public schools gone wild (again)
This is ridiculous. The whole series of events must have been very traumatic for the kid. I see no reason why the school could not handle a stick figure drawing on its own. Meet with the parents, meet with the counselor, put the kid in detention if appropriate, etc. The kid did not have a weapon, he did not threaten anyone, he did not otherwise misbehave. It seems the school officials may have done some serious damage here. [IMHO]
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The boy...suffers from Attention Deficit Disorder and was told by his therapist to draw pictures when he feels himself get upset or agitated.
On that day last year, he drew a picture of himself as a stick figure, using a gun to shoot several other stick figure people, his mother said. Above the figures he wrote, "teachers must die" and "music sucks."
"It was what his doctors had told him was the right thing to do," [his mom] said, according to Fox 31 News.
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[His mom] said police refused to let her go with her son, who was put into handcuffs and taken to the station. Once there, the boy was allegedly fingerprinted, photographed and put into a cell.... He was charged with interfering with staff and students at an educational facility, a third degree misdemeanor.
Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/nati...#ixzz1EzZTSOLt
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Originally Posted by SteyrAUG
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