Maybe A Good Ass-Raping Will Learn 'Em!
Q: What do you get when you cross a Police State, Cultural Paranoia, and Political Correctness?
Good thing the stick figures weren't stabbing Bush and making him cry, 'cause they'd be sure to get a one-way trip to Gitmo for being ter'rists!
To me this sets a new standard in pedagogical practices that include suspending a student for wearing a Pepsi t-shirt to his school on "official Coke Day", suspending six-year-olds from school for "sexual harrassment" after kissing a classmate, and forbidding a 7-year-old from using the word "gay" after discussing his lesbian mom with a classmate.
Just as there are Darwin Awards to celebrate those who self-select themselves out of the gene-pool I'm wondering if maybe there should also be Lead Cup Awards to celebrate the wondrously misguided ways a culture implements self-destructive practices.
Students Arrested Over 'Violent' Stick Figure Drawings
OCALA, Fla. -- Two boys, ages 9 and 10, were charged with felonies and taken away from school in handcuffs, accused of making violent drawings of stick figures.
The boys were arrested Monday on charges of making a written threat to kill or harm another person, a second-degree felony.
The special education students used pencil and red crayon to draw primitive stick figure scenes on scrap paper that showed a 10-year-old classmate being stabbed and hung, police said.
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"The officer found they were drawing these pictures for the sole purpose of intimidating and scaring the victim," said Ocala Police Sgt. Russ Kern.
The boy depicted in the drawings told his teacher, who took the sketches and contacted the school dean, Marty Clifford. Clifford called police, who arrested the boys after consulting with the State Attorney's Office.
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Ocala police said they stand behind the decision to arrest the children.
"When an adult or even myself look at the picture looked at it at first I was thinking there is really not much to the picture or I would not be that scared by the picture those children drew," Ocala police spokesman Russ Kearn said. "However, we have to put ourselves in his mind and that's the bottom line here. It is his well-being and the way he perceived that picture to be. It actually put him in extreme fear and he was in fear for his life."
Good thing the stick figures weren't stabbing Bush and making him cry, 'cause they'd be sure to get a one-way trip to Gitmo for being ter'rists!
To me this sets a new standard in pedagogical practices that include suspending a student for wearing a Pepsi t-shirt to his school on "official Coke Day", suspending six-year-olds from school for "sexual harrassment" after kissing a classmate, and forbidding a 7-year-old from using the word "gay" after discussing his lesbian mom with a classmate.
Just as there are Darwin Awards to celebrate those who self-select themselves out of the gene-pool I'm wondering if maybe there should also be Lead Cup Awards to celebrate the wondrously misguided ways a culture implements self-destructive practices.