Her mother was unhappy because Marid used the phone a lot so she put a passcode on it to lock her out. Although Marid couldn't call out, her friends could call her. She expected her mother to limit that, but she didn't. Instead, she waited to punish her until after the Christmas holidays. Marid was talking about returning to school, when her mother lowered the boom. ?Marid,? she said, ?I've decided that you are going to attend a different school.'...