Student suspended over sketch (A 10 year-old's drawing = "terroristic threat")

Observer-Reporter (Washington, PA) ^ | 12/30/2004 | John Richards

[Moose4]

Ah yes, schools and their "zero intelligence policies."

}:-)4

[ItsOurTimeNow]

On the other hand, if she had drawn a picture of two men kissing, she'd have been given a tolerance parade.

[Edgerunner]

And we trust our children's safety to morons like this???

[OldFriend]

How does a model student picture a classmate DEAD and buried?

[nina0113]

Head sticking out of a pile of dirt with x's for eyes?

[Cicero]

As you say, it's mean and nasty, picking on another little girl like that. But it's not terrorism. Discipline is called for, but let's give it the right name. This is bullying. Little boy bullies go around hitting each other. Little girl bullies undermine each other and try to make their enemies unpopular.

When I was a kid I preferred being bullied by boys. At least they were straightforward about it and you could hit them back.

[redheadtoo]

I was working as a substitute teacher one week. The regular teacher had been on an extended leave due to surgery but was due back the following week. I asked the students to draw her some pictures to show how happy they were to have her come back.

The girls drew pictures of rainbows, birds, and butterflies. The boys drew pictures of spiders and monsters. I tried to get the boys to draw "nice" pictures but to no avail.

I asked one boy why he wanted to give his teacher a picture of a monster and he gleefully said to me, "I want to scare her."

I guess this kid was a terrorist also. Either that or he was a normal little boy.

When will these fools stop vilifying the innocent actions of children?

[kingsurfer]

LOL!

I want a tolerance parade too!

[Gil4]

The one being really nasty was the friend. Her friend sent the original picture with another kid's name on the tombstone. The girl then drew another tombstone, put her friends name on it, and passed it back.
If there was a threat (give me a break - there wasn't, but for the sake of discussion...) IF there was a threat, it was made by the suspended girl's friend. The girl who got suspended might have even been diffusing a threat against a third party.

[FormerLib]

When I think about how many times I drew pictures of US fighter-bombers destroying my school while I was in the fourth grade...

Dang, they'd probably force-precribe some heavy-duty psychopharm stuff nowadays!

[Cicero]

You're right. I didn't catch that.

[Cobra64]

Insecure, authoritarian, jerks.

In prep school, we had a kid who had a voodoo doll of our biology teacher. The teacher thought it was pretty funny. And... the kid got all A's.

[OldFriend]

It's not bullying in the true sense of the word. It's evil thoughts that make no sense at all.

[teeman8r]

you didn't happen to go to school in new jersey did you?

cause your dreams almost came true...

t

[Squawk 8888]

I shudder to think of how they'd react if they caught a couple of kids playing "hangman".

[dighton]

Ilyankoff

Like, someone's head? That's a terroristic name.

[BlazingArizona]

Remember signing high school yearbooks? You would draw a target on that obligatory aerial view of the school on the first page and graffito it something like "Drop H-Bomb Here". Today, I suppose your next stop would not be graduation, but federal prison.

[unlearner]

Public schools are becoming a microcosm of what the NEA would like our society to become.