Gun Drawing = Suspension

[rev214]

Arizona School Suspends 13-Year-Old Boy for Drawing Gun
Wednesday, August 22, 2007





A 13-year-old Arizona student was suspended for sketching this gun.

MESA, Arizona — Officials at an Arizona school suspended a 13-year-old boy for sketching what looked like a gun, saying the action posed a threat to his classmates.
The boy's parents said the drawing was a harmless doodle and school officials overreacted.
"The school made him feel like he committed a crime. They are doing more damage than good," said the boy's mother, Paula Mosteller.
The drawing did not show blood, bullets, injuries or target any human, the parents said. And the East Valley Tribune reported that the boy said he did not intend for the picture to be a threat.
Administrators of Payne Junior High in nearby Chandler suspended the boy on Monday for five days but later reduced it to three days.
The boy's father, Ben Mosteller, said that when he went to the school to discuss his son's punishment, school officials mentioned the seriousness of the issue and talked about the 1999 massacre at Colorado's Columbine High School, where two teenagers shot and killed 12 students, a teacher and themselves. Mosteller said he was offended by the reference.
Chandler district spokesman Terry Locke said the crude sketch was "absolutely considered a threat," and that threatening words or pictures are punishable.

[knight0334]

If you turn it 90' to the left it becomes a building.. How are they not sure thats not what it is???

[Agent Smith]

There's already a thread about it.

http://www.pafoa.org/forum/general-2...r-old-boy.html

[mauser]

This is a duplicate thread, but it highlights something interesting, that's not the same drawing that a different news article has!
It's simular, bit not the same. Here's the drawing from the news article in the other thread:

[ChamberedRound]

This is a duplicate thread, closing. Please continue the discussion in the thread referenced in Agent Smith's post above.

-CR