This is the "violent" image they're complaining about :
Posted on 12/15/2009 10:01:02 AM PST by SeekAndFind
One eight-year-old in Taunton just learned a valuable lesson in political correctness, and a school district may wind up learning a little something about free speech, religious expression, and not asking questions to which one does not want to hear the answers. An elementary school student was asked to draw something that reminded him of Christmas. When he drew a picture of Jesus on a crucifix, the teacher and the administration recoiled in horror at the “violent image.” No, really:
An eight year old elementary school student in Taunton was sent home from school and required to undergo a psychological evaluation after drawing a stick figure picture of Jesus on the cross.
The second grader at Maxham Elementary school was told by this teacher that the drawing was violent. This was after the class was asked to sketch something that reminded them of Christmas. …
The father tells the “Taunton Gazette” because his son put Xs on the eyes of Jesus, the teacher thought it was violent.
But he drew Jesus with a smile! Doesn’t that count for anything?
It’s hard to imagine a more clueless, knee-jerk response than the one given by this school. First, Jesus on a crucifix has been a symbol of Christianity for two millenia. Since Christmas is in fact a Christian holiday, at least nominally, the crucifix in this drawing clearly came from Christian symbolism and not some latent threat of a reenactment of the last scenes of Spartacus from a second grader. How dense or deliberately obtuse must a teacher and administrators be not to understand the symbolism involved in this drawing?
The story does end on a happy note. The father of the student has been given permission for his child to attend another school in the district. They should have transferred the teacher and the administrators instead, preferably to quiet rooms with as little contact with children as possible. The real threat here is that the gross stupidity will infect the students.
To those that despise the cross, I imagine it is a violent image to them.
bet they would not have been shocked if he’d drawn a “depiction” of gitmo or abu ghraib detainees in bondage.
Sadly, in today’s schools a drawing of two men having “relations” would have probably gotten him an “A”.
OMG, my sister said the exact same thing- that its a symbol of domestic violence and will never be allowed in her house. I sh!t you not. I, on the other hand, view it as the ultimate symbol of love and faith.
Well, Jesus did indeed die violently; it is true. . .my pastor commented once that wearing a cross around one’s neck is kind of like wearing a tiny electric chair as jewelry.
Just when you think you have heard it all, you hear something like this. Is the world going crazy?
Its a shame for the parents, who spend the first 5 years raising their children, then have to send them out to be schooled by morons like this.
They should have fired the teacher and the administrator for being direct off spring of Hitler as are all left wing NAZI scum.
Christianity came about because of Jesus’s death.
Yes it was violent... in the words of J.I. Packer of Knowing God:
On the cross, God judged our sins in the person of his Son, and Jesus endured the retributive comeback of our wrongdoing. Look at the cross, therefore, and you see what form God’s judicial reaction to human sin will finally take. What form is that? In a word, withdrawal and deprivation of good. On the cross Jesus lost all the good that he had before, all sense of his Father’s presence and love, all sense of physical, mental and spiritual well-being, all enjoyment of God and of created things, all ease and solace of friendship, were taken from him, and in their place was nothing but loneliness, pain, a killing sense of human malice and callousness, and a horror of great spiritual darkness.
The physical pain, though great (for crucifixion remains the cruelest form of judicial execution that the world has ever known), was yet only a small part of the story; Jesus’ chief sufferings were mental and spiritual, and what was packed into less than four hundred minutes was an eternity of agony-agony such that each minute was an eternity in itself, as mental sufferers know that individual minutes can be.
I will not purchase anything from that state ever as it is a state of left wing anti-Americans.
Oh, I know. . .and the school is ridiculous (at best).
Praise God for that. Not even the gates of Hades will withstand the violence of the Cross.
“...wearing a cross around one’s neck is kind of like wearing a tiny electric chair as jewelry.”
Wow, that is a really interesting take on crusifixes that I never considered before. How true.
The father should teach his son that a nativity scene would have been more appropriate for Christmas. Granted, the cross was one reason for Christmas to begin with. This is just one more example of government school BS.
My father-in-law was required to suspend two of his students for playing ‘cops-n-robbers’ on the playground. Apparently, in Plaquemines Parish, you cannot make your fingers into a shape of a gun and say,”Bang, bang!”
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