Chandler (AZ) boy suspended for sketching gun

East Valley Tribune ^ | August 21, 2007 | David Biscobing

[Jeffrey_D.]

Here’s my e-mail.......(kudos to Al Gator)

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Mrs. Karen Martin,

After reading the news,
Chandler (AZ) boy suspended for sketching gun
East Valley Tribune ^ | August 21, 2007 | David Biscobing

I too, finally understand the rationalization and thought process that must have gone on in Salem,Massachusetts in 1692.

Thank-you you for keeping us all safe from little boys and their evil pencils.

Jeff Diemer

[Bigg Red]

If you turn the picture over, it almost looks more like a building. Maybe they kid should claim that as his defense.

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Granted, I have little experience with guns, but my thought when I saw his sketch was that it looked like an airline boarding ramp.

Such idiots!

[DogandPonyShow]

Here is an email addy for the Chandler School District of which Payne Junior High is a part.

This is the “Community Relations” email:

locke.terry@chandler.k12.az.us

[Bigg Red]

We did get yelled at for falling out of our desks after ‘dying’.

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As the mother of 4 now grown sons, I truly LOL at that one.

[Jeffrey_D.]

RE: “Clearly, they have held the picture in the wrong orientation.

If the picture is shown in the correct orientation (rotated 90 degrees to the left from what is shown in the article), then it will become clear to you as well.”

I tried that....it’s a slot machine!

[Diamond]

If the picture is shown in the correct orientation (rotated 90 degrees to the left from what is shown in the article), then it will become clear to you as well.

Its a picture of a government-provided low-cost housing project. An environmentally-friendly carbon dioxide scrubber has been placed on top of the 5 story building, next to a rooftop garden of small trees. What is (incorrectly) seen as a trigger, is actually a multi-level atrium located above a wing to the housing project where a homosexual outreach center resides. The device next to the atrium is a satellite dish so that the residents can receive real news from real news sources, such as Keith Olberman, Bill Moyers and Howard Dean.

LOL!

Cordially,

[Political Junkie Too]

“I just can’t believe that there wasn’t another way to resolve this,” said Paula Mosteller, the boy’s mother.

Maybe the other kids could have drawn pictures of Kevlar vests, like the UK schoolchildren wear.

-PJ

[NativeSon]

I’d be going to school shackled, wearing an orange jump suit, giving presentations on how to brew gin from apple cores if I was born 15 years later than I was.

When I was really young, for "show and tell" I brought in things like a dummy grenade and a muskett.

Later in high school (late 80's) I presented "What to do when the Heimlich Maneuve fails" - it invloved a steak knife, fake blood, booze, Bic pen and a friend with a sense of humor.

Since I went to Frankford High in Philly, my next presentation was "Her Water Broke, What Now!?"

For the record the kid is a cr@ppy artist no matter how you rotate that picture...

[American_Centurion]

I would have dropped out of school at my first opportunity if I had teachers like these.

[BearCub]

Chandler district spokesman Terry Locke said the school is not allowed to discuss students’ discipline records. However, he said the sketch was “absolutely considered a threat,” and threatening words or pictures are punished.

The fact that wussified idiots like this consider it a threat doesn't make it one. 'Threat' has a definition & this kid's picture ain't one.

[BearCub]

In fact, if the school officials have official mailing addresses, we ought to all draw up little gun pictures and mail them to the administrators responsible for this idiocy.

I couldn't find snail mail addresses, but e-mail and phone numbers are here.

[BearCub]

That gun has windows and a unicycle wheel.

No silly, that's the government mandated trigger lock, which makes the gun a non-threat.

In all seriousness... If this were my kid I would counsel him to lie and say the administrators turned the picture the wrong way - that is was actually a skyscaper with a covered freight lift on the right side. I'd sue the living crap out of the administrators and the district. Not to win - just to cost them time, trouble and money.

[longtermmemmory]

Speilberg walkie talkie Nazis.

[Manic_Episode]

Here's mine:

Dear Mrs. Martin,

I am appalled by your handling of this case, or that it even is a case. As a parent I can assure you that if this were my son he would never set foot in your so called school ever again. Your judgment is so seriously warped that you are unable to distinguish between the sharks and the guppies. For you to leap from a sketch to Columbine is a gross injustice and just plain ignorant. If you had any sense of decency you would be ashamed, but I doubt you do or are. Thankfully those in charge of my children don't worship Ophra or Rosie. I wouldn't trust you with a paper route. Get a clue, you failed.

Sincerely, JH

[Myrddin]

The administrators should get a suspension...5 days without pay for being incredibly stupid. A sketch of a gun is not a threat to anybody. A sketch of the tactical plan to attack the school building would be a different story.

[polymuser]

If he had sketched porn, they’d laud him as a young artist...

Or if he'd sketched a certain political target.

[Charlespg]

In fact, if the school officials have official mailing addresses, we ought to all draw up little gun pictures and mail them to the administrators responsible for this idiocy.

LOL that was my idea lets go for it

[MEGoody]

Gee, what a surprise. An 8th grade boy sketched a picture of a gun (or laser or whatever the heck that is supposed to be).

These loons at the schools need to chill out and get a clue.

[DCPatriot]

I wudda been expelled.

LOL! And flunked spelling in the process! ;^)

[stinkerpot65]

Government schools are evil.