A Clarkelyn mom is up in arms after learning that her daughter had her cell phone taken away by her teacher last week.

Joy Meeks, 34, of Found Heights, Clarkelyn, filed a formal complaint Monday with the superintendent of Community School District 13. She motioned to have Eric Seale, a 7th grade math teacher at P.S. 169, indefinitely suspended from the classroom.

“He ain’t nobody’s daddy,” Meeks tells The Bluffington Roach. “And, he don’t pay no phone bills — do he? All right then.”

Seale says that on a daily basis he’s had to ask Meeks’ daughter to put her phone away during class. He said he’s tried by phone, email, and mail to speak with Meeks about her daughter’s behavior. But, she never responded.

“I’m both proud and pissed at the same time,” Seale tells BluffRo. “I’m proud because a parent actually took the initiative to stand up for a cause concerning her child’s education. I’m pissed because it’s probably the most ignorant cause she could have taken up.”

The district office is investigating the matter, and promises to bring justice to the Meeks family.

“We have protocol here at the department,” Viola Thomas, spokeswoman for the Macrapolis Department of Education, tells BluffRo. “We do not condone or champion alternative methods of discipline.”

It’s unlikely that Seale will lose his job, but he does face a lengthy suspension without pay.

“Maybe I really am the one who’s wrong here,” Seale says. “I was just trying to teach a class without being interrupted by World Star Hip-Hop fights and undecipherable text messages.”

The successful petition to get Seale disciplined has inspired Meeks to form a nonprofit organization for concerned public school parents. The organization will go by the name Mothers For Ignorance.

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