Drawing gruesome pictures in school

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I can't imagine how many times I'd be suspended for stupid shit like this if I was still school age.





A 14-year-old New Jersey schoolboy - whose dad and stepdad are in the military - was suspended for five days because he drew a "patriotic" stick figure of a U.S Marine blowing away a Taliban fighter, officials said yesterday.

[Sloats]

Heard about the story, read about it, I am on the kid's side, but I still think he should be sterilized.

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He looks like a winner, come on. :duh:

[Hosp]

Originally posted by Sloats
Heard about the story, read about it, I am on the kid's side, but I still think he should be sterilized.

I agree, but I feel that way about everyone from Jersey.

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Scott's mother said school officials described the drawing as \"not the work of a normal mind.\"

:lol:

[Flock of Moosen]

This is kinda similar to another story about a girl who was suspended out in Colorado for writing a story about killing a teacher.
Granted they are a little more on edge about stuff like that because of Columbine, but her story was meant only as fiction and it was clear that was the case after reading it. She didn't say she was going to kill any specific teacher or anything.

People need to lighten up and by the way, since when is killing any Taliban a bad thing.

Originally posted by Hosp

Originally posted by Sloats
Heard about the story, read about it, I am on the kid's side, but I still think he should be sterilized.

I agree, but I feel that way about everyone from Jersey.

:mad:

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Originally posted by Flock of Moosen

Originally posted by Hosp

Originally posted by Sloats
Heard about the story, read about it, I am on the kid's side, but I still think he should be sterilized.

I agree, but I feel that way about everyone from Jersey.

:mad:

I share your anger.

[banana_juice]

thats freedom of expression. All you hear on the news and everything is about the Taliban plotting to blow this up, or to blow that up, or about all the Taliban in the prison on the base in Cuba. And with the kid's family in the military, of course those thoughts are going to go through his mind. I dont see anything wrong with that picture. At least he is only drawing it, and not running out and shooting someone in the head.

[Sloats]

It's better if he would have killed a couple of classmates. Fucking teenagers are reproducing at alarming rates.

[The Brain]

Originally posted by Flock of Moosen
This is kinda similar to another story about a girl who was suspended out in Colorado for writing a story about killing a teacher.
Granted they are a little more on edge about stuff like that because of Columbine, but her story was meant only as fiction and it was clear that was the case after reading it. She didn't say she was going to kill any specific teacher or anything.

Wsan't that a case where she had written in her journal, then passed that journal to her friend to read... in class? Then when the teacher confiscated it, and read it, the school found out about the story?

Here's a thought: how about she not do distracting shit like pass her journal around in fucking class? She can't argue invasion of privacy if she was exposing her work for public consumption. And as for it being a "work of fiction", what if it inspired her or someone who read it down the road to turn it into reality?

In this day and age when idiot kids always seem "inspired" by the rather fictitious world of movies and video games when they go out and shoot someone, or pull some other lameass stunt (or their parents always blame those sources at the very least), we can no longer say, "oh well it was only harmless fiction, no one should think it has any basis in reality". It may not have been about a specific teacher <i>at that point</i>, but who knows what could happen in the future, when someone who has read the work decides to personalize it to fit their own agenda, then does go about focusing on a specific teacher.

Yes, it's all semantics, but let's be clear about one thing: both instances could have been avoided had the children <i>paid attention in the classroom and actually dedicated themselves to learning, rather than goofing off drawing pictures or writing in their diaries.</i>

Pffft. Like <i>that</i> would ever happen.