Kid suspended for drawing a gun - Page 3

Gemini Cricket · 08-22-2007, 01:45 PM

We don't know if there's history with this kid either. There may be other issues.

Besides, it's three days off from school. What kid wouldn't want that?

LSPoorEeyorick · 08-22-2007, 05:52 PM

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Originally Posted by Gemini Cricket

We don't know if there's history with this kid either. There may be other issues.

Yes-- the school isn't at liberty to discuss punishments, so who's to say there wasn't a history of problems? And no, I don't tend to always trust what parents say. I remember first-hand a boy in my class who picked on me incessantly (worms or pepper in my hair, pushed down into the dirt, etc) and when my mother called to ask his mother for help, she denied her son had done anything of the sort.

That said, if there were no prior missteps, suspension seems pretty ridiculous to me.

Gemini Cricket · 08-22-2007, 01:53 PM

On a side note, I changed my avatar from the cat with the gun to the current one, because I kinda felt uneasy about seeing that gun all the time. It kinda made me nervous. Don't know why.

Ghoulish Delight · 08-22-2007, 01:59 PM

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Originally Posted by Gemini Cricket

On a side note, I changed my avatar from the cat with the gun to the current one, because I kinda felt uneasy about seeing that gun all the time. It kinda made me nervous. Don't know why.

I knew I should have suspended your account...

Gemini Cricket · 08-22-2007, 02:00 PM

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I knew I should have suspended your account...

I think you should suspend yourself for your current avatar.

Creepy!

CoasterMatt · 08-22-2007, 02:15 PM

This is my weapon, this is my gun
This one's for fighting, this one's for fun...

CoasterMatt · 08-22-2007, 02:17 PM

I would have been launched in some sort of probe to Mars for the drawings I did in junior high.

I did have one really concerned teacher, who sat me down with my parents to ask about some of the things I drew; she was one of the few I can recall and respect.

scaeagles · 08-22-2007, 04:57 PM

I wonder if any books in the school library have pictures of guns.

Burn 'em.

Gemini Cricket · 08-22-2007, 05:00 PM

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I wonder if any books in the school library have pictures of guns.

Burn 'em.

It's not every picture of guns. It's one drawn by a student, who put in it on his homework and then was given to a teacher in a post-Columbine world.
Didn't the Columbine gunmen have a journal with drawings in it?
I'm just saying...

scaeagles · 08-22-2007, 05:04 PM

I think they also had hit lists, real guns acquired illegally, a plan, and explosives.

Would it be OK if he drew a gun at home? Would that not raise some sort of red flag just as drawing one at school would?

I'm sorry, but the whole guns are evil in and of themselves thing just irritates me. No tolerance shouldn't mean no intelligence.

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08-22-2007, 01:53 PM	#3
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CoasterMatt BRAAAAAAAINS! Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: One Step Beyond... Posts: 8,802	I would have been launched in some sort of probe to Mars for the drawings I did in junior high. I did have one really concerned teacher, who sat me down with my parents to ask about some of the things I drew; she was one of the few I can recall and respect. __________________ Do you like my photography? Visit photosbymatt.tumblr.com to purchase prints!
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scaeagles I LIKE! Join Date: Jan 2005 Posts: 7,819	I wonder if any books in the school library have pictures of guns. Burn 'em.
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08-22-2007, 05:04 PM	#10
scaeagles I LIKE! Join Date: Jan 2005 Posts: 7,819	I think they also had hit lists, real guns acquired illegally, a plan, and explosives. Would it be OK if he drew a gun at home? Would that not raise some sort of red flag just as drawing one at school would? I'm sorry, but the whole guns are evil in and of themselves thing just irritates me. No tolerance shouldn't mean no intelligence.
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