Ariz. school suspends boy for drawing a gun
posted at 5:30 pm on August 23, 2007 by Bryan
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When I was a school kid I loved to draw fighter jets, battle scenes, guns and tanks and cannons and ships, all kinds of boyish stuff. I was never any good at it, and I had a friend whose astounding talents in that area always reminded me that I’d never amount to much as an artist, but I loved to draw, and battles and airplanes and such comprised a lot of what I drew. No one paid any attention to anything I drew, ever, except maybe to humor me. It didn’t bother anyone and I wasn’t any good, and if I was drawing pictures, well, there were a whole lot worse things I could be getting into if I wasn’t doing that. And by most accounts I turned out ok.
If I was a kid in school and drew any of that stuff now, though, I’m convinced that they would cart me away.
MESA, Arizona — Officials at an Arizona school 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.
Maybe there was a miscommunication. Somebody said “Look, that kid drew a gun!” and someone took “drew” entirely the wrong way. Or, you know, schools just tend to be run by moonbat ninnies these days.
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 did not intend for the picture to be a threat…
Chandler district spokesman Terry Locke said the crude sketch was “absolutely considered a threat,” and that threatening words or pictures are punishable.
Looks like “moonbat ninnies” is the way to go, because this does not look like it could possibly reasonably be understood as a threat to me. I mean, it looks like the kid even drew a trigger lock on the thing so it couldn’t accidentally go off and shoot some innocent stickman.
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Looks more like a house to me. Maybe the teacher couldn’t make his latest adjustable rate mortgage payment and was a bit sensitive.
MB4 on August 23, 2007 at 5:34 PM
Man it must astonish people that I haven’t killed anyone because not only did I draw pictures of guns but I pretended things were guns and staged mock battles with my friends.
Dear god, this teacher and any person who agrees with the boy being suspended should be arrested
Defector01 on August 23, 2007 at 5:34 PM
thought crime!
lorien1973 on August 23, 2007 at 5:38 PM
Stoopid kid, he forgot the crescent moon. They would not have done a thing to him otherwise.
*wishing the “/sarc off” fit here.
On-my-soap-box on August 23, 2007 at 5:39 PM
Time to privatize public education, break the back of the socialist teachers monopoly and truly give American kids a chance to get a worthwhile education, make education compete in the market of free ideas and prove that they deserve to get paid.
doriangrey on August 23, 2007 at 5:39 PM
Ha. That might be the best closing line ever.
This is pretty absurd. I don’t think I drew guns as a kid, but I sure drew a bunch of planes and tanks, etc. It wasn’t flowers and teddy bears.
Spirit of 1776 on August 23, 2007 at 5:40 PM
How do liberals ever manage to get through the day, if they freak out over something like this? It’s unreal.
ReubenJCogburn on August 23, 2007 at 5:40 PM
A little boy drawing a gun! Who’da thunk it? The next little girl who draws a pink flower, should get her little ass suspended! Imagine! The audacity of it! Little boys and little girls drawing what little boys and little girls have been drawing for eons!
I’m layin 10:1 odds that the little Cro-Magnon boys drew little bows and arrows in those caves, too.
Actually, this is proof that the Leftists who control the public education system haven’t completely brainwashed the kiddies. What really needs to be done is to eliminate the 2nd Amendment … for the sake of the children.
I really shouldn’t kid about that. It’s exactly what the Leftists want.
:O(
OhEssYouCowboys on August 23, 2007 at 5:41 PM
These nincompoops should turn it right-side up and see that it’s a guy standing on the roof of a building next to the chimney. I think it’s Al Gore, taking a reading.
NellE on August 23, 2007 at 5:42 PM
I drew dragstes as a kid and I have not had the urge to run over anybody – until today.
On-my-soap-box on August 23, 2007 at 5:42 PM
It looks like Clinton’s library to me!
Pam on August 23, 2007 at 5:44 PM
Just one more reason not to send your kids to the goverment indoctrination centers, aka public schools. Sending your kids to a government school is pretty close to child abuse. This is one more reason to home school.
NeverSubmit on August 23, 2007 at 5:45 PM
It looks like Clinton’s library to me!
Pam on August 23, 2007 at 5:44 PM
I can’t see the DNA dripping from the ceiling.
OhEssYouCowboys on August 23, 2007 at 5:46 PM
they’d arrest you for threatening to pollute the environment and create carbon emissions and be thrown in the same cell as the kid who made fart jokes and one cell down from me
Defector01 on August 23, 2007 at 5:46 PM
Man, when I was in elementary school, I used to draw all sorts of military stuff. If I were in that kid’s school they would’ve tried to have given me jail time. I feel sorry for eimmasculation being shoved down this kid’s throat.
aclark on August 23, 2007 at 5:47 PM
I’m sure the ACLU will valiantly defend the boy’s right to free speech and thought, right?
*crickets*
Hollowpoint on August 23, 2007 at 5:48 PM
At worst, the kid should be reprimanded for being a lousy judge of proportion. I mean, he’s 13. He should know that hand grip is way too small for a muzzle like that.
Though, I can’t help but think: Would you like to see my drarings? Cheeky monkey.
yo on August 23, 2007 at 5:48 PM
Drawing guns and battles, taken to it’s highest form:
http://img40.exs.cx/img40/28/feuerfreimovie.swf
JohnW on August 23, 2007 at 5:50 PM
You guys are at least giving me a little hope for this country.
OhEssYouCowboys on August 23, 2007 at 5:50 PM
We’re in the Mesa school district…we home school.
My boy draws guns and swords and battle scenes regularly. We’ve never suspended him.
jdpaz on August 23, 2007 at 5:51 PM
OMG. I can’t believe the level of utter stupidity these public school bozo’s have sunk to. I guess if a kid would shoot a spit wad it would solicit a full swat team response and they would tase him into submission.
conservnut on August 23, 2007 at 5:51 PM
He should have been suspended. That’s an awful picture. /s
BowHuntingTexas on August 23, 2007 at 5:55 PM
Uh oh, my dog is yipping in her sleep. I bet she’s chasing after a squirrel, or something.
I’m going to suspend her.
OhEssYouCowboys on August 23, 2007 at 5:56 PM
Puhleeze.
Reminds me of this story here in Oregon.
heatherrc77 on August 23, 2007 at 5:56 PM
I helped my step-daughter (9 yrs old) make some campaign posters for her to hang up in her school for her run for student council. One of the posters contained the phrase ” Sarah is da bomb!!”, a pretty common saying amongst kids. It also had a crayon drawing of a cartoon like bomb (ala Bugs Bunny) with the fuse lit.
Needless to say, the principal sent this poster home saying it was inappropriate to hang up.
Oh, meanwhile this Phoenix public school is spending 2 whole days of the 4th grade curriculum studying Islam as a part of “geography”. Last time I checked Islam was not a country but a religion. Imagine the outcry if they spent 2 days on the Jewish, Catholic, Buddhist or any other religion?
AZ_Mike on August 23, 2007 at 5:57 PM
Good thing I didn’t have paranoid lefties that got a case of the vapors at the mere mention of a weapon. My notebooks looked like a stickfigure Somme.
Bad Candy on August 23, 2007 at 5:57 PM
And I could draw much better than stick figures, but stick figures are fun as hell, even for people who can draw.
Bad Candy on August 23, 2007 at 6:00 PM
Is that a trigger lock he drew on it? That should be OK then. Right?
Nosferightu on August 23, 2007 at 6:01 PM
Did he draw the bullets too?
Thomas the Wraith on August 23, 2007 at 6:01 PM
What??? Has no one protested this? This is nothing more than insidious indoctrination.
darwin on August 23, 2007 at 6:07 PM
Zero Tolerance Policies = Zero Brain Policies
Maxx on August 23, 2007 at 6:08 PM
I have actively encouraged my son’s efforts at drawing guns, by drawing them with him.
I guess I’m headed for a re-edjumacation kamp.
TexasDan on August 23, 2007 at 6:08 PM
This is my piece
This is my
gunpieceThis one’s for
shootingfunAnd this one’s for fun.
Nope, that just does not work anynore.
On-my-soap-box on August 23, 2007 at 6:09 PM
I wonder what they would have done if he would have drawn a Tank.
Maxx on August 23, 2007 at 6:10 PM
Jees! was the kid a tard? That is one crappy looking gun.
What would happen if a kid drew a box cutter or a garrote.
What if he drew a pitre dish with a strain of bubonic plague?
What if he drew a car or a doctor both of which kill more people than guns?
TheSitRep on August 23, 2007 at 6:10 PM
I wonder what they would have done if he would have drawn a Tank.
Maxx on August 23, 2007 at 6:10 PM
ROFL
On-my-soap-box on August 23, 2007 at 6:12 PM
And then there’s the “sensitivity education” involving homosexuals, transexuals and transgenders. Nope, no indoctrintation goin’ on there … nope. Oh, and the ol’ condom on the banana trick … nope, no indoctrination goin’ on there.
Public schools = indoctrination. They are America’s re-education camps.
OhEssYouCowboys on August 23, 2007 at 6:13 PM
Absolutely un-be-friggin’-leivable. By comparison, the Nazis made sense.
It’s this sort of utter insanity that led me to homeschool my two girls.
Splashman on August 23, 2007 at 6:14 PM
Teacher: Johnny, what did you draw for art today?
Johnny: *hands the teacher a blank sheet of paper
Teacher: What is this Johnny?
Johnny: A picture of a stealth fighter.
Well, you can guess the rest!
On-my-soap-box on August 23, 2007 at 6:15 PM
Another victory for the
ExtortionEducation Teachers Union! Property Taxes going to educationcampsclasses provide the mold of our future citizens.I seem to remember a certain Mac commercial.
Kini on August 23, 2007 at 6:15 PM
How can these people be taken seriously — I guess the education colleges no longer require reasoning as a critical skill in teaching or adminstration of a school. The school district that my daughter attends did a similar thing to an honor student a few years ago with riotious results – edu-crats = morons.
jimwesty on August 23, 2007 at 6:16 PM
Imagine if he had drawn 5 ounces of liquid!
THE HORROR!
mattshu on August 23, 2007 at 6:17 PM
On-my-soap-box on August 23, 2007 at 6:15 PM
Johnny could always say “It’s what I learned in school, today.”
OhEssYouCowboys on August 23, 2007 at 6:18 PM
Don’t you just hate it when someone out-funnies your funny!
On-my-soap-box on August 23, 2007 at 6:19 PM
All I can say is it’s a good thing I’m no longer in school because I would have been suspended for; drawing pictures of guns, planes dropping bombs for swatting girls behinds and on and on. The people running the schools need to get a grip. These are children doing what children always do. But then teachers are mostly members of the “progressive, reality based community” and how scary is that if this is their reality. I also know from my own experience with my own children, now in their 20’s that school is not the place it used to be. We used to have bullies and I was in more fights than I can remember but nothing like the stuff that goes on now with knives, guns, rapes etc. Typical of the lefties it matters more that teachers feel good about themselves than that they actually get results and kids are given a good education. Most young people I know aren’t good spellers, can’t do basic math without a calculator and have trouble putting together a coherent sentence. Sort of like your typical lefty eh!
oilbertan on August 23, 2007 at 6:22 PM
Am I missing something? This kid was obviously suspended for drawing a gun poorly. I mean look at that barrel in relation to the grip. I’ve personally felt that that standards of classifies as “art” have been lax for quite some time.
simon on August 23, 2007 at 6:22 PM
…what classifies as art…
simon on August 23, 2007 at 6:23 PM
Or the word “Intifada”, or the Hezbollah flag, or a likeness of Ché. Then he would be praised for being “culturally sensitive.”
infidel4life on August 23, 2007 at 6:24 PM
Well, my 14 year old son draws guns all the time. Even when in school. I guess he never got caught, because he never was suspended. But this is one of the many, many reasons why I am pulling him out of school (and his 11 year old sister, too) and homeschooling them.
StephC on August 23, 2007 at 6:24 PM
Whoa.
What about jet fighters? We aren’t going down that road are we?/
pat on August 23, 2007 at 6:26 PM
A drawing of Ted Kennedy’s car has killed more stickmen than that kid’s drawing of a gun.
infidel4life on August 23, 2007 at 6:27 PM
OK, let’s get down to brass tacks –
I say that it’s either a Mac-10 or a Mac-11.
Anybody?
OhEssYouCowboys on August 23, 2007 at 6:28 PM
True enough and I considered all of those and more but I thought the crescent moon would be something he could draw with ease and even the idiot teacher would be able to figure out.
On-my-soap-box on August 23, 2007 at 6:29 PM
Well, you know my name is Simon. And the things I draw come true…
STOP, Police, put your hands in the air and step away from the chalk
And now we shall tell the story of Simon in the land of Federal Penitentiary.
Somehow I wonder if kids today are getting the wrong messages…
gekkobear on August 23, 2007 at 6:29 PM
How much farther can this go?
Man, I not only drew guns, I drew automatic weapons, and firing no less. And grenades. And knives.
Not only that, I carried copies of Soldier of Fortune magazine, Guns and Ammo, etc, and openly cheered “Go Contras!” (you can guess what my teen years were)
I would not have survived school today!
JamesLee on August 23, 2007 at 6:30 PM
If he had Just. Drawn. A. Gun ! But no-o-o-o-o. He had to go and draw what looks like one of them high-capacity automatics like a MAC-10 or an Uzi. So it’s really understandable…
eeyore on August 23, 2007 at 6:30 PM
If the lad had drawn a picture of “My Two Mommies” – the class would’ve had to throw him a party. Oh, and he would’ve been advanced two grades … and placed into “honors courses.”
Heavy sigh.
:O|
OhEssYouCowboys on August 23, 2007 at 6:35 PM
When I was a kid, I used to draw whole battle scenes, complete with armored vehicles that had spiked wheels and about ten gun turrets, jets dropping bombs, and impenetrable fortresses. Man, I would have been institutionalized if I were born a bit later.
Weight of Glory on August 23, 2007 at 6:35 PM
I say his next masterpiece should be stick figures of a man and a woman holding hands. That should get him put in prison for being intolerant.
Little bugger knows how to push the limit!
On-my-soap-box on August 23, 2007 at 6:37 PM
And to think that not all that long ago, a rifle hanging in the back window of a pickup parked in the high school lot would have generated little more interest to anyone except whether or not it was just a .22, or something bigger…
The PC liberal lunatics are winning…
NRA4Freedom on August 23, 2007 at 6:39 PM
Bunch of jackalopes…I would say fire their asses but that is impossible. The only other option is home-school but if enough of you start doing that then the Teachers UNIONS will demand that Homeschooling be outlawed and my kids will be forced back into the grind that is organized schooling.
So I will just snicker…and then worry about future jackalopes produced by this insane system we have jury rigged into place.
PierreLegrand on August 23, 2007 at 6:41 PM
I blame Boosh!
My goodness, I cannot believe that has not been said yet!
On-my-soap-box on August 23, 2007 at 6:41 PM
Yup…
PierreLegrand on August 23, 2007 at 6:42 PM
Drawing / Sketching a handgun in school get you “suspended”
Drawing / Sketching a handgun in school with feces spread across it gets you an A+ and your “Masterpiece” is entered in the local Art Exhibit. It’s all in the presentation.
PappaMac on August 23, 2007 at 6:46 PM
Someone’s probably already said this, but I think the kid should’ve been suspended.
Not for drawing a gun, but for totally sucking as an artist.
jaleach on August 23, 2007 at 6:47 PM
What scares me is what will happen to our armed forces in 20 years.
In boot – sergeant speaking gently to some green pukes (in order not to hurt their feelings and lose his commission): We do not issue weapons young men and women so listen up. This is you Quran and it will save you life some day so take care of it. When confronted on the battlefield…..
On-my-soap-box on August 23, 2007 at 6:49 PM
I certainly agree that this is one of the most ridiculous things I’ve heard of, it’s not exactly common. My son goes to public school – an excellent one at that – and regularly draws army pics, gun fights and sword fights. He’s never been reprimanded, never had a note sent home and one of his pictures is actually hanging up in the hallway of the school.
I dunno, maybe I’m lucky. But it sure does seem that every time some idiot teacher or principal goes too far you scream “Indoctrination! Homeschool! Fascism!” and on and on. Don’t get me wrong, I totally support home schooling, vouchers and I understand objections to such things as evolution. However, when you start screaming “Abolish public education!” it sounds unhinged.
SouthernDem on August 23, 2007 at 6:56 PM
I’m really hoping that we see a headline tomorrow that says “Teacher Suspended for Stupidity”.
Stay back! Stay back! I’ll give you a PAPERCUT!!
Tuari on August 23, 2007 at 7:01 PM
Pretty cool design kid.
Maybe DARPA could foot a scholarship for you.
Speakup on August 23, 2007 at 7:06 PM
I used to go target shooting after school and I had a gun rack with weapons too.A browning .22 and a Beretta Shotgun sat on the rack in the school parking lot everyday. People do not realize that we are loosing our freedoms.
This was in the LA suburbs believe it or not, in the late 1960’s.
Nobody even noticed back then. Today they would call out a SWAT team and have the news media showing the police doing a felony take down in the parking lot.
What happened to the 2nd amendment.
Jesus Christ… Jesus Christ(JFC)
ScottyDog on August 23, 2007 at 7:08 PM
Maybe he should have drew the gun inside a jar of pee.. then it would be art instead of being “absolutely considered a threat”.
RobertCSampson on August 23, 2007 at 7:13 PM
I used to draws pictures of nuclear explosions…
If I did that today, I’d probably be in Gitmo…
getting waterboarded.
What a bunch of asses.
jdawg on August 23, 2007 at 7:19 PM
That looks like the latest design plans for the Glock G-9.
You know the one that is made out of ceramic and undetectable at airports.
The kid is a terrorist. He needs to be stopped.
F15Mech on August 23, 2007 at 7:29 PM
Well I used to draw pictures of guns as a child and I’ve only ever murdered twelve people. Well okay thirteen if you count that guy I strnagled with chicken wire in the middle of a forest.
aengus on August 23, 2007 at 7:29 PM
What we need here are zero tolerance laws against stupidity in teachers! If I were king this teacher and all “adults” involved would be made to apologize to the student, parents and community for attempting to stigmatize and traumatize this child! Then they would be fired! Zero tolerance policies are not just stupid, they are evil and dangerous! These policies never take into account any intent or circumstances of the person involved, as we do in most all other areas of law, and the penalties are always near draconian! They also remove responsibility from the teachers in decision making regarding behavior! How convenient it is, as a teacher or principle, to be able to throw your hands up and say “There is nothing I can do to intervene. It is not my responsibility to actually make a judgment as to right or wrong, good or bad.” What kind of society would we have if zero tolerance laws were expanded to other areas? You are caught speeding 5 miles over the limit on your way to the hospital because you just received word your wife was rushed to the ER with chest pains! But,, as sorry as the arresting officer is, due to the zero tolerance policy on speeding,, you are taken directly to jail with a 10 year mandatory sentence while your car is impounded, even though this is your first offense! You realize you made a small mistake in your taxes that caused you to underpay by $10. You immediately contact the IRS on April 17 to make it right and they thank you for your honesty, and as sorry as the arresting IRS officers are, due to zero tolerance policies on tax cheats you go directly to jail for a mandatory 25 year term and all your property is confiscated by the state! You wake up in the morning to find a strange car sitting in your drive way. You have no idea who owns it or how it got there. You contact the police and make a report. The officers thank you for the call, and as sorry as they are, due to zero tolerance laws on stolen property, you go directly to jail for 20 years and must register in your community as a car thief. In some ways, these policies are similar to the laws used against peasants during medieval times,,, stumble into the Kings flower bed could land you in irons. Get caught killing the “Kings rabbit” to feed your starving family and you would end up in prison or lose your head. They are also similar to laws used by communist leaders against the people. I have a prediction that I hope is way off base,, if we do not rid ourselves,, rid our schools of these archaic policies that create a perverted mindset about right and wrong,, this generation that has grown up with these policies will attempt to implement and expand these policies throughout our society. “It was good enough in my school, it is good enough for my town, city or state!”
JellyToast on August 23, 2007 at 7:30 PM
Whoops! Now that we’ve got the Preview button my only excuse is alcohol. Sorry about that typo.
aengus on August 23, 2007 at 7:30 PM
Any kid who didn’t draw lugers and such in his copybook in school wasn’t appreciating all that wasted white space they gave you.
[///////////////////________________^
/______________//__________//
_____//////////:::::::::::::::::]
-::::::::::(..(
–…….(_(___/
–……/
–…../
I’d be in kiddie Leavenworth for the scenes and infernal machines I drew.
The next youth who draws a poorly-sketched pineapple will be likely considered a grenade-loving terrorist.
profitsbeard on August 23, 2007 at 7:34 PM
The kid should be suspended. Had he drawn in the gun pointing at the White House, American Flag, or a Christian symbol; his work would be hanging in the Portland Airport instead of on his folks’ refrigerator.
Clearly the indoctrination program isn’t working at his local socialist incubator (aka public school system). Since a lack of education can never be the fault of the dues- paying union member that insists on being called “teacher.” Therefore, the fact that this child is not showing sufficient outrage must be his deficiency alone. He needs to stay at home until he comes to love big brother.
highhopes on August 23, 2007 at 7:35 PM
Yes but Bryan he could have delivered a fatal papercut to the neck artery of the boy sitting next to him. How you can be so blaze about this is really shocking to me.
aengus on August 23, 2007 at 7:36 PM
My friends and I used to play IRA. The object of the game was to capture someone on the other team. When you captured them you then proceeded to beat the shit out of them. Good times.
aengus on August 23, 2007 at 7:40 PM
Kind of off-topic but this reminds me of when my nephew was 2 and went out for Halloween, dressed as a sheriff, with his Mom. (Dad and I stayed back to hand out candy).
As part of his costume he had a cap gun in his holster.
At one of the neighbors the lady that answered the door was all upset that someone would allow their son to carry “a gun”.
She said to my sister (in-law) something like; I can’t believe you allow him to carry a “gun”.
My sister said something like…Oh that’s all right; when he gets older we plan on teaching him to handle a real one. Turned around and left.
F15Mech on August 23, 2007 at 8:07 PM
but remember
they’re not interested in brain washing our kids into anti gun rights, anti religion, anti capitalism libtards.
riiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiight
One Angry Christian on August 23, 2007 at 8:08 PM
When I was a kid we drew and talked and read about nuclear bombs… I guess today they’d say I was threatening mass murder…
FireDrake on August 23, 2007 at 8:13 PM
This being in Arizona, where or where is Mr McCain?
pilamaye on August 23, 2007 at 8:26 PM
Looks like it’s time for another round of ‘hide the green Army men in unexpected places in the school.’
James on August 23, 2007 at 9:21 PM
Combining two earlier ideas…
with
with a minor correction I think it’s Al Gore,
taking a readingsneaking around moving a monitor in the middle of the night.Unquiet on August 23, 2007 at 9:31 PM
He should have been suspended… because that drawing sucks! Man kid, you’re pathetic! Just kidding
That last part is questionable, but regarding the drawing, I have to agree… I did the same thing… though I tended to draw a variety of things as I got better/older. When I was younger I drew Ziggy looking cartoon guys and Garfield, as I got older it became gangster looking guys with a gun in their waist, and later ninja guys holding the hair of someone they’d decapitated… actually, I’m hesitant to mention that last one, because it sounds messed up… but it wasn’t, it was just something that was easy to draw for me… I think I saw an older kid do it at one point, practiced it, and then got good at it because it was a very simply position (I could draw the guy jumping or kicking, but standing there holding a head by it’s hair was really easy). At any rate, these or just random heads (not dead, just different types of sketched heads) were on my notebooks or backs of homework.
Anyway, I jokingly made fun of the kid’s art, but in all honesty I’m not sure I’d have known that was a gun if someone didn’t tell me.
RightWinged on August 23, 2007 at 9:43 PM
I said “most.”
Bryan on August 23, 2007 at 9:49 PM
Oh for the love of everything holy. Don’t our public schools have slightly bigger things to focus on that what kids are drawing (like perhaps them learning how to read and count so they aren’t screwed for life).
blackrepublican on August 23, 2007 at 9:55 PM
Next to be suspended: Girls who draw horses.
BDavis on August 23, 2007 at 10:21 PM
a THREAT? To WHAT? trees? Pencils? Or best yet, stickmen? (great one Bryan)
I could not even count the guns I drew/penciled let alone the sticks I picked up. Every stick that had a right angle in it was immediately a pistol…and longer sticks, rifles.
Will we now outlaw sticks and then maybe clouds? Clouds that look like guns or explosions, or Alan Colmes? (ok that one we will arrest you)
shooter on August 23, 2007 at 10:22 PM
What we really need to do is shut the public schools down. I’m serious. The government needs to get out of the school business. What a colossal and catastrophic failure the public school experiment has been. America had the finest schools on the planet before the government took them over. Now look at them, just awful. And not only from the standpoint that Johnny can’t read, but the violence and brainwashing that goes on is hideous.
Government should sell off the schools to the highest bidders and let the private sector take over. The quality of education in American schools would improve a thousand percent in very short order. And to think, the government wants to take over health care next, absolutely unthinkable !
Maxx on August 23, 2007 at 10:28 PM
Maybe I should get help…
I once built a model of the space shuttle, after a while I put a model rocket motor (used to build them as well) in the cargo bay “to see what would happen”…
Around the same time (1983), I buried a
coffee cantime capsule, (if anyone wants I can tell you what tree to dig under), You should find some baseball cards a melted piece of plastic that was once a model, and God knows what else.F15Mech on August 23, 2007 at 10:32 PM
These decisions by schools officials will not stop until the parents of this child and others file lawsuits for millions of dollars in damages.
Helloyawl on August 23, 2007 at 10:40 PM
Well I feel threatened that the teacher allowed the drawing to publicized. They need to be more than just suspended for letting such a threatening drawing to make it into the public eye.
The child only threatened the class, the teacher has threatened the whole world. A crime against humanity.
spacemonkey on August 23, 2007 at 11:27 PM
OMG PONIES!
F15Mech on August 23, 2007 at 11:39 PM
Hey, wait a minute! There’s no slide nor ejection port on that pistol. The kid deserves to be suspended.
Mojave Mark on August 24, 2007 at 12:13 AM
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