Posted on 04/02/2008 5:39:37 AM PDT by NRA1995
A Tomah High School student has filed a federal lawsuit alleging his art teacher censored his drawing because it featured a cross and a biblical reference. According to the lawsuit, the student's art teacher asked his class in February to draw landscapes. The student, a senior identified in the lawsuit by the initials A.P., added a cross and the words "John 3:16 A sign of love" in his drawing.
His teacher, Julie Millin, asked him to remove the reference to the Bible, saying students were making remarks about it. He refused, and she gave him a zero on the project.
Millin showed the student a policy for the class that prohibited any violence, blood, sexual connotations or religious beliefs in artwork. The lawsuit claims Millin told the boy he had signed away his constitutional rights when he signed the policy at the beginning of the semester.
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Absolutely.
“Happy, smiling demons of love”
Hmmm, FR is channelling the late Bob Ross this morning
You’d think that a kid who’d figured out perspective and shading could now focus on lettering and handwriting.
Drawing skills at level: B+
Handwriting: D-
The shading is good. In my opinion, the perspective and composition are clunky, especially the mountain peaks. And I agree that, if he couldn’t write letters all the same size, at least, he should have used a stencil!
As I said, it’s not a landscape drawing. It’s a high-school-kid-average symbolic drawing, showing okay technique in some parts. The “zero” grade is silly, though - bound to attract unwelcome attention. Why not just give him a C?
Suing? There’s got to be a better way.
The kid should have asked the teacher to suggest installing foot baths in the bathrooms instead. The school administration would have been fine with that.
“The boy tore the policy up in front of Millin, who kicked him out of class.”
- Tear it up!
Not a tough guy, a tough gal
Click on the link at post #43 to see what the teacher did allow as suitable subject matter.
Post #44.
I saw them. However, I doubt those drawings were submitted for the “landscape” assignment. Presumably they’re shown to demonstrate that the teacher’s definition of “religious” or “violent” content is quirky, to say the least.
Are those drawings of the demons controlling this teacher?
It's about time that Christians started using the courts to expose the Marxist indoctrination plots for what they are. This is a trend that I hope continues. I will pray for continued strength for this boy and his family.
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