Posted on 08/22/2007 12:48:50 PM PDT by redstates4ever
Chandler school officials have suspended a 13-year-old boy for sketching a picture that resembled a gun, saying it posed a threat to classmates.
But parents of the Payne Junior High School student said the drawing was a harmless doodle of a fake laser, and school officials overreacted.
"I just can't believe that there wasn't another way to resolve this," said Paula Mosteller, the boy's mother. "He's so upset. The school made him feel like he committed a crime. They are doing more damage than good."
The Mostellers said the drawing did not show blood, bullets, injuries, or target any human. They said it was just a drawing that resembled a gun.
But Payne Junior High administrators thought the sketch was enough of a threat and gave the boy a five-day suspension, later reduced to three days.
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Just for the record, Eve took the fruit, Adam was just the poor guy who got nagged into eating it by his know it all wife.
Good post.
“I hope he doesn’t draw a mushroom anytime soon!”
Especially a “mushroom cloud” which would get him reported to Homeland Security.
It is my personal experience and firm opinion, that lesbians do not have a sense of humor...............
This the ONLY time that I would wish to be an attorney, and a good one at that. I’d offer my services in the quest to totally screw, crucify, eviscorate, and bury each and every one of the public school idiots that perpetuated this farce. Education degrees...indeed. Perhaps they should study something a bit more complex...such as basket weaving.
Sooner or later, these kids are going to realize that the only way to be counterculture is to dress nice and be conservative.
Use the Lefties’ weapon against them. Sue the administrators personally and the school corporately for emotional distress caused by abuse of power. Even if the suit does not succeed, the threat of being sued and having to defend themselves might push the head-honchos to send their underlings to reeducation camps to learn how to use discretion when implmenting “zero tolerance”—zero tolerance without intelligent implementation becomes abusive. But, of course, that would cost the parents time and money. It’s a shame that even turning the Lefties’ weapon against them can only be done at great cost and expense to the victims.
For `show-and-tell’, Elk City (OK) Elementary school, I took an SKS rifle with fold-out chisel bayonet, and a Viet Cong flag that my father liberated somewhere around Kontum.
Everyone thought they were really cool. Today I suppose they’d whack my pee-pee . . . the `tards.
Gooberment skools are child abuse, lady. You've been handed a blessing in disguise. Run with it.
Yes.
That looks like a drawing of a skool building to me. He’s already damaged beyond repair. /s
When I was a kid, we had toy guns, and used to play war in the woods and fields. I can't imagine what the penalty for that would be today.
Every boy in my 5th grade class would have been suspended.(I’m 53)
Augmented by an open border policy.
I would stress that anyone this ill is highly unpredictable and a great deal of caution should be used when introducing them to dangerous objects such as motor vehicles, firearms or sharpened pencils.
NRA logo sticker on your lunch box - student banned from the school district.
Celebrate gay pride sticker - student is the honoree at award dinner.
Let’s see. Can they suspend me if I mail them a drawing of a gun and say, “Guns protect the freedom of idiots like you.”
Hmm
Payne Junior High School
26027 S. Higley Rd.
Gilbert, AZ 85242
Discretion and zero tolerance are mutually exclusive.
The schools tell the teachers/administrators that they won't back them up if they don't enforce zero tolerance and DO use their own discretion, so the teachers err on the "safe" side of being absolutely stupid.
If he had drawn a picture of Bush hanging at the end rope, he would have been advanced a grade or two.
A Socialist State begins with education.
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