Um, what exactly are they afraid of? That more stick figure terrorists will die? Do we need to try and help stick-figure terrorists, and understand them, rather than stop them from wrecking more havoc on innocent stick-figures?
Posted by docmagik (Member # 1131) on :
Sorry, I figured it out. The problem was, the stick figure marine didn't get the go ahead from the stick figure UN. The stick figure marine was acting unilatteraly, and that's just unacceptable.
Posted by Mr.Funny (Member # 4467) on :
quote: Scott's mother said school officials described the drawing as "not the work of a normal mind."
They call him crazy because he drew a stick figure drawing? He is a kid. How is this NOT the work of a normal mind?
[sarcasm] I mean, if war is so bad, they better omit it from the curriculum. Hey, maybe some kid reading about the assassination of JFK will be inspired to go out and assassinate someone! Boy, oh boy, we better go through ALL of our curriculum to make sure that nothing violent is in it, because people might get bad ideas... [/sarcasm]
Posted by littlemissattitude (Member # 4514) on :
quote:Boy, oh boy, we better go through ALL of our curriculum to make sure that nothing violent is in it, because people might get bad ideas...
There are those out there who are already trying. But it isn't just anything violent. It's anything not PC. I wish I could remember the name of the woman who wrote a book about this in the past year or so. I can't find a link right now; if I find it later I'll post it.
What this whole episode with the drawing makes me wonder...what would they have done with the kid that sat next to me in first grade? All he ever did, all day long, was draw pictures of skeletons and monsters. As I recall, the teacher knew all about it - I don't know how she couldn't have known - and there never was a big deal made about it. These days, they would probably have him in therapy so fast he wouldn't have known what hit him.
Posted by Kayla (Member # 2403) on :
quote: But officials at Tinton Falls Middle School noted that the boy included the name of a fellow student above the stick figure being shot in the head.
Damn, I'm cool.
Posted by Teshi (Member # 5024) on :
If the boy drew pictures like this in full colour and depth etc, you would think it quite worrying. It is very gory- blood and guts would be splatted everywhere. It would be rated high in a movie- higher than this fourteen year old boy would legally be allowed to watch in a movie theatre.
And even worse, the picture was of another student at the school. Was it a joke? Do you usually draw pictures of people you know getting blown apart?
I think five days suspension is actually quite reasonable for a graphic drawing.
[ October 30, 2003, 03:48 PM: Message edited by: Teshi ]
Posted by Rhaegar The Fool (Member # 5811) on :
Littlemissattitude, could you be thinking of Anne Coulter? And stuff like this just pisses me off.
Posted by littlemissattitude (Member # 4514) on :
No, not her. The woman I'm thinking of is an academic, I think. I'll have to look around for that link. I'll know the title of the book when I see it.
Posted by Human (Member # 2985) on :
This is ridiculous. There is not one person out there, who, at some point in their life, has drawn something of someone they didn't like getting whacked, or hurt, or bonked over the head with something heavy. This kid just happened to get CAUGHT. If this is what a really bad offense is in schools, then schools are really paranoid.
Posted by Da_Goat (Member # 5529) on :
If he did this for a school project, I would understand. But it seems like he did this during his own free time. In my opinion, this is like suspending somebody because an entry of their private journal, which happened to be written on school grounds, made a complaint about somebody.
Granted, if this was my son and I saw this sketch, I would definitely talk to him about it. I woudln't, however, like my child's school to take action against him.
Besides, if this really was going to be a Columbine case eventually, do they honestly think a five-day suspension is an appropriate punishment? Won't that just tick him off even more?
And, as Human said, we've all "hurt" somebody in one way or another. Most kids (and adults) use drawings and the like as an outlet for their anger, not a spark. I, myself, have killed a few people in my stories (though I give both of us different names). I prefer doing it in stories as it also forces me to see many other points of view.