From MSNBC:
DENNIS TOWNSHIP, N.J. – A New Jersey second-grader’s drawing of a stick figure shooting a gun has earned him a one-day school suspension.
Seven-year-old Kyle Walker’s mom told an The Press newspaper of Atlantic City that her son was suspended for violating the district’s zero-tolerance policy on guns. She said her son told her he’d drawn a water pistol.
Kyle gave the picture to another child on the school bus, and that child’s parents complained about it to school officials.
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7 Comments so far. Leave a comment below.Every time I read about one of these zero tolerance policies and the idiots who implement them, I think back to the picture I drew in 4th grade of the “opening the Ark” scene in Raiders of the Lost Ark and how much grief I’d receive if I drew it as a nine-year-old today.
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Heaven forbid the water pistol in the picture kills someone!
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Bubble-wrap and foam padding for all!
Some of the pictures I drew in school would have had me suspended/expelled I guess.
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Wow, I can’t imagine how my “Stick Wars” series I drew in early high school would have gone over (the title really is the description….hundreds of stick people shooting, stabbing, and blowing each other up).
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Here here….every Halloween in grade school we had to write a holiday story and every year mine were eagerly looked forward to by the boys in class because they were essentially The-whole-class-went-to-a-haunted-house/
creepy-themepark/deserted-island-and-got-killed-in-
blatantly-gruesome-fashion. People always laughed about how they got their heads cut off or fed into a giant saw or were set on fire or what have you. It was a treat for us when we were kids to write about this kind of thing.
I only wonder what the teachers must have thought of me…
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Wow, I can’t imagine how my “Stick Wars†series I drew in early high school would have gone over (the title really is the description….hundreds of stick people shooting, stabbing, and blowing each other up).
A kid in my second or third grade class did the same thing, and I did it off and on for years myself. I’d have pages filled with bizarre buildings full of traps and stick guys with weapons and stuff…each page probably had 20 or so stick dudes dieing
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I got through the Michigan public school system just before I think this idiocy really took off–and it’s a good thing, too. I wrote a couple of questionable (by these standards) stories in a few classes.
I also brought a butter knife, a swiss army knife, a real hollowed-out pineapple grenade… My friends and I had a lot of fun pulling the pin on that one and throwing it at each other.
We’re all getting real jobs now; a couple in teaching, some medical. Looking back, there were so many things a paranoid school system could have jumped on to screw that up. I really feel sorry for today’s youth.
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