Kid suspended for using his imagination

[Mr. Mensch]

A little boy is in trouble for a picture he drew as part of a school assignment.
Second grader Kody Smith was assigned to go outside, look at the cloudshttp://images.intellitxt.com/ast/adTypes/icon1.png (http://thepoliticalforums.com/#), and then use his imagination to draw what he saw.
"Draw a picture of what you see in the clouds from your imagination and that picture is a gun,” explained 8-year-old Kody.
Because it was a gun, the teacher at Talbott Elementary in Widefield called him into the office, and then filed a behavior report. His parents say that's too much.
“It hurts. It hurts that he was so scared for being penalized for his imagination,” said Kody’s fatherhttp://images.intellitxt.com/ast/adTypes/icon1.png (http://thepoliticalforums.com/#), Jeff Smith.
“He’s 8 years old. He was doing exactly what he was told to do for the assignment,” said Kody’s mother, Angel Rivers.
The report says Kody showed behavior that is disruptive to the entire learninghttp://images.intellitxt.com/ast/adTypes/icon1.png (http://thepoliticalforums.com/#) community. The parents were worried that this would be on his permanent school record. The Widefield School District says it will not be.

http://www.kktv.com/home/headlines/Gun-Picture-Gets-Boy-in-Trouble-260059701.html

So now even thinking of a gun is punishable? Thanks left wing assholes. You have totally fucked up a generation of kids.

[darroll]

If I was in school, I would spend my whole time suspended.

[Cthulhu]

It is quite possible he is learning more in his suspension then he ever did inside the classroom. I learn much more out of class than I ever did in class.

[Mr. Mensch]

It is quite possible he is learning more in his suspension then he ever did inside the classroom. I learn much more out of class than I ever did in class.


He probably learned that when someone asks you what you are thinking, lie about it.

[1751_Texan]

Everytime...I mean everytime, a school official or teacher screws up, it's a leftwing asshole behind it. Man, we need to ban left wingers from public education.

[Matty]

Everytime...I mean everytime, a school official or teacher screws up, it's a leftwing asshole behind it. Man, we need to ban left wingers from public education.
You are correct.

[Mr. Mensch]

Everytime...I mean everytime, a school official or teacher screws up, it's a leftwing asshole behind it. Man, we need to ban left wingers from public education.


Good to see you are finally catching on. There may be hope for you people after all.

[darroll]

If the kid would of seen naked women in most clouds, they would of branded him a sex maniac.

Does that be a good trait?
Who knows?

[Perianne]

If the kid would of seen naked women in most clouds, they would of branded him a sex maniac.


HA! Little Johnnie jokes.

[darroll]

Maybe I can find a gun and a babe?

[Dark Mistress]

Anyone else have kiddos in school? At the beginning of EVERY year you have to sign the school's ZERO TOLERANCE policy when it comes to guns. This covers pretty much anything-toy guys, things that look like guns, or could be used as a weapon. They have really STRETCHED this policy in cases like this.

[zelmo1234]

Well if you think about it! Guns are walking down the street shooting people all by themselves as it is!

How much longer until pictures of guns start doing the same.

What he should have drawn is two gay people kissing each other? He would have gotten honors for that

[Dr. Who]

It seems as though hysteria has set in with some people and that is never a good thing. Hysterical reactions have throughout history resulted in injustice.

[Guerilla]

This goes for guns as well as drug or gang references. This isn't anything new as far as I can remember.

If you drew a three or five pointed crown you could get in trouble, if you wrote 13 or 14 in roman numerals you could get in trouble, if you wear the wrong color shoes/shoelaces you could get in trouble, too much of one color on your shirt, would all get you in trouble because they were related to gangs in the area. Drawing drug references like a weed leaf or drawing people doing drugs would get you in trouble. Guns were just another thing on the list. They would always remind people not to draw them in art class.

[Dr. Who]

This goes for guns as well as drug or gang references. This isn't anything new as far as I can remember.

If you drew a three or five pointed crown you could get in trouble, if you wrote 13 or 14 in roman numerals you could get in trouble, if you wear the wrong color shoes/shoelaces you could get in trouble, too much of one color on your shirt, would all get you in trouble because they were related to gangs in the area. Drawing drug references like a weed leaf or drawing people doing drugs would get you in trouble. Guns were just another thing on the list. They would always remind people not to draw them in art class.
I guess because I'm older that was never my experience, but then again we may have been more self-censoring in my day. It was a given that you didn't endorse the drug culture in art class. However, I don't think that any teacher would have batted an eyelash if someone described a cloud as looking like a gun. In my day they didn't try to sublimate a child's imagination because it wasn't politically correct.

[Montoya]

The kid what what he deserved. No child of that age should even be thinking about a gun.

[zelmo1234]

The kid what what he deserved. No child of that age should even be thinking about a gun.

Where I am from kids that age are hunting with guns

Like I said he should have drawn 2 friutcups making out, he would have gotten honors.

What I think it is time for? Parents should start visiting these teachers and beating the living shit out of them, and all testifying that nothing happened?

[sachem]

Assuming that is true and all the facts have been given, it is ridiculous.

[Mr. Mensch]

The kid what what he deserved. No child of that age should even be thinking about a gun.

Stupid liberal statement

[Mr. Mensch]

Assuming that is true and all the facts have been given, it is ridiculous.

What are you? A lawyer or something?

[Mainecoons]

Stupid liberal statement

Stupid and incorrect. 22 years old is not a kid. I'd been handling and shooting firearms safely for 10 years by that age.