Author Topic: Boys arrested for stick figure drawings (Read 1428 times)

Heretik · « **Reply #15 on:** January 26, 2005, 11:39:10 AM »

Jeebus! If they'd had this kind of thing when I was in grade school I'd have gotten the chair before I turned 11.

lada · « **Reply #16 on:** January 26, 2005, 11:39:21 AM »

May be we could expect something like " They used to do it in Spart. And it was Ok." In near feature.

Look, they already lock up children to the Jail, some of them want to annihilate old people, some of them mind to take care of their own parents....

ohhh welll

john9001 · « **Reply #17 on:** January 26, 2005, 12:05:35 PM »

sadly, this is the result of not having enough "art classes" in school, our children are forced to draw "stick figures", we need more federal funding of art classes.

JB88 · « **Reply #18 on:** January 26, 2005, 12:11:25 PM »

hoorah!

T0J0 · « **Reply #19 on:** January 26, 2005, 12:34:52 PM »

OMG evil stick figure drawings turn kids violent, must stop them by any means possible...

Toad · « **Reply #20 on:** January 26, 2005, 12:35:07 PM »

Well, if these kids had been caught with guns and shooting at GI's, maybe they'd be at Gitmo too.

nuchpatrick · « **Reply #21 on:** January 26, 2005, 12:39:53 PM »

The odd thing about this Story is that is's a Speical Needs School, for children with A.L.D/A.D.D. Our school systems here are not the best with this Zero tolerance.. And I think this is a bit over kill on the whole thing.

Assresting a child 9-10 for drawings.. that is just plain nuts. What ever happened to going to councelors..

Furball · « **Reply #22 on:** January 26, 2005, 12:40:15 PM »

why has karaya got a 20 ft hair with legs growing out of the top of his head?

my avatar is really mr black fighting off everyone at this years convention. (in mr blacks own mind)

Bodhi · « **Reply #23 on:** January 26, 2005, 12:48:26 PM »

You forgot the knives....

Shamus · « **Reply #24 on:** January 26, 2005, 12:57:53 PM »

It's an example of the "sky is falling" mentality that has been running rampant in the good old USA the last 10 years or so..we must mitigate all perceived risk don't ya know.

shamus

Manedew · « **Reply #25 on:** January 26, 2005, 01:03:26 PM »

No Choice??!?!?!

what bulls***

so maybe we shouldn't have held Nazi's accountable... they were under orders ..... they had no choice .......

They had a choice .. just like people I knew in my public school experiance .... They have a CHOICE ... they just choose the greedy selfish side that protects thier own weak behinds.

He/she's more worried about loseing thier job than worried about this kids LIFE.......

Perspective people .... don't lose it .... I'm gettign really sick and tired of this "I had no choice, it's my job mentality" You always have a choice ... and this Pricipal is a weak weak person, concerned with risking thier own job it seems......

The whole system is a joke ...... a joke on the children

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the system serves the system, not the student ....

Shamus · « **Reply #26 on:** January 26, 2005, 01:11:01 PM »

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Originally posted by Chairboy
Without reading the article, I'm betting that the phrase 'zero tolerance' shows up. That concept causes far more problems then it 'solves'.

Michigan was one of the first to pass these goofy laws, that is why we have a long list of kid's who have been booted out of school for having nail clippers, nail files, butter knives, aspirin etc. in thier possesion

shamus

Staga · « **Reply #27 on:** January 26, 2005, 01:47:08 PM »

There's something really wrong in a country which does that to the childrens.

RTStuka · « **Reply #28 on:** January 26, 2005, 01:56:42 PM »

You guys are all so smart I tell ya its amazing, listen I agree with you that locking up these kids may have been a bit over the top. But consider what would have happened if two weeks these two innocent little kids came to school and started killing kids. Well then once the drawings were found, and it was realized that the school had prior knowledge of these things then people would be calling for the head of everyone at that school.

Dune · « **Reply #29 on:** January 26, 2005, 01:57:40 PM »

In most schools today the admin feels like it has no choice, even in the situations it does.

When I teach at the PD academy, I feel for the officers who get called to be school resource officers. In the old days, when two kids got in a fight the football coach would grab both of them by their necks and drag them to in-house for a few days. Try that now and see how many lawsuits get filed. Besides, most admins are terrified that the next Columbine is about to happen at their school.

So what do they do? They call the guy with the badge and the gun for the slightest infraction. Except he's required to submit a report when it happens. And then the county attorney must figure out a way to deal with it. Becuase if we hammer the kid, we're over-reacting. If we dismiss it or don't file charges, then nothing is happening to the kid because there's no school punnishment. So we're saying their behavior is OK. So we have to figure out some other course and it ties up the system rather than helping or going after the kids who really need it.

With any luck, the county attorney in this situation will have the kids seen by a shrink and they will say it was just a case of boys doing stupid crap. Then the charges will be dismissed.