Posted on 08/22/2007 5:17:53 AM PDT by radar101
When I was in seventh or eighth grade back in the late 1950s, I wrote a whole paper for a history class on the development of Civil War hand guns and rifles. As I remember, I got a “B” in the days when there wasn’t any grade inflation. Now I’d probably be expelled for a year for having written a whole paper filled with “Columbine-style threats.” Disgusting, and this doesn’t even mention the kid’s free speech rights.
If I had been a student at a school with these sorts of idiotic rules, I would have been expelled by the 5th grade.
A day didn’t go by that I didn’t “doodle” guns in classes when I was bored, which was most of the time.
Mark
A “drawing of a gun” scares them............he, he, he........
In other news, 13 year old Achmed was given the school’s diversity award for his drawing of a dynamite-laden “jihad belt.”
Now that's scary. (Zero tolerance = zero intelligence)
Please let me fix this...
And that is why liberals and people like this have no business in education any position of authority.
Mark
In fact, if the school officials have official mailing addresses, we ought to all draw up little gun pictures and mail them to the administrators responsible for this idiocy.
Mark,
Scholarly work old chap. Most excellent.
That gun has windows and a unicycle wheel.
But even if it had looked liked an actual gun, and he had written “today we killed many Uzbeks” on the bottom, how would this be an suspension offense? Its a picture!
Our children are now in the frontline against the left’s anti-gun agenda: - one badly-drawn bus-pistol-unicycle at a time.
I like the way you think. I think it would be great if all the kids in the school, every single one, draws a gun on their assignment. Let the entire school be suspended for five days. Wouldn’t THAT be a hoot! No money for the school for an entire five days? Bet they’d change their tune real quickly.
If mere drawings of guns are seen as a threat, then how is this nation going to face REAL threats from bad guys with real weapons? Pretty scary to think we are becoming so wimpy.
If you turn the picture over, it almost looks more like a building. Maybe they kid should claim that as his defense.
I just drew a picture of a Mushroom Cloud, am I a Nuclear Power? If I give it to a friend do I violate the Non-Proliferation Treaty?
Too many of our REAL men are in Iraq to be here to fight this insanity. I guess it’s up to the rest of us.
I was thinking the same thing, but I was in school in the 60s. I don't remember drawing guns per se, but almost every day I drew jet planes bristling with guns. Some of them looked pretty cool too!
He loved to 'doodle'...and was a budding artist as well as an exemplary student making excellent grades and respectful of his teachers...
..but one day he too 'drew' a gun on his art paper...
..the teacher saw it, confiscated it and I got a phone call.
Thankfully, it was a 'come in and let's talk about this picture'....and nothing more.
I volunteered at the school and once a year when they allowed 'sidewalk art' with chalk, my son would get much notice because he drew amazingly well & usually had a Christian theme for his art display...
...so maybe the outcome would have been different if we hadn't been 'known'...
Don't know...
Sure. As long as you express what THEY believe. Otherwise.....you're a hater.
That parent needs to GET A LAWYER - NOW!!!!!!!!
The public scrool educrats probably made an error when they denied the aprent a copy of the drawing.
Yeah, the child was damaged by teh stupidity of the educrat.
Copious amounts of cash will help the healing process.
One may hope the jury verdict will include the entirity of the offending educrats’ assets, a large garnishment of all future earnings - including their pension payments, of course.
A one dimensional weapon could injure a dimensional school officials. Therefore, it is a dangerous weapon.
Same here. I wouldn’t have made it past 4th. Grade. When I was in 3rd, our teacher asked us what we wanted to be. I said I wanted to be an F-15 pilot (mid-70’s). She wasn’t phased at all. I grew up with and around a lot of veterans.
Then in 4th grade, my eyes went really nearsighted and stayed that way until getting lasik a couple of years ago. I’m too tall and big to have been one anyway.
School bored me and I drew up all kinds of small arms, armor, planes, ships, and whatnot. Today I would be public school enemy #1.
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