2nd-grader suspended for drawing of gun (merged threads)

[strat81]

You get three guesses where this happened! (Hint: East coast)

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071020/ap_on_re_us/gun_drawing_suspension

DENNIS TOWNSHIP, N.J. - A second-grader's drawing of a stick figure shooting a gun earned him a one-day school suspension.
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Kyle Walker, 7, was suspended last week for violating Dennis Township Primary School's zero-tolerance policy on guns, the boy's mother, Shirley McDevitt, told The Press of Atlantic City.

Kyle gave the picture to another child on the school bus, and that child's parents complained about it to school officials, McDevitt said. Her son told her the drawing was of a water gun, she said.

A photocopy of the picture provided by McDevitt showed two stick figures with one pointing a crude-looking gun at the other, the newspaper said. What appeared to be the word "me" was written above the shooter, with another name scribbled above the other figure.

School officials declined to comment Friday. A message left at the superintendent's office Saturday was not returned.

Kyle drew other pictures, including a skateboarder, King Tut, a ghost, a tree and a Cyclops, the newspaper reported.

I weep for the future.

 

[MIL-DOT]

right now i'm drawing a picture of an atom bomb, i hear the black helicopters coming now. i'll be lucky to get less than 20 years.
yeah, i'm weeping too.:banghead:

 

[Nolo]

This is madness. Just madness. Something HAS to be done.

 

[boredelmo]

Albeit the punishment was a bit harsh, the depiction of someone shooting another is something of concern.

I certainly would discipline my little brother for something like that.

If your son came home and said " Hey daddy look at my drawing of me shooting "Name"! i don't like him."

If it was simply a picture of a gun, then that would be nothing. I used to draw guns left and right as a kid and even well throughout middle school.

 

[Geno]

Don't worry Mil Dot, we'll protect you with our pictures of machine guns!!!! We drew thousands of rounds of ammo too!

If just "drawing" is such a crime, my brother, cousins and I should have all gone to prison for playing cops and robbers when we were 4 to 5 years old. My brother always wanted to play "Matt" and said I had to be "Festis".

Doc2005

 

[Nolo]

I just drew a picture of a PDW in school the other day. Now I wonder whether I'll be arrested again. And this time, I won't get it stricken from my record when I'm 18...

 

[Bilt4Comfort]

You should never "draw" your gun unless you believe your life to be in danger.

 

[elrod]

MIL-DOT

right now i'm drawing a picture of an atom bomb, i hear the black helicopters coming now.

Quick, draw some AntiAircraft batteries for the choppers! May as well do it right.

On a serious note, it will really PO you when you realize our tax money is paying for this foolishness!

 

[armoredman]

I was called to my son's school yesterday, on a non-related issue, and I was shown the Dicsiplinary Write Up he had JUST recieved an hour earlier, for making a "gun" out of his finger and saying "bang". I don't know if that dangerous weapon was pointed at someone, (he is a child, doen't wash his hands as often as he shoukld have, could be a disease under those fingernails), but I did tell the principalthat was ridiculous.

 

[AlaskaErik]

This is what happens when people send their children to the local socialist indoctrination center. If I were raising a child today there is no way I would ever put them in the morass known as the public school system. I would home school and you'd better believe the curriculum would include lessons on firearms safety as well as range time.

 

[plexreticle]

Public schools for the lose.

The town needs to address this foolishness in the next election.

 

[sm]

*sigh*

If they were to let the kids have BB Guns in school, and have some lessons and training...


Well, next up is kids being reprimanded for drawing cars. I mean I shot BB Guns in school and drew Race cars, Demolition Derby Cars and the like.

Better reprimand kids for drawing Soda Pop, Candy, and Honey Buns, I mean these things cause obesity.

Vending Machine drawing would be the Death Penalty - wait, I forget, can't have that, just a life sentence instead.


<raises hand>

Just what the hell are kids supposed to do in school now-a-days?

Be good little boys and girls and pay attention to the INDOCTRINATION

I was afraid of that...

 

[.cheese.]

Just what the hell are kids supposed to do in school now-a-days?

I think they're learning about global warming... saving dolphins.... and eating pudding.

I'm all for the pudding... but not so sure about the others.

 

[Doggy Daddy]

.cheese.

I think they're learning about global warming... saving dolphins.... and eating pudding.

I'm all for the pudding... but not so sure about the others.

But, how can you have any pudding if you don't eat your meat?

 

[The Deer Hunter]

I would think that the more they know and the less they are shut out of gun knowledge the less likely they are to accidentally shoot someone else...

I thought the less ignorant people(plural btw) were, the more civil they were.

Maybe if we just shut kids completely out of drinking, sex, drugs and music with bad words in it will breed a country of law abiding, non risk taking individuals.

Then again during my early childhood(I'm young enough to remember...) I can recall wanting to watch those adult shows that are considered inappropriate for young people just for the fact that the more they don't want me to watch it-the better it was.

 

[cambeul41]

When I was young, we never played "Cops and Robbers" or "Cowboys and Indians."The game we played was simlpy called "Guns."

Sometimes we chose sides, sometime it was officers' kids versus enlistedmen's kids.

Perhaps we were all delinquent and in prison today.

 

[sm]

Hey Big Brother!

But, how can you have any pudding if you don't eat your meat?

We don't need no education
we don't need no thought control
No dark sarcasm in the classroom
Teachers leave the kids alone
Hey teacher leaves the kids alone
All in all its just another brick in the wall
All in all you're just another brick in the wall

Another Brick In The Wall (Part 2) - Pink Floyd

 

[Doggy Daddy]

sm

We don't need no education
we don't need no thought control

Can't get much more on-topic than that, can ya?

 

[Warren]

My friends and I drew huge battle scenes with corpses all over the place, and aside from being told to put it away and listen to the teacher no one ever said anything about it.

We would also play this game where you drew two opposing battle lines about 2 or 3 inches apart and then placing the pencil tip on one of your soldiers you quickly pushed the eraser so that the tip slid forward. If the resulting line crossed over an enemy soldier he was crossed off. Play continued until one side was out of men. No one ever bothered us about this either.

 

[Thain]

For the record, this is the picture the kid drew:

 

[sm]

Thain,

Thanks for posting the picture.

To me, it looks like two folks standing side-by-side, one with a firearm.
Heck it could be:
-One giving instruction to another.
-RO/SO watching a shooter.

Heck, we have seen Anti's holding real guns, in Media, and they did not look this safe to me!

<expletive> Thought Control, Gov't Meddlin' , Indoctrination and the like is what all this BS is!

 

[Old Fuff]

I'm sure glad that little Oleg didn't go to that school...

If a pencil drawing would get him suspended think what his photographs would do... :banghead:

 

[The Deer Hunter]

I'm sure thats not a gun. 100% sure.

Its a subsonic human mind control device. You can clearly see the imaginary lines representing the waves as they come out of the end of the device. As you can see, the representation of the "projectiles"(which happen to really be waves) get larger the further away from the gun they get. The image is just prior to the device being pointed at the head of the other kid.

 

[Rudy Kohn]

I think the big smile on "David"s face is indicative that there really isn't any ill will here.

The game we played was simlpy called "Guns."

Me and my friends did the same thing. Man, good memories.

 

[Fletchette]

Well, there is one positive thing about this event: the kid has now all the proof he needs that his adult "superiors" are morons.

With a little luck, he will hit his rebellious teens and discover "The Gun Culture".

...Welcome to the Dark Side