Posted on 10/12/2014 11:55:05 AM PDT by servo1969
An elementary school in Mobile, Alabama forced a 5-year-old student to sign a "safety contract" promising not to kill herself or anyone else because the girl allegedly pointed a crayon at another student and said, "pew pew."
The girl's mother was summoned to E.R. Dickson Elementary school and told that her daughter had drawn something that resembled a gun and pretended to shoot with the crayon. The mother told Local 15 News that while she waited in the lobby and without her consent, the school gave her daughter a questionnaire evaluating her for depression and suicidal thoughts, and finally forced her to sign a "Mobile County School Safety Contract" promising she wouldn't kill herself or others.
"While I was in the lobby waiting they had my 5-year-old sign a contract about suicide and homicide," the mother said. "This isn't right. She's 5 years old. Most of these words on here, she's never heard in her life."
The mother, who did not want to be identified, said her daughter was confused asking, "Mommy, daddy, what is suicide?" "I'm the one that should be able to talk to my child and not have someone else mention words like this in front of her at all," said the mother.
The news report points out that Alabama law prohibits minors from legally signing any documents. School officials did not respond to requests for explanations from Local 15 News.
The school requested the kindergartner meet with a psychiatrist. The mother disagrees and wants the incident immediately removed from her child's records.
Watch the Local 15 News report here.
Pew? Oh, she was talking about benches in a church.
Stone her to death!
/sarc
That bastard had a 64 color box...devastating.
Maybe the teacher head that the pen is mightier than the sword and she figured that a crayon is similar to a pen because it writes, therefore...
*Just like liberals to think that somebody with murder on their mind would reconsider for fear of breach of contract.*
It would have the same stopping power as a killer entering a Gun Free Zone....
Child abuse and brain-washing.
Get your kids out of public schools. Grandparents, you may have to help.
Stone her to death!
/sarc*
Since the State Religion of Atheism is the law in public schools, then they might invoke the nonexistent “separation of Church and state” notion.
“She has to write 100 times on the blackboard, I will kill nobody with a crayon.”
Sounds like the beginning of a “Simpsons” episode.
“The news report points out that Alabama law prohibits minors from legally signing any documents.”
Isn’t there also something about being forced to sign a contract not being a contract in that it is under duress, not that any one graduating from these schools could spell, let alone define the term.
Things are tougher than when I was a kid. I got into pencil fights with other boys in elementary school. Got sent to the principal's office after jabbing one in the arm during our fight. Nothing came of it, no punishment, just a warning, and me the other kid went back to being friends. Oh, I think it would be tougher to inflict damage in a crayon fight.
We let these people be responsible for our children’s education?
I like it.
The craziness that one is driven to from the fear of litigation.
Well, at least she knows what suicide is now.
She's really moved along the learning curve now. Usually it's not until the gloomy teenage years that they start thinking about things like that.
My, how education has advanced!
My children are long grown, but if this happened to me I would storm the Principal, storm the School Board, call the local TV stations and write letters to the newspaper Editor.
Try to gather as many other like minded people and SHAME the craziness of these so called ‘educators’.
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