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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The administrator that suspended the student has a BRIGHT FUTURE in a Guiliani Administration...lol
That’s a lucky kid to know you. I don’t think the present generation cares what happened back then.
Check out the picture of my room on my profile page. Look at the artwork on the left side. You might recognize it.
Yep! Custer's Last Stand. I have an unfired Indian cartridge from the battlefield. No, it wasn't removed illegally. It was given to a friend by Don Ricky, park ranger, back in 1951. It was found on a ranch bordering the battlefield. My buddy gave it to me a couple years ago in recognition of my life-long interest in the battle. He spent a lot of time at the battlefield back in those days. Along with the cartridge is a notarized description of its discovery and provenance.
My office has mostly paintings by Charles Russell, O. C. Seltzer, Bev Doolittle, and a framed copy of Gen. Alfred Terry's orders to Custer, prior to Custer beginning his march down the Rosebud. I don’t think the present generation cares what happened back then.
Not only don't they care, they have little clue.
Amazing artifacts. You’re a lucky guy.
Can you tell me all about the cartridge? The 45-70’s shell cases of the troopers were made out of copper. I believe at the time the cartridges were internally primed, giving off the appearance of a rimfire. I have a couple of them but they didn’t come from any place of importance.
I used to draw fighers, bombers and tanks all the darn time when I was a kid, that was the cusp of ‘89-’90, then maybe 4 years after that. Never got in trouble.
Well I remember boys (up to HS at least) drawing page after page of planes, bombers, whatevers, bombing the h*ll out of each other, complete with flaming blowups, lines to indicate where the bullets/bombs were headed, men aiming guns at one another (sometimes with tragic pencilled in results). All kinds of gore and carnage were represented. Heck, besides the AF and Army, the Navy was represented as well, with subs and ships and other floaty items bombing each other into the hereafter.
As far as I know - and I still live in the same small area - not one of those boys ever did anything beyond doodle. It was a ‘boy thing’, just like the girls drew little houses with door perfectly squared in the middle and smoke coming out of the chimney. Good G*d, what would they make of all those boys I went to school with today????
When will the people rise up and say that we have gone far enough into this world of “liberal” mind control?
The world has gone insane. That’s all there is to it. Up is down, right is wrong. Words mean their opposites. Nonsense passes for reason, and rational thought is mocked.
Ok, I’m 41 and I remember just many guys having a decent sized pocket knife at all times. While they didn’t take it out and wave it around and never threatened a person with it, we all knew they had them. Most of these were the hunting and fishing guys. Good ol’ boys who wouldn’t be caught dead without their Buck knife.
Most of the same guys missed school the first day of deer season. A couple of my friends would call me that night if they’d gotten one. And I’m pretty sure I remember gun racks (WITH guns) in trucks in the student parking lot. Don’t ever remember a big deal about it other than the principal trying to enforce that ‘Deer season isn’t an excused absence!’
Good thing they suspended him too. If he had had a pair of scissors he could have cut the paper gun out and then really posed a threat to someone. /s
OMG, you must have been one of the boys who always sat next to me in elementary school!
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