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School threatens to suspend my 10 year old son over "inappropriate" drawing.
Posted on 11/14/16 at 11:52 am
Posted on 11/14/16 at 11:52 am
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!
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!
Posted on 11/14/16 at 11:53 am to HubbaBubba
Is that Aaron Burr?
Posted on 11/14/16 at 11:54 am to HubbaBubba
I mean, zero tolerance policies are dumb, but this is a little different than chewing a pop tart to look like a gun
Posted on 11/14/16 at 11:54 am to HubbaBubba
Sounds like he aced the assignment.
Posted on 11/14/16 at 11:54 am to HubbaBubba
sounds like your kid got the assignment correct.
They should suspend the teacher if anyone.
They should suspend the teacher if anyone.
Posted on 11/14/16 at 11:55 am to HubbaBubba
Vibes. You handled it correctly.
Posted on 11/14/16 at 11:55 am to HubbaBubba
So, can we assume that the teacher will be suspended for assigning a book to a fifth grader that ends in a murder?
Posted on 11/14/16 at 11:55 am to HubbaBubba
Can I ask what book your son was told to read?
Posted on 11/14/16 at 11:55 am to HubbaBubba
quote:
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
So why did they assign the reading involving a shooting?
Posted on 11/14/16 at 11:56 am to HubbaBubba
Oh man, I would have never survived school today. My friends and I always drew battle scenes. Tanks blowing each other up, barbed wire, snipers, etc. Boys can't be boys anymore. And then they medicate them and call it ADD when its really just the schools creating an anti-boy environment.
Posted on 11/14/16 at 11:56 am to HubbaBubba
I would have been suspended a million times with this policy
I remember we would make guns out of index cards and play with them at recess
We would draw pictures of violence. For art class in 7th grade I drew a picture of people on the ground shooting down a plane and the parachuters getting shot down by missiles and it was hung in the hallway
I remember we would make guns out of index cards and play with them at recess
We would draw pictures of violence. For art class in 7th grade I drew a picture of people on the ground shooting down a plane and the parachuters getting shot down by missiles and it was hung in the hallway
Posted on 11/14/16 at 11:56 am to HubbaBubba
Teacher was completely in the wrong by assigning the book as was the school and school district for having it in the library. The poor child did NOTHING wrong but unfortunately will now feel paranoid for a long time over this. Had the school not backed down I would have recommended lawyering up.
Posted on 11/14/16 at 11:56 am to HubbaBubba
We we are handing 11 year olds books depicting gun violence now?
Just crazy.
Glad you won
Just crazy.
Glad you won
Posted on 11/14/16 at 11:56 am to HubbaBubba
School admins have lost all common sense.
Posted on 11/14/16 at 11:56 am to HubbaBubba
quote:
We all agreed that the drawing was inappropriate for school
Why would you agree with that if that was actually in the book?
Posted on 11/14/16 at 11:56 am to HubbaBubba
Your son goes to a shitty school.......oh wait......all public schools are shitty, libtard, PC schools now.......sorry bro.......tell your wife she's the shite
Posted on 11/14/16 at 11:56 am to HubbaBubba
I've always followed a policy of "when you win an argument, shut up."
You've won....big league!
You've won....big league!
Posted on 11/14/16 at 11:57 am to HubbaBubba
Sounds like a lazy arse teacher who either never read the book or didn't care enough to think about the possible results.
Posted on 11/14/16 at 11:57 am to HubbaBubba
Sounds like you grab that principal by the pussy and didn't let go until he capitulated.
This post was edited on 11/14/16 at 11:58 am
Posted on 11/14/16 at 11:58 am to HubbaBubba
Be thankful he limited the brown crayon to hair...
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