2nd-grader suspended for drawing of gun
A second-grader's drawing of a stick figure shooting a gun earned him a one-day school suspension.
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.
This bastard’s probably just bought himself
ten year of hard time in detention.
And this
violent imagining?
And this one?
And this one?
Each and every one of the authors of these abominations will undoubtedly rot in prison until rats and ravens come and feast on their meat and marrow.
And you definitely do not want know anything about which white-hot malebolge of Lower Regions the twisted creator of this work of pure evil
will be consigned to for all eternity, nor any details of the fate which awaits him there.
7 comments:
I don't even want to think about the sentence for the one who did this
It seems to me that these fucking assholes should know the difference between depiction and approval. And they should be teaching that distinction to their students, instead of hiding behind pernicious "zero tolerance" garbage.
one of the funniest things i have ever seen happened when my nephew was a little whipper (he's now full grown). he was in a day care at the junior college where his mom was studying to become a nurse and i went out to pick him up. he and a buddy had been playing with legos and they had made "he-man" swords and were playing he-man. they weren't swinging them because that's not how that cartoon rolled. they were standing apart with their swords raised and doing sound effects while the swords put out lasers and stuff. one of the aides came over to them and said "we don't make weapons here." and told the boys to make something else. my nephew didn't drop a stitch. he got busy with the legos and in no time had built a little airplane. he called out "look teacher, i made a plane!
. . . And it's got GUNS! pow pow pow pow pow pow pow!"
i fell out laughing.
I thought he was flipping someone off. Didn't look like a gun.
Its a little over the top. Instead, they should have established a new school program and gone on an on teaching him all about guns and get him some hands on training, show him video of killings by guns... just so he know what guns do and why we don't play with guns. Oh, and require the parents participate and show him where daddy's gun is kept and seeeeee he hides the key here so you can't get at it and have an accidental shooting of playmate in picture. Then send him back to school all properly informed about zero tollerance... of guns not people. You know, like they do with that DARE you to take drugs program. :-|
What about this monstrosity?
res:
"Pablo Picasso never got called an asshole"
physioprof:
It's a feature, not a bug. "Zero Tolerance" gives Authority what it most craves: An infinitely malleable excuse for arbitrary punishments. Keeps the little buggers in the preferred state of mind: terrified and off-balance. Plus, it's always much easier to be consistently stupid than consistently just.
That said, I understand why day care centers have a "no [play] weapons" policy -- and it has nothing to do with raising a generation of pacifists. It's about riding herd on a bunch of young children, without having to resort to duct tape and cattle prods.
I know it seems odd, but parents can be remarkably unsympathetic, when you try to explain how their precious offspring got a Lego lodged in his eye by reminding them that "boys will be boys".
It's sad, because aggressive play looks to be hard-wired in the male gender (and I think it's essential to make space for it). But even if you disregard the fact that no decent day care worker would want a child in their care to come to harm, from a strictly business POV, it's just begging for a lawsuit.
My son is in special education. I'm sure that's what saved his ass when he drew stick figures shooting it out at the top of his homework sheet. It did get special mention at the parent-teacher conference later that week, though.
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