7-year-old suspended over stick-figure drawing

[Number1]

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.

The case is not the first in New Jersey in which students were suspended for depictions of weapons.

Four kindergarten boys were suspended in 2000 for playing cops and robbers, even though they were using their fingers as guns.

Meanwhile in other states you can shoot someone for steeling a bicycle.

:roll:

 

[Anubis]

and the pussificiation of america continues

 

[Jawo]

:frown: Indeed.

 

[Saint Michael]

Originally posted by: Number1

Meanwhile in other states you can shoot someone for steeling a bicycle.

:roll:

That's really understandable though, as a biker I know if somebody came along and converted my aluminum frame to steel with their magical outer-space hands it would significantly affect my cycling.

 

[brxndxn]

Zero tolerance is so fucking stupid.

Let kids be kids.. or let them be fat fucking obese worthless video-game-playing lard buckets.

 

[Number1]

Originally posted by: Saint Michael

Originally posted by: Number1

Meanwhile in other states you can shoot someone for steeling a bicycle.

:roll:

That's really understandable though, as a biker I know if somebody came along and converted my aluminum frame to steel with their magical outer-space hands it would significantly affect my cycling.

WHatever you're smoking, I want some.

 

[moshquerade]

dumb. zero tolerance policy enacted using zero intelligence.

 

[aberdeen5]

Originally posted by: Number1

Originally posted by: Saint Michael

Originally posted by: Number1

Meanwhile in other states you can shoot someone for steeling a bicycle.

:roll:

That's really understandable though, as a biker I know if somebody came along and converted my aluminum frame to steel with their magical outer-space hands it would significantly affect my cycling.

WHatever you're smoking, I want some.

Check the bold.

 

[jagec]

"zero-tolerance" policy on GUNS, not on *&$# drawings:roll:

Besides, zero-tolerance policies are almost never a good idea. It's not as if they enact harsher penalties for the worst offenders, they just enforce the harshest penalty on ALL offenders, even the ones who don't deserve any punishment at all.

 

[nakedfrog]

We need to track down the parents who complained and organize a mass shit-slapping-out-of.

 

[nakedfrog]

Originally posted by: Number1

Originally posted by: Saint Michael

Originally posted by: Number1

Meanwhile in other states you can shoot someone for steeling a bicycle.

:roll:

That's really understandable though, as a biker I know if somebody came along and converted my aluminum frame to steel with their magical outer-space hands it would significantly affect my cycling.

WHatever you're smoking, I want some.

"steeling a bicycle"

 

[trOver]

this almost happened to me, actually i was almost expelled. Luckily, my mom knew the principal.

my drawing was in 7th grade, of almost the same as this, stick people with guns, etc.

I didn't even know i was doing anything wrong... stupid school

 

[George P Burdell]

Originally posted by: Anubis
and the pussificiation of america continues

 

[NFS4]

Why are some school officials so fucking stupid?

Columbine + 9/11 = America has lost its fucking mind

 

[Kadarin]

Originally posted by: NFS4
Why are some school officials so fucking stupid?

Columbine + 9/11 = America has lost its fucking mind

Agreed. It will be a factor in the downfall of America.

 

[Harabec]

Hah. This is so freaking absurd.

 

[BrokenVisage]

Originally posted by: George P Burdell

Originally posted by: Anubis
and the pussificiation of america continues

 

[compuwiz1]

But, but, that stick figure might have put ideas into the heads of teh ghetto kids! :roll:

 

[flxnimprtmscl]

Originally posted by: BrokenVisage

Originally posted by: George P Burdell

Originally posted by: Anubis
and the raging stupidity of America continues

Fixed.

 

[Rangoric]

I would have been soo suspended OFTEN if my school had that policy. Just about the only thing I could draw that looked cool were weapons and landscapes.

And I wrote fantasy stores and sci fi stories.

So glad I didn't have to deal with that.

 

[manlymatt83]

New Jersey SUCKS, hence why I left

 

[miniMUNCH]

Originally posted by: Anubis
and the pussificiation of america continues

Perfect commentary.

What the fvck is happening to our country?

 

[DivideBYZero]

Originally posted by: miniMUNCH

Originally posted by: Anubis
and the pussificiation of america continues

Perfect commentary.

What the fvck is happening to our country?

Pussificiation?

 

[potato28]

I'm so glad I live in Canada, I still make giant stick wars on paper during meetings with co-workers.

 

[SpunkyJones]

Originally posted by: Rangoric
I would have been soo suspended OFTEN if my school had that policy. Just about the only thing I could draw that looked cool were weapons and landscapes.

And I wrote fantasy stores and sci fi stories.

So glad I didn't have to deal with that.

Me too. Thats all we did in elementary school was draw war pictures. I never would have gotten out of fourth grade with these rules.