School threatens to suspend my 10 year old son over "inappropriate" drawing.

I'm sitting in my car in the parking lot of from my kid's school and am still very pissed off. A little more than an hour ago I receive a call to come to school and meet with the principal about an incident with my son. So my wife and I rushed up there. They've never called us before like this. He's in the fifth grade. This is what it was about:

All the kids in his home class were assigned a book by the teacher from out of the school library, then told to write a two paragraph synopsis of the penultimate moment in the book that the kid thinks is the most memorable part of the book and to make a drawing that tells the story of what happened.

She assigns him a book to read, which has a very violent ending, where one of the main characters in the book, Jen, is killed by another person in a shooting, and as her dying body lay on the ground it is described as blood pouring out of her wound and running into the rose bushes. This takes place at a state government capital building.

So he draws a picture of the shooter, with gun, the state capital building and poor Jen, laying on the ground with a bullet hole and blood running into the rose bushes! And he turns it in!

When my wife and I get there, they have pulled him out of class and confined him in a detention room, and his drawing is presented to us as something that the school district has a zero tolerance policy about, and that is the depiction of guns in the school. They were telling us that district policy is to suspend him. Normally, my sweet wife is very low-key and reserved, but she just came unglued! I didn't have to say hardly anything, because my wife was letting the principal and teacher have it with both barrels (metaphorically speaking, of course).

We all agreed that the drawing was inappropriate for school, but my wife and I focused on the fact that the teacher assigned him a book without her having any knowledge of what was in the book, and without instructing him on what he could or could not write about. At first, the principal said that her hands were tied, and this was a strict policy.

That's when I could see the blood about to come streaming out of wife's eye's and I stepped in and said, "Well, let's make a phone call, right now, to the school district's superintendent and I'll explain to him that this either goes away right now, or it will be all over the Dallas area evening news and in the Dallas Morning News tomorrow and soon after that all over social media and likely picked up and in publications all over the country."

By the time I was done, the principal blinked and backed down, agreeing that the teacher would accept the drawing and his report and instructed to give him a fair grade on the project. She also agreed that the librarian would be consulted and asked to pull the book from the school library.

So we both just left, but are spitting mad that the goddamn idiots running our schools are so caught up in this PC liberal bullshite that they can't see that the fricking kids are just fine! It THEM that are fricked up.

This is the dangerous, inappropriate picture my kid drew that they wanted to suspend him over. Jeezus!