Posted on 05/02/2002 8:00:04 AM PDT by Dallas
Huh? You'd rather she ACT on the violence, than draw it, which is essentially writing it out?
This begs the question why she got the D.
It may well have been because she was using words that the teacher did not understand.
If they honestly thought she presented a danger to her teachers, I don't see how a 3-day suspension decreases the danger. If they didn't believe she was a danger, then why suspend her at all? If someone is angry, deal with the anger, don't just drive it underground.
OLDSMAR -- A young boy, identified only as "Calvin", was led away from his fifth-grade class today in handcuffs. His teacher, Miss Wormwood, a portly woman with curly hair and glasses looked on sadly as the young man, dressed in shorts and a striped shirt, screamed incoherent things like "you'll never make me talk, alien scum!" and "Spaceman Spiff will never submit to your torture!".
The teacher had found pictures of weapons that young Calvin had drawn, school officials had said. The pictures were said to be of incredibly violent content, some depicting an obvious cartoon of Calvin himself driving a tank through his own school, shooting the school full of holes with a fighter jet, or dropping nuclear bombs upon it.
The 11-year-old, who is not being killed because of his age, was not charged with a crime. The boy was taken to meet with his parents, counselors, and Inquisitors after classmates told school officials about the drawings.
"There were some drawings that were confiscated by the teacher," principal David Scheisskoph said. "The children were in no danger at all. It involved no real weapons."
The boy has received a discipline that Scheisskoph said he couldn't discuss. But he said the boy probably won't return for the rest of the year and probably would be moved to another school, after being brainwiped at the local Reeducation Facility.
The boy was handcuffed by campus police for his safety and not because the student was violent or out of control, said school district spokesman Ron Himmler, even though he kept threatening to "sic his pet tiger on them".
"That's normal procedure in a situation like this," Himmler said. "The primary concern was to make sure we get appropriate services for the sick, perverted, twisted, little child."
Depending on the severity of the threat, the outcome for the student can be a number of things ranging from disciplinary action by the school, such as suspension or expulsion, to being arrested or taken to a hospital under Florida's Baker Act, which allows for the involuntary commitment of people who threaten or attempt to hurt themselves or others. At the hospital, their brain is removed, placed in a large vat of Tide, and agitated for a period of up to 45 minutes, carefully wrung out, and placed back into their skull. Then they are carefully re-educated by playing several hundred hours of videotaped episodes of "Joanie Loves Chachi".
It is uncertain at this time which of these expedients will be used in the instance of young Calvin, who, when placed in the police vehicle, was still threatening to "disintegrate the entire disgusting, squirming lot of them" with his "mordo-death-ray".
The classmate who turned in the student after seeing his drawings, a girl named Susie Durkins, should be commended because that was the right thing to do, Scheisskoph said.
"All I can tell you is it was a threat...against students," he said. "Nobody in particular, but students in general."
Scheisskoph planned to send a letter home to parents Thursday letting them know generally what had happened, and what horrible things could happen to THEIR kids, should THEY draw pictures of guns.
"We just need to get it through kids' heads that there are certain things you don't say and there are certain things you don't draw," he said. "Or we'll kill them."
--- Simon Jester, for Pink Pistols News Services
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