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Girl Suspended in Doodle of Teacher (another deadly pencil attack)
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Posted on 05/02/2002 8:00:04 AM PDT by Dallas

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To: Quester
ZZZZZZZZZZZ.
21 posted on 05/02/2002 8:53:05 AM PDT by Jakarta ex-pat
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To: Quester
You're being sarcastic, right? Right?......Schools today have kids keep journals....she was just "journaling" her feelings.......they get what they ask for.
22 posted on 05/02/2002 9:00:03 AM PDT by goodnesswins
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To: goodnesswins
Schools today have kids keep journals

What for? Well, actually I know why, but what EXCUSE do they use to pry into young minds? What is the educational value of revealing one's private thoughts and moments?
23 posted on 05/02/2002 9:14:14 AM PDT by Nathan Jr.
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To: Dallas
In a country where it "depends on what the word is means" and the meanings of words are twisted everyday by the same PC crowd that run the public schools, do we need to take literly the doodlings of an 11 year old girl?

If the arrow had been drawn through the teachers heart instead of her head would that make everything all better?

24 posted on 05/02/2002 9:21:34 AM PDT by Gaston
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To: Phantom Lord
More to the point the parents shouldn't be teaching their child to draw her hate instead of speaking her hate.. That's like telling a kid it's ok to get so angry you punch a hole in the wall because it's better than knocking your teachers teeth out. Perhaps they should teach the kid that if she gets a D on a test she should blame herself and study harder!
25 posted on 05/02/2002 9:36:13 AM PDT by Almondjoy
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To: Dallas
Wanna get out of class?

Just draw a cartoon.

26 posted on 05/02/2002 9:37:52 AM PDT by citizen
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To: Registered
HAHA that show has some of the most ridiclous stuff on it. In any case I think it came more from an epsiode of Samarai Jack.
27 posted on 05/02/2002 9:38:32 AM PDT by Almondjoy
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To: Gaston
If the arrow had been drawn through the teachers heart instead of her head would that make everything all better?

Is there some difference between the two that I'm missing here?

28 posted on 05/02/2002 9:42:11 AM PDT by Quester
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To: Johnny Gage
That's a bunch of crap and you know it. I drew all kinds of battle stuff but I never would get angry and draw stick figures dying on the back of a Test! How stupid is this kid to deface a test anyways.. I blame the parents for teaching their kid to write out violence instead of acting on it. Kid should learn some manners and learn to study harder and blame herself for being dumb.
29 posted on 05/02/2002 9:42:22 AM PDT by Almondjoy
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To: maxwell
Somebody's doodling the teacher? Huh?

I'm not going to touch that one, but it was my first thought.

30 posted on 05/02/2002 9:44:13 AM PDT by Steve0113
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To: Steve0113; Slip18
Bwahaha...
31 posted on 05/02/2002 9:46:04 AM PDT by maxwell
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To: Almondjoy
How stupid is this kid to deface a test anyways

According to the article, the kid didn't turn the test back in to the teacher with the "threatening" picture on it. She didn't circulate it to her friends. It was spotted by another teacher in the girl's binder. What the kid does with her own returned test paper should be her business alone.
32 posted on 05/02/2002 9:52:56 AM PDT by Nathan Jr.
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To: Dallas
Becca's parents, Philip and Barbara Johnson, denied the school's contention the drawings were "terrorist threats."

Which means the school officials classified the drawing AS a terrorist threat! Every time I think teachers in public schools can't get any dumber than they are now, I see something like this. Thanks NEA.

33 posted on 05/02/2002 9:55:05 AM PDT by tcostell
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To: Quester
An arrow through a heart means love.
34 posted on 05/02/2002 9:59:14 AM PDT by Gaston
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To: Nathan Jr.
Agreed but nonetheless the blame should be brought to bear on her and her parents. The teacher wasn't sifting through her stuff.. happened to see it. Are they going overboard? Defiently. Are the parents out of their mind to teach their kid to draw violence instead of acting on it? Absoultely.
35 posted on 05/02/2002 10:14:02 AM PDT by Almondjoy
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To: Dallas
"That's my way of saying I'm angry," Becca said, adding she meant no harm to the teachers

Wait a minute. WHY is she taking out her anger on the teacher. Who was at fault for her getting a D on the test. If others in the class got A' B's & C's Duh!!! Maybe she should draw a picture of herself with an arrow in her head.

36 posted on 05/02/2002 10:20:28 AM PDT by cynicalman
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To: Almondjoy
"Agreed but nonetheless the blame should be brought to bear on her and her parents."

There is no blame.

37 posted on 05/02/2002 10:20:49 AM PDT by Jakarta ex-pat
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To: Phantom Lord
He apparently became upset when he was asked to share his crayons.

This happens to me att the time . . . I have my crayons arranged according to physical spectrum and I become VERY cross when they are returned to me in the wrong order. I no longer share them, and if back in a corner I will stab, with a pencil, anyone tries to use them!

38 posted on 05/02/2002 10:23:41 AM PDT by realpatriot71
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To: Nathan Jr.
They call it "journal" but it's for "writing" exercises, but they are encouraged to write about their "feelings." I saw 1st graders in action, and it continues now in my son's 2nd grade, although I'm not hearing the "feelings" aspect as much from his new teacher.
39 posted on 05/02/2002 10:53:25 AM PDT by goodnesswins
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To: Dallas
Another teacher spotted the doodle in the girl's binder Tuesday and reported it, prompting the three-day suspension.

When do they find the time for grading papers between all the conditioning they must be undergoing to become such Good Citizens?

40 posted on 05/02/2002 10:55:17 AM PDT by Askel5
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