Kid suspended for drawing a gun

[Ghoulish Delight]

Originally Posted by BarTopDancer

Don't you know? Teenagers are just mini adults now!

I don't consider this treating them like an adult. I had a coworker who has as his screen saver an animation of how to assemble and disassemble a pistol. He is a gun collector and a National Guard fire arms trainer, and the kind of guy who would make a stink just to prove some sort of 1/st/2nd amendment point. Our boss noticed it. What our boss did NOT do was send him home for 3 days. What he did do was talk to him and explain why it was inappropriate. He removed the screen saver without further issue. THAT'S treating someone like an adult. I wish they HAD treated him like an adult, maybe he would have responded to it.

I think a 13 year old can handle having a conversation about "inappropriate" vs. "appropriate". If after that, he continued to turn in homework with questionable drawings, then you got something. But to suspend him like that is a massive over reaction.

Of course, I'll add the disclaimer that it's entirely possible that we are only seeing a fraction of the real story as the parents can say whatever they want to the reporters while the school, wisely, is not commenting.