Posted on 12/15/2009 6:59:34 AM PST by VU4G10
A Taunton father is furious his eight-year-old son was sent home from school and required to undergo a psychological evaluation after he drew a stick-figure picture of Jesus Christ on the cross.
The father, who wants his name withheld to protect his son, told the Taunton Gazette he got a call earlier this month from the Maxham Elementary School.
They told him his son, a second-grader with special needs, had created a violent drawing.
It started when his teacher asked the class to sketch something that reminded them of Christmas.
The boy drew a crucified Jesus with X's covering his eyes to signify that he had died on the cross.
(Excerpt) Read more at wbztv.com ...
I have first hand experience with a special needs boy and God. These children as well as adults with special needs have a greater trust and understanding in God than most with a bounty of Christ's lessons on a daily basis.
Wow...that picture fills me with an urge to kill. I’m having a lot of trouble controlling it. /sarc
Continental United States.
Massachusetts.
Taunton, a small town in that state's southeastern quadrant whose main claim to fame, at least in the past, was it's rather large dog track. (Is that still there?)
Note WBZ-TV is channel 4 in Boston, it's CBS affiliate.
Anything else?
CA....
The message of the cross is foolish to those who are headed for destruction! But we who are being saved know it is the very power of God.
you nailed it...obviously NO pun intended..
It’s torture. We don’t torture anymore in this country.
Absolutely. Divinity working His ends through means man perceives as having no power.
"I tell you, if these were silent, the very stones would cry out."
I feel like I am trapped in a living nightmare, stuck in the old Soviet Union.
Make that “Marxham” Elementary School.
Anyone else find it ironic that this happened just 25 miles from Plymouth ?
I was going to ask if Jesus was holding an assault weapon, or perhaps a round of ammunition, maybe even just a fired blank round, or maybe he was just holding his dead fingers in the shape of a gun like kids on the school yard do. Any of those would get you tossed out under the bizzaro world “zero tolerance” policies that some schools have brought into force.
Anyone caught by the Puritans with a picture of Jesus would have been trouble with the civil authorities. (No pictures allowed at all, let alone pictures of Jesus. It would have been considered idolatry.
It’s just a sign of the times. No one is willing to make a decision on a local level, so things like this are left up to a mandate of some kind, generically written and designed to cover just about everything one can think of.
“Man, I would have been sent home a lot in todays schools. We drew nothing but battle scenes with bunkers, tanks, airplanes and lots of explosions. We took extra efforts to depict horrible and violent deaths by explosions. Wonder what today’s touchy feely types would have done to us. Remember, my cohort were the sons of WWII and Korean vets. One of our favorite past times was playing war.”
Same here. In fact, when we were ages 10-14, about a half dozen of us in the neighborhood would take our BB guns and pellet guns and go to the abandoned gravel plant to shoot whatever suited us. Birds, chipmunks, cans, bottles...whatever. Today, can you imagine what would happen if six kids with pellet guns and BB guns were walking through a residential neighborhood? They’d call out the swat team, take them into custody, brand them as “terrorists” and seek to try them in adult criminal court. Of course there would be a full plate of “psychological evaluations” all around. After all, that’s what the USSR did with “dissidents.”
Something similar happened to my younger brother in 98. He was about 8 at the time and on the playground at his public school he bragged to students that he had “a truckload of guns and missile launchers in his shed at home”. The police were called and they actually arrested him. The principle gave my parents the option of him staying in school but he would have to pass a psych eval. they tole him to get stuffed and then home schooled him.
tole=told
(good god is it too much to ask for an edit button??!)
This is outrageous. The teacher and anyone else involved needs to be thrown out of education.
You can see the school site at this sub-page. Apparently they removed the direct link but not the link within the district.
http://www.tauntonschools.org/Maxham.cfm?subpage=116738
If he drew Mohamed beheading a infidel he probably would have gotten extra credit.
I won’t argue with you assertion, but be reminded that the Plymouth colonists were not Puritans.
Yes. They were “Pilgrims” not “Puritans”. However, I don’t think they suffered “idols” either.
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