Posted on 05/23/2014 5:45:59 PM PDT by moonshinner_09
A little boy is in trouble for a picture he drew as part of a school assignment.
Second grader Kody Smith was assigned to go outside, look at the clouds, and then use his imagination to draw what he saw.
"Draw a picture of what you see in the clouds from your imagination and that picture is a gun,” explained 8-year-old Kody.
Because it was a gun, the teacher at Talbott Elementary in Widefield called him into the office, and then filed a behavior report. His parents say that's too much.
“It hurts. It hurts that he was so scared for being penalized for his imagination,” said Kody’s father, Jeff Smith.
“He’s 8 years old. He was doing exactly what he was told to do for the assignment,” said Kody’s mother, Angel Rivers.
The report says Kody showed behavior that is disruptive to the entire learningcommunity. The parents were worried that this would be on his permanent school record. The Widefield School District says it will not be.
D-3 also sent us this statement: “Our primary responsibility as a school district is to ensure safety of all staff, students and community. We exercised an age-appropriate reaction to an incident. The student's education was never disrupted nor is this incident on the student's permanent record. Our response was in line with routine procedures focused on school safety.”
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Gee, Ida thunk edjumation would have been number one.
Dear Parent: this is a warning to get your child out of public school. Do it immediately!
“”Our response was in line with routine procedures focused on school safety.”””
And school safety was certainly jeopardized because of a drawing that resembled a gun.....
Can we please line up all these imbeciles with this train of thinking and let us see what real idiocy looks like? I want to see these people up close. They need to be made a spectacle for all the world to see.
“community” gets used a lot in this story.
I’m really starting to hate that word and how it’s used.
Oh...
Was that hate speech?
This S3it again? Elementary Schools across the land....STOP ASKING those trap door questions, and then being so ‘shocked’ when the kids answer you, or you will start being accused of entrapment. You really want to take your NO TOLERANCE that far?
“Dear Parent: this is a warning to get your child out of public school. Do it immediately!”
75% of wage earners are living paycheck to paycheck. Probably most parents both work. Yes, I agree with you. But for most people it’s not an option.
Alternatively, I suppose they could run for the school board, but I have no idea how much power that would have over nuts like this.
Off to re-education camp with him! How dare he mention, draw or even think about dastardly guns, guns he sees on display on almost every TV program and cartoon show available. How dare he.
You're sitting at your desk ... just you, a piece of paper and a pencil .... and you draw a picture AS DRECTED.
The teacher sees what you've done and separates you from everyone so the teacher can criticize you and your work ...
and an entire learning community (whatever THAT is) is disrupted ?
Would someone PLEASE teach the teachers to comprehend the English language and use it correctly.
Your honor, this child interfered with the daily routine of untold hundreds of people because of his drawing.
GET OUT OF THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS! how many damn times do we have to say it!?!? crap.
it’s called doing what’s best for our kid. important things are made priorities and lesser things are sacrificed and/or cutback.
Guns r Good, Liberals are Stoopid.
Git yur younguns outta the Stoopid school, pronto.
skeeedaddle!!!
This is emblematic on the war on boyhood. The ‘community’ has no desire to have boys that act like boys. They want eunuchs that act like little girls. If they have male thoughts, feelings or actions they will be humiliated, punished or drugged into submission.
Good thing it didn’t go off.
When I was a kid, we had toy guns, we played war, we watched “Combat” and “Twelve O’Clock High” and reenacted the shows during recess (!). We drew picutres of guns and air and tank battles for art class, and amazingly we had no casualties.
Institutionalized child abuse.
Seriously.
Why didn’t they just shoot the poor little bastard before he grows up to be a John Dillinger?
That’ll show those gun-drawing little squirts that the school is serious about safety.
How about one helluva lawsuit?
This is why liberals must oppose school choice. The little people mustn’t have the option of removing their children from government schools.
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