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(image courtesy of Robb Allen)Suspension upheld for NY boy over violent drawing
NEW YORK - (AP) -- Acknowledging school violence nationwide, a federal appeals court on Thursday upheld the suspension of a 10-year-old boy for a crayon drawing expressing a desire to blow up his school and its teachers.In the words of Moe Szylak, I'm chokin' on my own rage heah. Ten. Years. Old. And they're treating him like the Ghost of Columbine Past. And it gets even better:
But the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Manhattan was not unanimous in rejecting the First Amendment claims of his parents. Judge Rosemary Pooler said the drawing by the fifth grader at a Montgomery, N.Y., elementary school in Orange County was obviously the work of a class clown.
The 2nd Circuit said the discipline was appropriate particularly because the boy had a history of drawings and writings embracing violence.Let me say this slowly, for the dullards among us: HE. IS. A. GRADE SCHOOL. BOY. They do that. Guns, bombs, tanks, fighter planes; all of these things are the hallmark of young boys growing up. You will no sooner legislate that out of them than you will them locking themselves in the bathroom with the swimsuit issue of Sports Illustrated a few years down the road. Sorry, that's how it is.
The girl who was "petrified" just so happened to have a history of confrontation with this kid, and made it her lot in life to get him in trouble at every turn. Congratulations! You've just created a generation of tattletales, of simpering little Napoleons just itching to exercise the over-inflated reins of power you've handed them. Every kid with the slightest grudge, the tiniest animosity, the merest hint of a tiff even; they're going to have every person who ever wronged them in history in their sights.
Rather than one Big Brother, they're creating a nation of Little Brothers to follow us at every turn...
That is all.
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6 comments:
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These two stories should have blood spurting from your eyes.
New Jersey school bans hugging: http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2012/03/22/reports-new-jersey-middle-school-bans-hugging/
UK school bans "best friends."
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/4203460/Schools-ban-children-making-best-friends.html
His crime was not having yet been assimilated into the public achool meme of unicorns and rainbows. Little boys should be pliable, not militant.
I recommend they read "Raising Cain"
That brings back memories. I got to visit the school psychologist in grade school. For drawing pictures of tanks, planes, and soldiers. In 1975. Goodness, how could I have come up with such "violent" imagery?
Nothing came of it, but I can trace my mistrust of so-called qualified authorities to an early age.
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