[mnehring]

Before I knee jerk, I would like to see the drawing in comparison to the others. Was the grade based on content or quality?

[ElkGroveDan]

It was supposed to be a landscape. Looks like it to me.

[vpintheak]

NOBODY gets a zero in Art class unless you just do not do the work. Total and complete bias is gauranteed here. I am sure of it.

[AnalogReigns]

Good of you to be cautious, but I think we can be sure, given that his grade was zero.... (not a %60 ‘D’) it was based on content, not quality. I’ve never heard of even the most untalented-all-thumbs person in an art class getting less than a C, if they made any effort.

I also sincerely doubt Alliance Defense Fund (non-profit) attorneys would mess with a kid just unhappy with his grade...

[VOA]

Before I knee jerk, I would like to see the drawing in comparison to
the others. Was the grade based on content or quality

This got covered on FOX News this morning (4-1-08).
A couple of drawings by other students were shown...they'd made
good album covers for heavy-metal bands pretending to worship The Dark Lord.

Maybe there's more "rest of the story". But it sounds like the
teacher was ready to squelch any artistic reference to Christianity
so that NOBODY would be offended in the class.

[metmom]

That it was done should warrant a grade of some kind. If it was recognizable at all, it should have gotten more than a zero.

Art teachers sometimes grade on how the student does relative to their actual artistic ability, or effort put into the project, realizing that not everybody is an artist.

My daughters are really good in art and my son would starve in very short order.