Idiocy in the school system example #3487Follow

DENNIS TOWNSHIP, N.J. - 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.

Kyle gave the picture to another child on the school bus, and that child's parents complained about it to school officials.

I dunno about you, but when I was a kid, 90% of the pictures drawn by all kids my age were of guns. Wasn't it Nelson from Simpsons that drew a picture of a plane made of guns, shooting guns for bullets?

I really doubt a zero tolerance gun policy should cover hand drawn pictures of guns... that's just stupid. People are going to be afraid of being shot by a picture?

I remember when I was young drawing whole battles where you'd line up the armies on each side and then commence the fighting.

When I was in the sixth grade, we had spelling and vocabulary words. We had to come up with a sentence for each of the words. We'd have about fifteen a week, I think.

I decided to write the goriest sentence I could for every word. My teacher actually commented on a few, "Good use of imagery," and "Very creative!"

Nowadays, I'd have been drug down to the counselor's office to talk about my feelings...

Alot of the zero tolerance stuff is coming from the right.

In eighth grade, I wrote a long epic story about a girl who fell in love with this guy that turned out to be gay after she went to a s and m bar called "Fists" and yet she still loved him and spent time repeatedly trying to have sex with him to no avail. They were accompanied by an alien lizard that was taken back to his homeplanet and returned as a green chicken and had to oppose this organization of **** retentive supervillains as the streets were paved in blood from their killings.

My teacher was all like "...um..what's up with this story?"

Edited, Oct 22nd 2007 11:08am by Annabella

Very true, however gun control is not one of them.

Allow me to elaborate, should someone be allowed to own a semi automatic assault rifle? Absolutely not, however I do not see the harm in owning say a shotgun, a hunting rifle, or revolver.

It's the "ZOMG GUNZ R BAD" crowd that doesn't look at the cultural significance to guns and Americans.

Fair minded citizen to whack job liberal in 1 post. You on your period or something?

Dispute my point? So much of this sh*t we've had, the random fears, finding an enemy is based on cold war ideology. If you studied history more you'd know what I meant.