[basil]

This is so stupid, one almost thinks it needs to be checked by Snopes because it is so off the wall that it couldn't possibly be true.

Unfortunately, I think it is. We have gone totally beserk~

[Guenevere]

They (schools) were on their way to this form of extreme reaction in the '90's when my son was in junior high school.

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...