Threatening Pictures

http://www.breitbart.com/article.php...rticle=1&cat=0

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MESA, Ariz. (AP) - School officials suspended a 13-year-old boy for sketching what looked like a gun, saying the action posed a threat to his classmates.

The boy's parents said the drawing was a harmless doodle and school officials overreacted.

"The school made him feel like he committed a crime. They are doing more damage than good," said the boy's mother, Paula Mosteller.

The drawing did not show blood, bullets, injuries or target any human, the parents said. And the East Valley Tribune reported that the boy said he didn't intend for the picture to be a threat.

Administrators of Payne Junior High in nearby Chandler suspended the boy on Monday for five days but later reduced it to three days.

The boy's father, Ben Mosteller, said that when he went to the school to discuss his son's punishment, school officials mentioned the seriousness of the issue and talked about the massacre at Colorado's Columbine High School, where two teenagers shot and killed 12 students, a teacher and themselves in 1999. Mosteller said he was offended by the reference.

Chandler district spokesman Terry Locke said the crude sketch was "absolutely considered a threat," and that threatening words or pictures are punishable.

I think we all know the real threat here. That thing is clearly not to scale, it could fall over on somebody. =/

Jam it back in, in the dark.

That looks more like a road to me. Not to mention there are smiley faces all over it.

What the fuck is wrong with this country. "Your kid drew a PENCIL! He could stab someone's eye out with a REAL PENCIL!"

Ugh.

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If you ask me, the picture kind of looks like it started out as an airplane.

This is just utter bullshit, another example fo how kids can't have any personal freedom, anything and everything is perceived as a threat no matter how little or miniscule it is by a very protective shallow state of a society.

Better watch out folks, if a kid draws a weapon in class nine chances out of ten he is going to use it on somebody. This is stupid, I remember as a kid we use to play with toy guns during recess, you probably can't even do that anymore.

If things like this continue your going to make a kid or someone in their early teens that anything and everything they do or think of is wrong. By literally turning school into a prison. Your going to make them uncomfortable and they're going to see kids live under this pressure they they can't express their own thoughts because if its anything remotely controversial its going to be perceived as a threat.

This nonsense is only going to continue for so long.

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Any kid whose last name looks like "Molester" is bound to snap at some point.

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That's clearly a 1:30 scale model of the BFG from DOOM. This kid was going to commit genocide and I COMMEND the obtuse school officials for preventing an otherwise potential massacre.

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In chemistry class, I once drew a hydrogen atom. I hear that those are dangerous when split. Glad nobody saw it, I could have had punitive action taken against me!

What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now?

A little more on the incident:

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However, the school failed to contact police, and failed to provide counseling or an evaluation for the student to determine if he intended it as a threat, officials said.

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The family already has contacted the district's governing board about the incident.

[KPHO-TV in Phoenix] said it checked the rules students must follow at school, and found there's nothing in a portion of the student handbook that addresses conduct to indicate the drawing of a weapon poses threat.

Participants in a local newspaper forum were irritated.

"If school officials believed this to be a threat, they are in violation of state law by failing to make a police report. Suspend them," said "Bobo A."

"This once great land of ours (now someone else's) gets SICKER by the day. Not the year, not the month, not the week, but by the DAY. Dennis Prager asked a very interesting question: How did the "Greatest Generation" give birth to the "Most Stupid Generation?" (my paraphrase)," added "loamy l."

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said "Bobo A."

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The drawing looks kinda like a spaceship with a dude riding ontop to me.

What, you don't want my bikini-clad body?

Somebody must've bought him some Transformers DVDs.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Fuck sake, this is completely inadequate.

I am glad I am not a child growing up in the ill-adaptable elementary school system that is present these days. I drew many things when I was a child, many fantastical and violent...an extension of the imagination and nothing more. The fact that I drew macabre things didn't classify a sense of violence, but merely a fascination and interest in something that is taboo.
Art is sometimes simply a way of looking at the world. I mean, can't one draw a gun without becoming one? I should hope so.

Anyone who has any kind of understanding of children should realize that art is a way for a child to work out a part of the sub-conscious. That is, the kid merely may have been recently coming to grips with a particular aspect of culture, experience and/or existence and used art as a means to express that.

That being said, a gun/airplane probably shouldn't prove alarming.

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Haha, I remember when I was in the 6th grade I drew a syringe, a dude hanging himself, a gun and a couple nazi signs. My teacher tried to snatch the paper off my desk so I pretty much jumped on top of it and he grabbed my backpack and pryed it from my arms.

I had some pretty hardcore bullshit in there, especially since that was right after the whole columbine shit (I had pictures of people being shot and what not and a silly short story I wrote about a kid going nuts and killing his teacher). He went through my backpack and saw all this crap so I figured it wouldn't be so bad to surrender the paper I had just drawn...

He pretty much just gave the paper back and humiliated me for a little bit so that worked out, I guess.

A couple days later I was sitting at a lunch table by myself and he walked past me and said "White power, Donald, you know what I mean?" and I just looked at him like "..."

I guess our school just handled things differently... one of our teachers did get fired for molesting a 12-year-old girl, or some shit.

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.