Usually I make fun of wingnuts when they blame the teachers unions for all of societies ills but things like this make me think they have a point:
MESA, Ariz. (AP) — School officials suspended a 13-year-old boy for sketching what looked like a gun, saying the action posed a threat to his classmates.The boy’s parents said the drawing was a harmless doodle and school officials overreacted. “The school made him feel like he committed a crime. They are doing more damage than good,” said the boy’s mother, Paula Mosteller. The drawing did not show blood, bullets, injuries or target any human, the parents said. And the East Valley Tribune reported that the boy said he didn’t intend for the picture to be a threat. Administrators of Payne Junior High in nearby Chandler suspended the boy on Monday for five days but later reduced it to three days.
I’m not sure that teachers know the US Constitution, including the Second Amendment, much less have the capacity to teach it to others.
I hear this school has changed its history books to read that Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr kissed and made up.
I am not sure it is so much about the second amendment as the first. Whatever the constitional issues this was incredibly boneheaded and does nothing to improve school safety.
I got suspended for a few days for drawing herpes when I was in 7th grade.
Are you sure you didn’t get suspended for passing it on the your teacher?
good point, john rove. but the fact that someone’s constitutionally protected speech is about their constitutionally protected right, well its like constitutional turbo.
al and karl, i think you would have cracked me up in my jr high class and i would have earned a session of detention.
You definitely would have caveat. I’d skate and you’d be done in by those outbursts of laughter.