8-year-old draws stick-figure Jesus on the Cross; is suspended, sent to shrink.
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[QUOTE=lazyguy;18996140]Because 8-year-olds will never have seen a crucifix ever unless they are indoctrinated :rolleye:[/QUOTE]
It said in the article that they went to some Christian retreat or something.
Oh boy, Glenn Beck got a hold of this. Apparantly, this is Obama indoctrinating children with atheism.
That's just fucked up, he's only 8.
Holy shit.
If I drew the kind of stuff I did back in grade school today, I would probably be sent to a mental institution.
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[QUOTE=Sams Brume;19004391]Oh boy, Glenn Beck got a hold of this. Apparantly, this is Obama indoctrinating children with atheism.[/QUOTE]
You're joking.
Please.
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[QUOTE=Ty2_d2;18978079]Haha.
Sucks for those people. But I laugh because those administrators are so fucking stupid.
In 8th grade I drew a huge battlefield of stick people killing eachother in hundreds of different ways. Be it with their hands, guns, sticks, flags, grenades, guillotines, jets, tanks, knives, zombie cannibalism, I actually started to run out of ideas, that's the only reason it stopped at 4 pages taped together. It wasn't just one plane either, it was multiple layers of carnage, going back into the far horizon.
I guess if I drew it at his school I would have been expelled, because I had all my freinds sign their names on the characters they wanted to be, and I let the teachers choose those stick characters who were being killed, one notably chose one who was being chainsawed in half. Another having her face cut in two by a shield.
I showed this to everyone and everyone got a kick out of its 5 color splendor :P
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Hehehe, I found 2 bits of it on my photobucket.
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2nd pic wasn't finished at the time...[/QUOTE]
This is the kind of stuff I drew while bored in class. I made comics. They were terrible.
Your post made me nostalgia, thanks buddy!
[QUOTE=Talat112;19006766]You're joking.
Please.[/QUOTE]
I wish I was, but that's the gist of what he said, if I'm remembering correctly.
[QUOTE=Sams Brume;19002318]Because genitalia and [i]torture[/i] are equally mature subjects.[/QUOTE]
We also drew tortured genitalia.
I do this at school all the time, and the teacher does not care...
[QUOTE=Sams Brume;19002318]Because genitalia and [i]torture[/i] are equally mature subjects.[/QUOTE]
DAMN STRAIGHT!
We need to crack down on all those kids saying "Cross my heart and hope to die" as well!
WE MUST STOP CHILD SUICIDE PACTS!
Ok, so apparently we have the story wrong.
The kid drew a picture of a stick figure on a cross with X's for eyes showing that it was dead. Then, the teacher asked him what it was and he said "me." Which is why he got a psychological evaluation. The one saying it is Jesus is the kids dad.
Rate me clocks if I'm late. I skimmed the thread but didn't see anything about this.
They printed a picture of the drawing in the local newspaper, and where that image is cut off at the top in the OP there is a little name in the box. It doesn't say Jesus and presumably it's the kids name.
wondered what would of happened if he drew a Christmas tree
"OMG HE DREW A POT PLANT SEND HIM TO A DRUG REHABILITATION CENTER"
but that is a real dumb move on the schools behalf
Wow, this school is Communist...
[QUOTE=Die_Hard;19019689]wondered what would of happened if he drew a Christmas tree
"OMG HE DREW A POT PLANT SEND HIM TO A DRUG REHABILITATION CENTER"
but that is a real dumb move on the schools behalf[/QUOTE]
Because pine trees and marijuana leaves looks so similar. :downs:
[QUOTE=lazyguy;19017669]DAMN STRAIGHT!
We need to crack down on all those kids saying "Cross my heart and hope to die" as well!
WE MUST STOP CHILD SUICIDE PACTS![/QUOTE]
Child Suicide Pacts are serious business. Haven't you ever seen Jisatsu Sākuru?
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=orbUVo7sqCw[/media]
[QUOTE=Sams Brume;19024823][B]Because pine trees and marijuana leaves looks so similar. :downs:[/B]
Child Suicide Pacts are serious business. Haven't you ever seen Jisatsu Sākuru?
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=orbUVo7sqCw[/media][/QUOTE]
not everyone is an artist
[img]http://www.istockphoto.com/file_thumbview_approve/1054680/2/istockphoto_1054680-child-s-crayon-drawing-of-a-pine-tree.jpg[/img]
[img]http://www.clker.com/cliparts/7/2/e/1/1194984703896920016cannabis_leaf_anonymous_.svg.hi.png[/img]
I can hardly tell the difference!
If we were talking about maple leaves, I could totally see what you mean.
wow i make comments like jesus is a zombie in my high school which is a chathlioc one this is just dumb
Doug you actually live quite close to me, I live in Fairhaven.
Goddammit I hate my state for shit like this.
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[release]TAUNTON, Mass. —
A Taunton father is outraged after his 8-year-old son was sent home from school and required to undergo a psychological evaluation after drawing a stick-figure picture of Jesus on the cross.
The father said he got a call earlier this month from Maxham Elementary School informing him that his son, a second-grade student, had created a violent drawing. The image in question depicted a crucified Jesus with Xs covering his eyes to signify that he had died on the cross. The boy wrote his name above the cross.
“As far as I’m concerned, they’re violating his religion,” the incredulous father said.
He requested that his name and his son’s name be withheld from publication to protect the boy.
The student drew the picture shortly after taking a family trip to see the Christmas display at the National Shrine of Our Lady of La Salette, a Christian retreat site. He made the drawing in class after his teacher asked the children to sketch something that reminded them of Christmas, the father said.
“I think what happened is that because he put Xs in the eyes of Jesus, the teacher was alarmed and they told the parents they thought it was violent,” said Toni Saunders, an educational consultant with the Associated Advocacy Center.
Saunders is working with the boy’s parents after a mutual acquaintance referred them to her.
“When I got that call, I was so appalled that I had to do something,” Saunders said.
“They weren’t looking at the fact that this is an 8-year-old child with special needs,” she added. “They made him leave school, and they recommended that a psychiatrist do an evaluation.”
The school, in fact, required the evaluation before the boy could return, the father said.
Maxham School principal Rebecca Couet referred all questions on the matter to the superintendent’s office.
Superintendent Julie Hackett said district policy prevents her from discussing a “confidential matter regarding a student.”
“Generally speaking, we have safety protocols in place,” Hackett said. “If a situation warrants it, we ask for outside safety evaluations if we have particular concerns about a child’s safety. We followed all the protocols in our system.”
Hackett refused to specifically discuss the student’s drawing or the school’s reaction to it.
The father was flabbergasted when he learned his son had to undergo an evaluation.
“When she told me he needed to be psychologically evaluated, I thought she was playing,” he said.
The man said his son, who gets specialized reading and speech instruction at school, has never shown any tendency toward violence.
“He’s never been suspended,” he said. “He’s 8 years old. They overreacted.”
The boy made the drawing and was sent home from school on Dec. 2. He went for the psychological evaluation — at his parents’ expense — the next day and was cleared to return to school the following Monday after the psychological evaluation found nothing to indicate that he posed a threat to himself or others.
The boy, however, was traumatized by the incident, which made going back to school very difficult, the father said. School administrators have approved the father’s request to have the boy transferred to another elementary school in the district.
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This just happened in my city. I used to go to that elementary school. I never thought these bullshit injustices would happen here.
It's absolutely absurd that they thought the picture meant he was going to shoot up his school or some overly dramatic paranoia-fueled bullshit like that. It seems that, every day, the terms "free speech" and "freedom of religion" means less and less in a supposedly "free" country.[/QUOTE]
BP represent
I got my art book taken away in seventh grade for drawing a pencil version of the cold war.
Bitch was crazy
My friend and I used to run around with little paper pistols skipping class in third grade and we never got in trouble. Hell, in 5th grade we made little rubber band guns and shot shit at each other during recess. What has happened to the schools lately? I mean really, it's like everyone has gone and shoved their head so far up their ass they're inside out.
My friend Tim just last year was sent to a counselor for drawing an emo kid and was told he wasn't allowed to draw them anymore. It's fucking oppression man, he's an amazing artist.
Blame Call of Duty.
but seriously that is fucking harsh, shouldn't have done anything about it
When I was eight I drew armies of stick figures blowing each other's brains out with various guns, and I'm okay now (I think).
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[QUOTE=westbro;19019248]Ok, so apparently we have the story wrong.
The kid drew a picture of a stick figure on a cross with X's for eyes showing that it was dead. Then, the teacher asked him what it was and he said "me." Which is why he got a psychological evaluation. The one saying it is Jesus is the kids dad.
Rate me clocks if I'm late. I skimmed the thread but didn't see anything about this.
They printed a picture of the drawing in the local newspaper, and where that image is cut off at the top in the OP there is a little name in the box. It doesn't say Jesus and presumably it's the kids name.[/QUOTE]
If that's true it changes everything.
I'm way more fucked up than this kid. I can hardly even look at some of the shit I draw.
Though how this kid could be contemplating suicide at 6 I can't imagine.
[QUOTE=Raiskauskone;18993024]-Awesomeness-[/QUOTE]
Damn your school is awesome, back in the second grade, im in 5th now, me and my friends always did the same things. Though we used 'Finger guns' only pistols lol. but in the third grade, we got in trouble for finger guns, we cant even make a finger gun without getting shot up by the school's stupid teachers.
What makes it worse is that today, I drew a picture of a stickfigure Jesus on a cross on a Christmas card... :ohdear: :gonk:
This could only ever happen in America.
[QUOTE=Mr. Clam;19740920]This could only ever happen in America.[/QUOTE]
wow necropost with your first post. way to go, great start.
When i was on the seconds grade only thing i drew was stick figures killing each other, every one did it, it was the "thing" of the time in my school.
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