"Pointed stick? Oh, oh, oh. We want to learn how to defend ourselves against pointed sticks, do we? Getting all high and mighty, eh? Fresh fruit not good enough for you eh? "
Posted on 11/04/2013 10:41:17 AM PST by chessplayer
Yet another student has landed in trouble for having something that represents a weapon, but isn’t actually anything remotely like a real weapon.
This time, an Arizona couple pulled their eight-year-old son out of a charter school last week after school officials threatened to expel the boy for his colorful drawings of a ninja, a soldier and a character from Star Wars. All three figures are clutching guns and knives.
Scottsdale Country Day’s principal Steve Prahcharov — who for some reason insists on calling himself the headmaster — called a meeting with Jeff to show him his third-grade son’s artwork and samples from a journal.
Prahcharov highlighted certain parts of the journal that he saw as dangerous. The phrases that deeply concerned Prahcharov include “PG-13 version” and “pointed stick.”
Jeff noted that his son’s journal also contained passages about how the boy wanted to save the planet. The third-grader wrote of his desire to deter bullets and prevent atomic warfare.
There was also an entry about fleeing from a killer zombie. As narrated by Jeff, an excerpt read: “I’d open the window, but, stand back quickly. Booby-trapped! Shoot the gadget — a rope gun — I’d swing across without getting hit.”
Prahcharov told Jeff that he worried about the safety of the other kids at the school in light of the drawings and these journal entries.
He should be . . . in the nautical definition of the term head.
If I was a parent involved with this school then I’d look beyond the principal’s critique of the drawings and do the following. I’d question everything that the school is teaching the students for possible socialist indoctrination.
When that didn't evoke the desired reaction, I made them even more graphic. I eventually parlayed it into two years in a special class with a guidance counselor who let me do special projects rather than attend a music class with a teacher I absolutely detested.
No, he is just a principal of a measly charter school.
I was worried for a minute when I saw Country Day in the name but it is just a lowly charter school with only a classroom per grade and no real staff to speak of.
My son goes to a REAL Country Day School. NAIS certified. Not this wannabe type of school. We don’t put up with knee jerk stuff.
Hell, the “Headmaster” doesn’t say where he went to college and doesn’t even have a PhD!
I would pull my kid from there in a heartbeat, but then again, he wouldn’t be there in the first place.
What a waste of education. It is amazing to me how people think they are getting something special when they wait in the rain for days to sign up for charter schools and then get the same old crap fed to public school kids.
This school is just another crap feeder.
At least the parents were smart enough to remove their son. More parents should do that if they can when their kids get caught up in this insanity.
And in the late 60's they ate them. :-)
Ping.
I used to draw flip animations in paperback books of cannons firing shells from one end of the page to the other. I suppose that lunatic headmaster would have me committed for life.
What about if he spoke in code, saying "pencil"?
I’ve been meaning to ask you - What have you got against Louisiana?
;-)
beer, breasts and bullets... that spells awesome
"Pointed stick? Oh, oh, oh. We want to learn how to defend ourselves against pointed sticks, do we? Getting all high and mighty, eh? Fresh fruit not good enough for you eh? "
I would worry about the safety of the other kids at the school in light of the fact that their "headmaster" is a sitzpinkling moron.
It needs wolves and a moon.
Shades of “No Time for Sergeants”, Toilet Salute!
In this case Head Master is two words, like Head Nurse.
Not like Head-nurse.
“Guilty while being normal heterosexual boy in public school.”
...and artillery, tanks, & machineguns; gunfighters; fanciful knife & gun designs...while having a Scout knife in our pockets...and much more.
The pictures fell well short of “awesome”.
What were you expecting from an eight-year-old? One of the Dutch Masters?
“We used to draw mushroom clouds in elementary schools in the early 1960’s.”
Ditto. Half the boy’s 3rd grade book covers in the late 60’s were decorated with hand drawn WWII battle scenes, dive bombers, tanks and mushroom clouds.
SHRUBBERY!!!!!
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