She wanted to stay at home to listen for the phone, sure that Mr. Lydgate was going to call to say that he had convinced Mr. Besser to let her go to the choir concert. Or maybe Mr. Besser himself would call to lift her suspension altogether. How could he not listen to almost four hundred students and eight teachers? As well as practically half the state of Colorado? But every phone call was another reporter calling for another quote to enliven the continuing coverage of the story. Sierra didn’t want to talk to them anymore, but her father said it was good “to keep Tom Besser’s feet to the fire.” “Yes, I’m still doing all my homework so I can catch up if they let me go back to class,” she told the reporter for the Denver Post. “There’s a big choir trip I really don’t want to miss,” she told the Associated Press. A reporter from a newspaper she had never heard of asked her if she thought students should be allowed to bring weapons to school. “No, but no one should be expelled just for making an honest mistake.”
