[ecomcon]

I wonder if Barbara's a lawyer.

[Phantom Lord]

From Todays Nealz Nuze...

TIME TO BAN PENCILS.

Just yesterday we were talking about the idiocy of zero-tolerance policies in government schools. A kid spends the night in jail because he leaves the tools from his landscaping business in the back of his pickup. The tools included a machete. One of the callers yesterday correctly pointed out that a simple pencil makes a very effective weapon. Why not ban them?

Well ... now it's happened. In Anthony, Florida. A 7-year-old has been charged with felony aggravated battery after he stabbed four elementary classmates with a pencil. He apparently became upset when he was asked to share his crayons.

I will bet you five bucks to a donut hole that this kid is on Ritalin or some similar drug.

Anyway --- clearly its time to ban pencils in classrooms.

[MarkWar]

>"That's my way of saying I'm angry," Becca said, adding she meant no harm to the teachers.

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The fact that this kid would blame a teacher for a bad grade is a clue -- at least -- that the kid has serously misplaced priorities. When I didn't study and screwed up on a test, I didn't fantasize about killing the teacher. I just made a note to study a little next time.

Mark W.

[SUSSA]

Any parent who dumps their child in a government school should expect this kind of thing. When they turn the child over to bureaucrats, they can't complain when the bureaucrats act like bureaucrats. If these parents were serious about educating their child, they would have her in a free market school or at home.

[Registered]

Why does this story remind me of an episode from "Spongebob Squarepants"?

[maximus@Nashville]

So, if a picture of someone with an arrow thru their heads equates to violence, does this mean that we will no longer see the SNL reruns with Steve Martin?

[PBRSTREETGANG]

Well students definitely shouldn't attempt to play the guessing game, hangman, at this school.

[maxwell]

Somebody's doodling the teacher? Huh?

[lowbridge]

Marcia Brady, you are hereby suspended for drawing this picture of Mrs. Denton and writing under it "Mrs. Denton: A hippopotamus"

[lowbridge]

Becca's parents, Philip and Barbara Johnson, denied the school's contention the drawings were "terrorist threats."

I wish school administrators never learned the word "terrorist". Now it just gets overused by them.

[Johnny Gage]

Ahh.. the grand difference between a Guv'mint Indoctrination Center and a private Christian school.

My son did this very same thing. Out of anger he drew some similar stick figures on some paper.

The difference? My son's teacher calls us by phone, in the evening, on her OWN time, to discuss this behavior
and find out if there is anything out of the ordinary going on in his life that would cause him to do this and
ask if there was anything she could do...

No suspensions, no police calls, no uproar, no articles in the local newspapers.

I have to ask..
How many of us, that are over the age of 35, drew stick figures, battles, bombers, tanks and stuff
and the teachers never blinked?????

TAKE YOUR KIDS OUT OF PUBLIC SCHOOLS.. NOW!

[Gaston]

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?

[citizen]

Wanna get out of class?

Just draw a cartoon.

[tcostell]

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.

[cynicalman]

"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.

[Askel5]

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?

[visagoth]

Is suspending her for three days supposed to reduce her anger toward her teachers?

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.

Its just sick that thoughts are more punishable than actions.