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re: School threatens to suspend my 10 year old son over "inappropriate" drawing.
Posted on 11/14/16 at 12:04 pm to biggsc
Posted on 11/14/16 at 12:04 pm to biggsc
quote:Just walked in and sat down at my computer. The book is Among the Hidden. I don't have a problem with him reading the book. I have a problem with the school's stupid teacher for assigning it without having read it herself and knowing what was in it, then the teacher and principal overreacting.
Can I ask what book your son was told to read?
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Posted on 11/14/16 at 12:04 pm to HubbaBubba
Imagine if the book was (which is in most public school libraries) Heather has two mommies.
Posted on 11/14/16 at 12:04 pm to Mr.Perfect
quote:
We we are handing 11 year olds books depicting gun violence now?
Oh no! Gun violence!
See, this is the problem. Kids were reading stories about wars and battles and adventurers from a young age back in the day. Now people want them coddled like some little fragile China doll.
Maybe we focus on raising them instead of being worried if they read about someone shooting a gun.
Posted on 11/14/16 at 12:05 pm to Tiguar
quote:
I mean, zero tolerance policies are dumb, but this is a little different than chewing a pop tart to look like a gun
The difference still shows the idiocy of this "zero tolerance" policy. Anyone that can't tell the difference between a kid drawing a gun as part of fulfilling an assignment to draw an important point in a book from a kid drawing a gun with the intent to intimidate or threaten doesn't deserve the title of "educator".
Posted on 11/14/16 at 12:05 pm to Tiguar
quote:every kid got a unique book.
so what did the other 20 or so students turn in? Inquiring minds
Posted on 11/14/16 at 12:05 pm to HubbaBubba
if the kid wasn't advised otherwise I dont see how they could be mad at him for drawing this as it was the climax part of the book.
I think they should have just used this as a teaching moment instead of making such a huge deal out of it.
I think they should have just used this as a teaching moment instead of making such a huge deal out of it.
Posted on 11/14/16 at 12:06 pm to Green Chili Tiger
quote:You win a prize! Good snoop.
Sounds like "Among the Hidden".
Posted on 11/14/16 at 12:06 pm to HubbaBubba
quote:
Among the Hidden is a 1998 young adult novel by Margaret Peterson Haddix concerning a fictional future in which drastic measures have been taken to quell overpopulation. It is the first of seven novels in the Shadow Children series
Posted on 11/14/16 at 12:07 pm to HubbaBubba
this had to come from a bank, I doubt the teacher read all those books then and determined the climax.
I bet that's why the principal was so quick to back down- it's probably part of some approved curriculum and last thing they want is that on the news.
I bet that's why the principal was so quick to back down- it's probably part of some approved curriculum and last thing they want is that on the news.
Posted on 11/14/16 at 12:07 pm to Radiojones
quote:
Had the school not backed down I would have recommended lawyering up.
Need to do that anyway - Seems like there is a good case for 'traumatizing' a child - first by assigning him to read a book about bloody murder - then asking him to de4scribe the carnage and draw a PICTURE of the 'climatic' moment - and THEN calling him on the carpet and threatening to suspend him..
If someone has deep pockets to initiate such a lawsuit they should make the School District go thru the expense of defending it and dealing with the attendant public scorn.
I worked as a math teacher for the final 13 years of my professional life - and the School Boards make all decisions based on 'avoiding a lawsuit."
Turn this shite back on them.
Posted on 11/14/16 at 12:07 pm to HubbaBubba
I remember when I was in school and I got in trouble for drawing a nuclear bomb.
I still have it:
It's ridiculous how sensitive and PC people are today.
I still have it:
It's ridiculous how sensitive and PC people are today.
Posted on 11/14/16 at 12:08 pm to Tiguar
quote:
your vitriol is misplaced.
I said in my post its dumb. I simply see how the image would cause a school administrator pause, especially with all the talk of assassinations about these days.
Kid should experience no push back and the teacher reprimanded, but as a neutral party (it's not my kid), I can see how a principle would think "wtf".
Hell, the op himself said he admitted the picture was inappropriate.
Try to keep up.
It's not misplaced. Your comment came across as saying you saw how it could be seen that the kid was in the wrong. You did not give weight to the fact that he followed the instructions, and the premise was flawed from the beginning by the teacher's choice of book.
Don't want vitriol? Do a better job of framing your position.
Posted on 11/14/16 at 12:08 pm to TROLA
quote:He's the bomb on drums, though.
Glad to see my 11 year old son isnt the only shitty drawer out there
Posted on 11/14/16 at 12:09 pm to HubbaBubba
Last day of school in 5th grade our GT teacher brought his N64 with Goldeneye and we had a Goldeneye Tournament
No one cared
We would play cops and robbers at recess and used sticks as guns
No one cared
We would play cops and robbers at recess and used sticks as guns
Posted on 11/14/16 at 12:09 pm to Ag Zwin
Or you could just not make a bunch of assumptions about shite I didn't say.
Posted on 11/14/16 at 12:10 pm to HubbaBubba
What book was it?
Posted on 11/14/16 at 12:10 pm to HubbaBubba
Are we even sure thats a gun in the perps hand.. Looks like a banana or maybe a boomerang
Posted on 11/14/16 at 12:10 pm to HubbaBubba
I remember drawing pictures of monster trucks with all kind of guns and bazookas all over them when I was a kid...as did every other boy in the class
Posted on 11/14/16 at 12:11 pm to HubbaBubba
Cool pic. Smart kid. Teacher and principal are CUCKS!
Posted on 11/14/16 at 12:12 pm to Tiguar
quote:I'm gonna be honest... when I first saw the picture I chuckled.
I can see how a principle would think "wtf".
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