, my kid was one of the 5.  He came home very, very upset.  It's not that the homework took so long -- just over 15 minutes -- it's the principle of a punitive assignment for select individuals based on the teacher's own conclusion that they must not have prepared as he wanted them to. I understood that my son was outraged at what he saw as an injustice. I also have a strong sense of justice and get very upset at abuses of power. Though I am not quixotic enough to believe that calling the school will result in getting the teacher to change his methods, and I certainly wasn't looking to get him fired, I still had to do it to register my protest. Yesterday I called my kid's school to speak to the principal. He wasn't in, so I left a message on his voice mail. He didn't call me back.
Did I accomplish anything at all? Yes,...

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