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TAUNTON, Mass. - An 8-year-old boy was sent home from school and ordered to undergo a psychological evaluation after he was asked to make a Christmas drawing and came up with what appeared to be a stick figure of Jesus on a cross, the child's father said Tuesday.
OMG! War on X-Mas! The athiests are at the gate!
Johnson said the teacher became upset when his son said he drew himself on the cross.
Oh OK then, might be an over reaction but the problem isn't that he drew a cruifix, but that he drew himself being crucified. Really I expect better from the AP. Course then they wouldn't have had a story or my click.
Don't forget the school is legally obliged to report any hint of violence or child abuse so if a kid is drawing himself being nailed to wood it is not completely insane to want him checked out.
Kid_Kyoto wrote:Don't forget the school is legally obliged to report any hint of violence or child abuse so if a kid is drawing himself being nailed to wood it is not completely insane to want him checked out.
A little insane, but not completely.
I know, but the parents should be involved from the beginning, and intent established until a proper course of action can be established.
Most adults over react because we forget what it is like to think like a child... And the child has no idea why he is being chastised and castigated by the adults he should look up to as role models.
I agree, investigation at the slightest hint is required... But does it have to be an inquisition? Sit the kid down with the teacher, parents, school psychologist, and the principal. Then mis-communications and understanding can be avoided. The father was able to say, "Oh, yeah, he saw crucifixes the other day..." after all.
I still wonder what good it is doing to the kids self esteem by being suspended for following the teachers instructions?
I am a damaged individual screaming random obscenities into the internet, sorry if I upset you.
"Dig what you dig. Don't take any fool's madness, just dig what you dig."
-Corey Taylor (Not Saying you're a fool )
"You guys are nuttier n fruitbats who just sucked a three week old pineapple." -Frazzled
Maybe this is a sign the kid was molested by Pontius Pilate!
Anuvver fing - when they do sumfing, they try to make it look like somfink else to confuse everybody. When one of them wants to lord it over the uvvers, 'e says "I'm very speshul so'z you gotta worship me", or "I know summink wot you lot don't know, so yer better lissen good". Da funny fing is, arf of 'em believe it and da over arf don't, so 'e 'as to hit 'em all anyway or run fer it.
tblock1984 wrote:I agree, investigation at the slightest hint is required... But does it have to be an inquisition? Sit the kid down with the teacher, parents, school psychologist, and the principal. Then mis-communications and understanding can be avoided. The father was able to say, "Oh, yeah, he saw crucifixes the other day..." after all.
I still wonder what good it is doing to the kids self esteem by being suspended for following the teachers instructions?
Yeah, suspension is over the top but 'school is heavy handed when it looks at a single red flag incident' isn't all that big a story, because it's stupidly common.
So instead they give a misleading headline to add fuel to the 'war on christmas' myth. There's every chance we'll have a war on christmas argument here on Dakka in the next month, and this story will be mentioned by someone who honestly believes the PC brigade is trying to steal Christmas.
“We may observe that the government in a civilized country is much more expensive than in a barbarous one; and when we say that one government is more expensive than another, it is the same as if we said that that one country is farther advanced in improvement than another. To say that the government is expensive and the people not oppressed is to say that the people are rich.”
Adam Smith, who must have been some kind of leftie or something.
tblock1984 wrote:I know, but the parents should be involved from the beginning, and intent established until a proper course of action can be established.
Most adults over react because we forget what it is like to think like a child... And the child has no idea why he is being chastised and castigated by the adults he should look up to as role models.
QFT, my brother was sent to counseling when he was a child after answering in one test that he didn´t want to be like our parents. Some kind of family alineation disorder we were told. When someone finally bothered to ask him why he "hated" our parents he answered "I don´t want to be like my mother because she is a girl and I´m a boy. And I don´t want to be like my father because he has white hair" Talk about overreaction, my brother was thinking about physical looks while the "experts" were thinking that he was ready to kill himself or something.
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Jenkins: You don't have jurisdiction here!
Smith Jamison: We aren't here, which means when we open up on you and shred your bodies with automatic fire then this will never have happened.
About the Clans: "Those brief outbursts of sense can't hold back the wave of sibko bred, over hormoned sociopaths that they crank out though."
Perhaps he was just drawing inspiration from his role model. Of course, this isn't me saying he shouldn't get his head examined, just that being a little insane is probably best in this crazy world.
Far better to mindlessly overreact in the name of "child safety" than to be pilloried for failing to "act in time" when that kid later dies of child abuse.
I dont really care enough about this story to comment... It just sounds like.. more PC bollocks to me...
My son got a B+ for his art homework!
We are arming Syrian rebels who support ISIS, who is fighting Iran, who is fighting Iraq who we also support against ISIS, while fighting Kurds who we support while they are fighting Syrian rebels.
"Nice drawing son, but does daddy always walk around in his polkadot under wear? Just wait here while I call the Daily Mail and then Social Services. Damm wargamers when will they learn!"
How do you promote your Hobby? - Legoburner "I run some crappy wargaming website "
Kid_Kyoto wrote:Don't forget the school is legally obliged to report any hint of violence or child abuse so if a kid is drawing himself being nailed to wood it is not completely insane to want him checked out.
A little insane, but not completely.
Thats complete and utter bullsh t. Everyone should be fired. Or not. I don't care actually.
-"Wait a minute.....who is that Frazz is talking to in the gallery? Hmmm something is going on here.....Oh.... it seems there is some dispute over video taping of some sort......Frazz is really upset now..........wait a minute......whats he go there.......is it? Can it be?....Frazz has just unleashed his hidden weiner dog from his mini bag, while quoting shakespeares "Let slip the dogs the war!!" GG
-"Don't mind Frazzled. He's just Dakka's crazy old dude locked in the attic. He's harmless. Mostly."
-TBone the Magnificent 1999-2014, Long Live the King!
warpcrafter wrote:Perhaps he was just drawing inspiration from his role model. Of course, this isn't me saying he shouldn't get his head examined, just that being a little insane is probably best in this crazy world.
That has got to be one of the worst performances of that song I have ever seen. Everyone is just off on it. Pity too, since it is one of my favorites off of that album.
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