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The idiots ARE in control.:banghead:
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/...essayarres,1,4292604.story?ctrack=1&cset=true
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/...essayarres,1,4292604.story?ctrack=1&cset=true
The idiots ARE in control.
High school senior charged after writing 'disturbing' essay
Associated Press
Published April 26, 2007, 9:51 AM CDT
CARY, Ill. -- An 18-year-old high school student faces disorderly conduct charges for writing an essay that authorities described as violent and disturbing.
Allen Lee, a senior at Cary-Grove High School, was arrested near his northern Illinois home after penning the in-class writing assignment Monday. The assignment had been to use poetic conventions to express ideas and emotions.
"At the very last sentence, I said that this teacher's method of teaching could lead to a school shooting," Lee said Wednesday. He said he'd intended the entire essay as a joke.
After reading the essay, his teacher alerted the school's principal, and district officials reported it to the police.
"The writing assignment depicted violence, was disturbing and inappropriate, but did not contain any specific locations or names," Cary police Chief Ron Delelio said.
Police have declined to release a copy of the essay.
"It raised some flags," said Jeff Puma, a District 155 spokesman. "I think, in this case, the teacher chose to err on the side of caution and, I think, rightly so."
Allen Lee has been removed from the school and faces disciplinary action, Puma said.
Lee, who was arrested Tuesday, posted $75 bond. He is scheduled to appear in court June 18.
Albert Lee said his son was not suspended or expelled but is attending classes somewhere else for the time being.
"I understand what happened recently at Virginia Tech," said Albert Lee, referencing last week's shooting of 32 students by gunman Seung-Hui Cho. "I understand the situation."
But he also defended his son as a straight-A student who was following instructions for the assignment.
Ed Yohnka, spokesman for the American Civil Liberties Union of Illinois, said an essay done for homework would ordinarily be "protected speech."
"He turned it in to a teacher. He didn't post it online," he said. "It's not a communication between him and the broader world."
On Wednesday, students at the school showed support for Lee with a petition drive to let him back into school.
"It raised some flags," said Jeff Puma, a District 155 spokesman. "I think, in this case, the teacher chose to err on the side of caution and, I think, rightly so."
Not in the land of Zero Brains... er, I mean Tolerance.I think that if the teacher found it that disturbing, she should have spoken to the student...