Reply With QuoteMe and several of my friends would have never been admitted to elementary school under those rules.
2nd-Grader Suspended for Drawing of Gun
SourceDENNIS TOWNSHIP, N.J. — A second-grader's drawing of a stick figure shooting a gun earned him a one-day school suspension.
Kyle Walker, 7, was suspended last week for violating Dennis Township Primary School's zero-tolerance policy on guns, the boy's mother, Shirley McDevitt, told The Press of Atlantic City.
Kyle gave the picture to another child on the school bus, and that child's parents complained about it to school officials, McDevitt said. Her son told her the drawing was of a water gun, she said.
A photocopy of the picture provided by McDevitt showed two stick figures with one pointing a crude-looking gun at the other, the newspaper said. What appeared to be the word "me" was written above the shooter, with another name scribbled above the other figure.
School officials declined to comment Friday. A message left at the superintendent's office Saturday was not returned.
Kyle drew other pictures, including a skateboarder, King Tut, a ghost, a tree and a Cyclops, the newspaper reported.
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Me and several of my friends would have never been admitted to elementary school under those rules.
mmm I second thatOriginally Posted by nullterm
I have drawn guns and other weapons and weapon systems all the time back at school
My politics teacher wasn't very pleased though when he once found an AK-47 drawn on his blackboard - but he never found out who did it
I would have never finished school in US school system.
I wonder if the drawing looked something like thisKyle gave the picture to another child on the school bus, and that child's parents complained about it to school officials
Christ, when I was a kid I used to draw pics of M-16-toting soldiers spraying lead at Vietcong, with Huey gunships flying overhead shooting rockets into nearby villages. Those PC teachers would have had heart attacks over those.
Close to it.I wonder if the drawing looked something like this
I saw the picture in a photo and it showed one boy shooting another boy with a pistol and the boy getting shot name written on the picture. It just happened to be the boy getting shot called David, was in the same class, and the kid who drew it bragged about what it meant. Thats why the suspension happened. Maybe a bit harsh, but alas giving the kid a damn good thrashing with the cane isn't allowed most the time anymore.
If it wasn't involving shooting another classmate of course things would probrobly not get such the attention.
I really hate those zero-tolerance polices, just something for the PC types to hid behind. You know those 2nd graders really love to shoot up schools, don't they?
I would have been committed if these types saw what I drew at school...
And to think, I used to draw pictures of fighter jets napalming villages, and helicopters killing people out in the open. I may have had a depraved mind for a 9 year old, but I turned out fine.
Strange world. Thats one of those things in the US many europeans never will understand.
€dit: I want to say, there is no sense in the punishment. Somebody should talk with him and tell him that there are other ways, instead of suspending him..
Stick figures??? Unbelievable... What's next?
Sorry, when you say drawing a gun i still think of 'Shane' not some kid too young to know better sketching water pistols.
why did this even need to be reported and become official, the teacher probably had a perfectly useful bin ad a fresh sheet of paper in the room?
I used to draw guns all the time in class. My 7th grade math teacher caught on and had me sent to the vice principal and counselor and had my parents called and what not. My parents basically laughed, told the school people to piss off and not waste their time bothering them about it. Pretty much the same thing happened in 5th grade when I went to a firearm-related website and got discovered.
So glad I got to go through school pre-Columbine.
99.9% of the things I drew in art or just doodled elsewhere were guns, people with guns, ninjas, ninjas with guns, robots with guns, ninja robots with guns, things blowing up, people with guns blowing things up....
Nobody thought anything of it and everyone else was drawing the same sorts of things.
Though in the 5th grade a teacher made a kid in class turn his Guns n' Roses Appetite for Destruction t-shirt inside out. I think she was probably acting outside her authority though.
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