13 year old suspended for drawing!

[ThaHoov 0]

A 13-year-old boy has been suspended for three days by an Arizona public school because he sketched a picture that resembled a gun, something school officials said they “absolutely” believed could pose a threat.

 

“My son is a very good boy,” Paul Mosteller told the television station. “He doesn’t get into trouble. There was nothing on the paper that would signify that it was a threat of any form.”

 

The principal at Payne Junior High School kept the actual drawing, and officials with the Chandler Unified School District declined to release any information about the situation.

 

Mosteller said her son was just idly drawing pictures, and ended up with a fake laser.

 

“He was just basically doodling and not thinking a lot about it,” she said. “We’re not advocates for guns. We don’t have guns in our home. We don’t promote the use of guns. My son was just basically doodling on a piece of paper.”

 

School officials who initially banned the student for five days lowered the penalty to three days after discussing the situation with the boy’s father.

 

“I just can’t believe that there wasn’t another way to resolve this,” Mosteller told the Associated Press. “He’s so upset. The school made him feel like he committed a crime. They are doing more damage than good.”

 

The drawing did not show blood or bullets. Nor did it show injuries or target anyone, the Mostellers said. It just resembled a gun.

 

Terry Locke, a spokesman for the district, told the AP the sketch was “absolutely considered a threat,” and threatening words or pictures are punishable.

 

However, the school failed to contact police, and failed to provide counseling or an evaluation for the student to determine if he intended it as a threat, officials said.

 

The student’s father, Ben Mosteller, said school officials told him how serious they considered the situation, and discussed the 1999 massacre at Colorado’s Columbine High School, where two teens shot and killed 12 students and a teacher, and injured dozens more.

 

That, he said, was extreme and offensive. The family already has contacted the district’s governing board about the incident.

 

The station said it checked the rules students must follow at school, and found there’s nothing in a portion of the student handbook that addresses conduct to indicate the drawing of a weapon poses threat.

© 2007 WorldNetDaily.com

 

Source: http://www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=57276

What is the world coming to? LOL

[Poply 178]

lol I've heard about this. I saw the drawing and it barely even resembles a gun. I've drawn guns before at school lots of times and I've never gotten in trouble for it. And I even live in Arizona

[XGhozt 410]

[aNiMe_FrEaK_ 40]

Son of a gun! i wonder if her/his parents were fired up after hearing this. Did the news station shoot full coverage of the school? XD i'm feeling punny today.

Edited September 4, 2007 by aNiMe_FrEaK_

[mr.pockets 0]

lol thats pretty stupid, the dude was freaking out over that picture thinking it was a total threat that the kid was guna shoot up the place

[XGhozt 410]

That really pisses me off though. I mean, I know we used to draw thing that in a moral sense where alot worse than that. And it's not some kid draws a "lazer gun" that looks like a fucking building with a smilie face on it gets suspended when we drew a picture of a school on fire and boobs randomly, all the teacher would do was put a smilies face and -10 points.

 

Idiots.

[Div 0]

that makes no sense, when i lived in arizona the schools didnt give a fuck (i went to school like 15 minutes from payne) when i went there we got arrested for doing it in the bathrooms not drawing shitty lasers with smiley faces.

 

oh i'm in my new house now btw.

[Zack 0]

Wtf? What school is this, i need to pull some heads out of asses

[Ruler of War 169]

ZOMG I FEEL LIKE MY LIFE IS ENDANGERED BY A "LASER" GUN DRAWN ON A PIECE OF PAPER. OH WAIT, NO I DON'T BECAUSE ITS NOT REAL! some people need to get a life

[Zack 0]

Doesn't even look like a gun...

 

This reminds me of when i was written up for selling drawn porn of their favorite chicks in eight grade...

 

Average Income: 75 cents a day!

 

prices! 25 cents 50 w/ color! Wewt!

 

My midget accomplice was never written up! wtf!!

 

 

 

I didn't even get suspended just detention A/S

 

What kind of school suspends some kid for idly drawing what looks to be a fucked up building!

 

omg....

Edited September 4, 2007 by .Zak

[Kenshyn 638]

Lol.

 

Seriously....

 

1) If I was that kid, I would have taken it as a laughing matter and would have been happier with that 5 day suspension. That's one week of no school!

 

2) That school needs to stfu. They just had nothing better to do so they were cracking down on every little thing.

In my study hall, other kids and I put note cards with bad language on the front of the teachers desk, he never sees it, but shouldn't that be just as bad if we got caught?

[ThaHoov 0]

Son of a gun! i wonder if her/his parents were fired up after hearing this. Did the news station shoot full coverage of the school? XD i'm feeling punny today.

 

LOL is that meant to be a pun?

 

 

Anyways I think schools nowadays are crazy. They are too worried about shit like this, but meanwhile teaching you very little that you can use in the real world aside from Math.

Edited September 5, 2007 by ThaHoov

[Brownie Man 41]

i brought a butcher knife in kinder garden and a swiss army knife in grade one, i got sent to the corner chair.

[Zack 0]

Cockenyafenyam...

 

yea thats kindergarten, no real dark intentions at that age lol...

 

but by 13 the bullying, pressure to smoke/drink and popularity push some kids to the breaking point

 

When i was that young, My anti-drug was DON'T GIVE A SHIT... My anti-columbine...

[plutomic 76]

wait...wait.......a 13 year old drew that?Does he happen to be in special ed?Wtf? What the hell kind of 13 year old "doodles" something so gay..IT looks like he intended for it to be a gun..My guess is he was trying to be funny....That's nothing..One time I really hated my art teacher and i doodled him tied up with a knife through his head,stomach,and legs....I just said i didnt intend for it to be anybody,and i got off the hook:)

[Zack 0]

An 11 year old who sketches naruto hentai... that was the funny! He had serious talent, it was wasted tho looked like a skilled artist sketch O.O

Srsly, how can ppl here, (new jersey) get away with that...

 

I mean, if were that bad in america...

 

in iraq its like...

 

-10 lashes- sneeze

-50 lashes- No name on paper

-Chopped Finger- Late Homework

-Cut off arm- Failed assignment

-Slow burning- Drawing a phased plasma rifle in a 40 watt range

[plutomic 76]

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^---Wtf is that

[Zack 0]

A sign of the apocalypse, why?

[XGhozt 410]

Owned.

[Major Zhuinden 128]

I don't really think it's that bad in Iraq, but now with the americans there it might be like that soon enough.

 

Neways, I have always known some americans are fucking stupid, but this goes over my expectations.

[Zar 696]

Holy crap that is freaking retarded!

THAT DOES NOT LOOK THREATENING! . . . .

*beats breakfast eggs in anger*

Edited September 5, 2007 by Zar

[Major Zhuinden 128]

3 days of suspension for a fucking retardedly made drawing, are you sure America isn't getting worse and worse?

[Kenshyn 638]

I wouldn't say worse and worse, I'd say way too cautious. After all, we did just have that ghoipreghoiprewgh(name) guy shoot and kill 30 people at Virginia Tech.

[Magical_Trever 60]

omfg im 13 and ive drawn shitloads of stuff on board were the teachers can see it.

 

 

today i wrote DICKTATION except the DICK was a DICK. (get it DICK-TATION) and i was a dumbass and put Team America under the romance category for movies and it said "fuck yeah" on it.

 

all the teacher says is grow up

Edited November 26, 2007 by Magical-Trever

[Cyanide 0]

3 days of suspension for a fucking retardedly made drawing, are you sure America isn't getting worse and worse?

 

From the creation point of all retardation ever to exist online, GAIA, I present the story of Clementine...

 

On Gaia Online, there are these newfangled things in your accounts called "passwords". These "passwords" are how you access your account. If you give your "password" to someone else, they can access your account and also change the "password" to something only they know, thus locking you out of your account. This is known as "scamming". If you are "scammed", it is assumed to be your fault.

 

Most [censored]s know the score, but Clementine, a bright and articulate 13-year Manhattanite, thought she, her older sister, and her mother, knew better.

 

Clementine was whoring it up towns like the [censored] she is. When a male stranger repeatedly begged her to gift him a cape, she refused. Before she even finished getting rid of him, she received a PM from some account pretending to be a mod that said she'd been reported and needed to give the mod her password. While this should have set off the red lights, being of slightly better intelligence than a retard, she went and talked with her mother and sister, who unanimously agree she should submit her password.

Her account got nuked shortly afterwards.

 

Rather than realize what she's done is completely stupid, she unleashes THE FUCKING FURY and whines until some blogger goes and harasses Gaia for her. Eventually, the Jews finally twist Gaia's arm into giving Clementine her account back (but not her username), sans all her items except the worthless ones like her precious pet Water Meat (I'm not kidding its actually called 'Water Meat').

 

I'm going to be nice and let you have some quotes from the article:

“ Described by her mother as a shy, intensely creative, sensitive and intuitive child, Clementine's creation of Bluebird and her constant retooling of this avatar allowed her to experiment freely with alternate senses of self. "The transformation was fascinating,” her mother remarked. "To watch her slowly immerse herself in this virtual world and new personality and figure out how to negotiate these new interactions was a perfect opportunity for trial and error in a seemingly safe environment. She became increasingly emboldened and gained confidence from the feedback she received from other avatars as she immersed herself deeper in the culture." „

 

—Clementine's Mother and Fucking Idiot #1, (My response= )

 

 

“ In hindsight, by waiting patiently for some communication from Gaia they had played right into the hands of the hacker by giving him time to abscond, comparable to allowing a kidnapping to go unreported. „

 

—Drama from the article, cause we all know kidnapping is equivalent to losing $60,

 

“ "My watermeat is here," Clementine tearfully finds. "That's good." „

 

—Moar Drama from the article,

 

 

“ ... she realizes that while she was banned someone had traded her possessions for $134,508 in Gaian gold. Her identity lost, her valuable possessions stolen and sold, for the first time she now knows what it feels like to be the victim of a serious crime. „

 

—Still Moar Drama,

 

 

“ ...to Clementine the victimization is real and her Mom believes she needs support and an opportunity to heal emotionally from the experience. „

 

—Oh cry me a fucking river,

 

“ Clementine's loss – meaningful to her – is less than $60, although that relatively small sum had been converted into more than $130,000 in Gaia gold, attesting to Clementine's collecting skills, passion and commitment. „

 

—Sure, if you've only been on Gaia for a month and kept yourself logged in for days and days on end, ignoring a little thing called LIFE,

 

 

“ You can't have your most valuable bling hanging out for every virtual thief to covet. „

 

—Clementine's Mother, who thinks her daughter's shit is valuable,

 

 

“ this publication's editor mentions Clementine's experience and suffering to a senior marketing executive from a major national advertiser who coincidentally has contacts at Gaia and their venture firm. She advances Bluebird's cause with Gaia CEO Craig Sherman. Within a week, Bluebird’s identity is restored, her possessions and Gaia gold is tracked down, recovered and returned. „

 

—Whoop-de-fucking-doo,

 

Most of this was just stolen off the ED article here:

http://encyclopediadramatica.com/Clementine

 

By the way if you were wondering about the news bit, its here:

http://www.jackmyers.com/commentary/media-...t/11193066.html

(TL;DR for me)

 

(I removed some of the swear words because I haven't read the rules properly about.. excessive swearing? Bah, its OK I guess)