Comments on: Ariz. school suspends boy for drawing a gun

By: Hot Air » Blog Archive » School suspends boy for drawing water pistol

Hot Air » Blog Archive » School suspends boy for drawing water pistol — Mon, 22 Oct 2007 15:33:51 +0000

[...] because I thought I’d posted this story months ago. It turned out that I had, sort of, only that case back in August concerned a boy in Arizona who’d sketched a very blocky gun with a trigger lock on it. He got [...]

By: ScottyDog

ScottyDog — Fri, 24 Aug 2007 19:54:43 +0000

They suspended a kid for drawing a house with a laundry chute?

Miss_Anthrope on August 24, 2007 at 2:52 PM

LOL

The problems is the kid was honest. He should have said it was a sketch of Gitmo and it depicted water boarding.

They would have pinned it up on the bulletin board.

By: Miss_Anthrope

Miss_Anthrope — Fri, 24 Aug 2007 18:52:29 +0000

I don’t understand.

They suspended a kid for drawing a house with a laundry chute?

By: Dork B.

Dork B. — Fri, 24 Aug 2007 18:11:44 +0000

I used to draw X-Wing fighters, cowboys and indians, Sperm Whales, the Goodyear Blimp, revolvers, laser guns, Superman, Bowie Knives, and naked girls. Occasionally I still do, when I want to stick it to The Man.

By: Catseye

Catseye — Fri, 24 Aug 2007 18:09:56 +0000

Projection, in the hands of a liberal, is more dangerous than a gun in the hand an honest citizen.

By: Wingo

Wingo — Fri, 24 Aug 2007 17:36:17 +0000

My nephew was never allowed to play with toy guns. One morning at breakfast, he bit his toast into the shape of a gun and shot my sister with it. Boys will be boys.

By: Using a regulatory howitzer to kill a fly — and destroying freedom in the process « Bookworm Room

Fri, 24 Aug 2007 16:09:39 +0000

[...] is the same insanity that plays out in the zero tolerance world that most recently saw a boy suspended from school for drawing what was either a science fiction style weapon or a wacky [...]

By: duff65

duff65 — Fri, 24 Aug 2007 15:54:42 +0000

This whole thing is beyond insane. They should fire everyone in the decision making loop at that school and try to find replacements with at least partial brains. Of course that can’t happen without breaking up the teacher’s union. Sigh!

By: Liberty Pundit

Liberty Pundit — Fri, 24 Aug 2007 11:12:53 +0000

[...] have to agree with Bryan, if I were a kid in today’s school system, I’d be getting kicked out [...]

By: Prufrock

Prufrock — Fri, 24 Aug 2007 08:41:34 +0000

Great headline, Bryan – you had me going there for a minute.

By: Montana

Montana — Fri, 24 Aug 2007 05:48:26 +0000

Terry Locke said the crude sketch was “absolutely considered a threat

Terry is a pansy.

By: TinMan13

TinMan13 — Fri, 24 Aug 2007 05:44:10 +0000

We carried cap guns and wore masks like the Lone Ranger on Go Western Day. Plastic knives and handcuffs, too.
We strapped BB guns to our handlebars so we could shoot cans in vacant lots.
I turned out okay.

But, uh, a surprising number of the kids I went to school with died as a result of handguns. Uh, ermmm, eh… Never mind.

By: Weebork

Weebork — Fri, 24 Aug 2007 04:46:33 +0000

Judges are the ones responsible for this nonsense over “zero tolerance”. I disagree with the absurdity of the teacher and principle’s reaction, but at the same time, this is what they have to do because of lawsuits. Schools have to be this absurd because the one time they’re not, the one time they’re reasonable and let someone slide, they’ll get sued by everyone else who they weren’t so easy on. They’ll get sued unless they treat everyone equally miserable.

The only way to stop this nonsense is to pass laws that protect schools from dopey lawsuits and raise the burden of proof for such lawsuits so idiot judges can’t just approve shame lawsuits. Remember, lawsuits have to be approved by a judge.

By: Blue Crab Boulevard » Ludicrous, Mindless Stupidity

Blue Crab Boulevard » Ludicrous, Mindless Stupidity — Fri, 24 Aug 2007 04:40:13 +0000

[...] Others: Hot Air, Moonbattery, The Gun Toting Liberal Wake up America, K-7os, American Pugilist (with video of [...]

By: Buford

Buford — Fri, 24 Aug 2007 04:28:41 +0000

I would just would like to point out, the two high schools in the county I live in both have rifle teams and turn out some of the best marksmen in the country on a yearly basis. Not all public schools have gone off the deep end.

By: RightWinged

RightWinged — Fri, 24 Aug 2007 04:21:03 +0000

I said “most.”

Bryan on August 23, 2007 at 9:49 PM

I know.

By: Mojave Mark

Mojave Mark — Fri, 24 Aug 2007 04:13:31 +0000

Hey, wait a minute! There’s no slide nor ejection port on that pistol. The kid deserves to be suspended.

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Fri, 24 Aug 2007 03:52:09 +0000

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By: F15Mech

F15Mech — Fri, 24 Aug 2007 03:39:50 +0000

Next to be suspended: Girls who draw horses.

BDavis on August 23, 2007 at 10:21 PM

OMG PONIES!

By: spacemonkey

spacemonkey — Fri, 24 Aug 2007 03:27:59 +0000

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.

By: Helloyawl

Helloyawl — Fri, 24 Aug 2007 02:40:30 +0000

These decisions by schools officials will not stop until the parents of this child and others file lawsuits for millions of dollars in damages.

By: F15Mech

F15Mech — Fri, 24 Aug 2007 02:32:18 +0000

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 can~~ time 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.

By: Maxx

Maxx — Fri, 24 Aug 2007 02:28:48 +0000

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 !

By: shooter

shooter — Fri, 24 Aug 2007 02:22:26 +0000

Terry Locke said the crude sketch was “absolutely considered a threat

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)

By: BDavis

BDavis — Fri, 24 Aug 2007 02:21:27 +0000

Next to be suspended: Girls who draw horses.