No, I wouldn't. Seriously. Kids that age will say all sorts of things when you start questioning them, especially when they think they may be in trouble or that you want something more than what they're giving to you.
My guess is that the teacher took art therapy in college and is of the opinion that everything has a much deeper, dramatic meaning (which it doesn't). Sometimes, a cigar is just a cigar, as Freud once famously said.
FWIIW, cartoons use Xs in the eyes to portray death and knocked out. If you never saw kids using them before wouldn’t it be a bit disturbing to see them?
No, but I seriously question the upbringing of anyone who has ever made it to adulthood without knowing that Xs mean sleeping or dead in cartoons.
The parade of fools who overreact to every little thing kids do and demand psych evaluations for small children continues unabated. Let's skip consulting with mom and dad who could have easily told them that Jr. just got back from visiting a church, and send him in to have his head examined instead.
Zero tolerance for common sense. Zero tolerance for parental knowledge and wisdom. Zero tolerance for kids who don't knuckle under and fit the norm.
>>The parade of fools who overreact to every little thing kids do and demand psych evaluations for small children continues unabated. Let’s skip consulting with mom and dad who could have easily told them that Jr. just got back from visiting a church, and send him in to have his head examined instead.
Zero tolerance for common sense. Zero tolerance for parental knowledge and wisdom. Zero tolerance for kids who don’t knuckle under and fit the norm.<<
I agree wholeheartedly. My argument from the beginning has been that this was a reaction to the “death” part of the drawing (especially when the kid says it is him on the cross), not the Christian part.
I really don’t know if it was an overreaction or not. But at least the teacher was paying attention.
The reaction also may have perfectly appropriate, given information none of us are privy to.
What we can reasonably conclude is:
1) This wasn’t religion-bashing nor is it a Freedom of Speech issue.
2) This wasn’t racial (I think the Dad is setting up for a payday)
&100 agree my friend. It’s all bullsh*t. So what , the kid drew himself on a cross.I’d like to see some designer analyst go through some of my grammar school drawings, they would lock me away .That’s what little boys do , draw wierd stuff in school when they are bored.