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Posted on 10/16/2013 5:47:32 AM PDT by servo1969
Yet another student has landed in trouble for having something that represents a weapon, but isn’t actually anything like a real weapon.
This time it’s an autistic middle school student in South Carolina who was suspended until further notice after he brought a cartoonish drawing of a bomb he drew to school, reports local NBC affiliate WYFF.
The student, 13-year-old Rhett Parham, showed his drawing to some older students at Hill Crest Middle School in Greenville. They reported it to school officials.
They boy said he got the idea to draw the bomb from a video game called Bomberman Hero. Parham likes to watch YouTube clips of the game on his home computer. The game involves a hero, Bomberman, who seeks to rescue a captured princess.
Parham explained that he used lined paper, a black marker and “pens and stuff” to draw the image. He noted that bombs “explode things.”
Parham labeled his image “bomb.”
“It’s a bomb, a picture bomb,” he said.
The boy’s mother, Amy Parham, called her son’s indefinite suspension ludicrous.
“He has autism. He has an official diagnosis. They know that he communicates differently. It’s obvious when you communicate with him that he doesn’t speak the same way and communicate and think the same way as typical children,” the frustrated mother said.
Parham told local CBS affiliate WSPA that her she doesn’t believe her son poses a threat of bomb violence. In any case, she observed, he’s autistic and not capable of constructing a real bomb.
In a statement obtained by WYFF, the school district defended its decision.
“This is one of the most difficult judgments a school official must make,” district spokesman Oby Lyles said. “This investigation began when threatening comments were made, resulting in the responsible removal of the student from the school to insure everyone’s safety while the incident and intent were assessed.”
Lyles added that the school’s response was “appropriate to the severity of the incident.”
It’s not clear what, if any, threatening comments Rhett Parham made.
He probably said KABOOM, which, of course, made the entire administrative staff wet their pants.
“The whole purpose of “Zero Tolerance” is so educators in positions of responsibility never have to take any responsibility. “
A male friend recently retired as a 5th grade teacher. He said, “Oh, my goodness. Kids played finger guns all the time, made bang noises and pretended to shoot each other. If we’d played by those rules I’d have sent every kid to the office for suspension. Ridiculous.”
Proving once again that school administrators are morons. No wonder our next generation is so screwed up that they will have to be wards of the state.
From another website:
Amy Parham said her son Rhett was suspended from Hillcrest Middle School, even though she says administrators conceded the drawing was non-violent in nature and posed no threat to students.
“They actually reiterated to me they knew he was non-violent,” Parham told WHNS-TV. “They knew he was not actually having a bomb, creating or making a bomb.”
“But that they could not go with out making an example of him and take some type of action because they were worried about their perception,” she continued. “Perception is actually the word he used. Perception is reality, and parents might think you have a bomb or [might be] violent.”
Notice also that they are training kids to turn in their classmates.
The whole purpose of “Zero Tolerance” is so educators in positions of responsibility never have to take any responsibility.”
Actually I have the exact opposite opinion. I blame the educators 100% for acting stupidly in this case.
Remember, zero tolerance problems keep people in authority positions from actually thinking and making a judgement.
Knowing them, no wonder they love zero tolerance policies: no thinking, no judgments.
I remember drawing that exact same picture dozens of times in school! It’s the quintessential bomb.
Should be better labeled as “zero intelligence” policy.
Drawing a picture is considered outrageous behavior, but indoctrinating kids into worshipping The One is perfectly OK.
Indoctrination: School Kids Taught to Worship Obama..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wAbHttDSRJc\
Obama youth regiment...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zt6JWzBqLWs
School kids forced to sing praise to The One...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7x-wpc2TpoM
Zero tolerance = zero common sense
Looks like a pretty good picture. Kid could have a future as a graphic artist. Rocky and Bulwinkle ride again! . . . What’s that? Oh, you punished him, crushed his spirit and his hopes and dreams? Oh, I see. Great job school administrators. Sleep well on that.
I feel for her, but this suspension would be sheer lunacy if her son didn't have autism, too.
God forbid some poor kid in art class doesn't draw an apple or a pumpkin just right.
Yeah well, our guys are being taught zero intolerance for violence. Those little muzzies are being taught to strap on bombs, and kill infidels......someday they will meet.
I supose now that Marine Corps Master Gunnery Sergeants will have to give up their rank insignia ?
(someone please post a photo of it)
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Rank insignia of a USMC Chief Warrant Officer, MOS 0306 (Infantry Weapons Officer). Worn on Marine BDUs.
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