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.
We used to draw mushroom clouds in elementary schools in the early 1960’s.
If I write, TTIUWP in an article about a 3rd grader, is the FBI going to visit me? I only mean to see the drawings.
I can only imagine what the artistic subjects we had as elementary students would garner in today’s screwels....
And not a single one of my classmates ever shot anyone else...
It's a spanking fantasy thing.
He can call himself headmaster if they put his head on a pike outside the door.
Steve Prahcharov, like nearly every other K-12 teacher in this nation was trained by godless Marxists in godless and Marxist run colleges and universities. This is true for government, charter, and private run schools.
Yet....Few conservatives and Christians recognize the problem, see the urgency, or are doing anything that is the least bit effective to SAVE THIS NATION.
The pictures fell well short of “awesome”.
Evidently Mr. Prahcharov has never had any contact with young boys and is not qualified to be head master.
(probably has an education degree)
That might elevate his mind /s
A Masters in School Administration, don’t you know!
Then build a few prototypes and go into production ASAP.
They were pretty awesome for an average 3rd grader.
"...I think that we really send our children the wrong message when we show, as adults, we’re so afraid of our shadow that an innocent picture that any eight-year-old might have drawn is cause for this kind of concern..."
THAT is the real concern. What a pathetic, pu$$ified charter school.
I drew so many Spitfires and Phantoms I am certain I could draw one now at the drop of a hat.
What?
The boy wrote “pointed stick” in his journal?
Why, that’s... that’s TERRIFYING!!
It is OBVIOUS that at the tender age of eight, this EVIL BOY is already a warped, dangerous, incurable, SOCIOPATH.
He must be kept AWAY from other children; and he must IMMEDIATELY be sent to a “Common Core” Approved re-education camp!!
This “Headmaster” (the pretentious title he gives himself) Steve Prahcharov demonstrates VERY poor judgement. It’s apparently HIS school so he’s certainly within his rights to have whatever students he wishes. I would never have one of my children or grandchildren attend a school whose “culture” is being set by someone such as Headmaster Prahcharov—I would expect that the odds of having a child molester or two on staff within such a culture would be higher than usual.
GAWD! You two were sick puppies!…... /s
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