8-year-old threatened with expulsion for drawings

[The Straight Story]

SCOTTSDALE, AZ (CBS5) -

A couple pulled their sons out of Scottsdale Country Day School last week because they said the headmaster threatened to expel their 8-year-old for drawing "highly disturbing" pictures.

"In this situation, it's actually the principal of the school who bullied the parents - so much that we couldn't even be safe in that environment," said Jeff, whose last name we're omitting to protect the identities of his children.

The three images in question depict a soldier, a ninja and a Star Wars character - possibilities for the 8-year-old's Halloween costume.

Each of the drawings show the character holding either a gun or a knife.

....

Many of the third-grader's other journal entries were about saving the earth and protecting humanity.

In one passage, he wrote he'd like the ability to stop an atom bomb and stop bullets.

But Jeff said the headmaster told him he couldn't guarantee the safety of other students with his son around.

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[Enrique]

1. Political correctness run amok!!!!!!!!

there, now everyone on this thread and in all these threads, give this same response over and over.

[rrneck]

2. Oh for fucks sake. ntt

[surrealAmerican]

3. Those look like fairly ordinary drawings from an eight-year-old.

Is this a private school?

[Nay]

4. Oh, for god's sake. If schools keep acting like this, it's no wonder the

RW finds it so easy to take them apart. Does anyone even know anything anymore? I can't believe educators are this stupid.

On second thought, since RWers have infiltrated the schools and school boards, has anyone ever investigated whether this sort of nonsense is being done deliberately by RWers who wish to destroy the credibility of the school system? Wouldn't surprise me.

[digonswine]

5. This is a classic Fox news technique-

Yeah I know it's not them.

Schools do not keep acting like this. Any dumbfuck can find an example of a person behaving poorly-it casts no light on an entire portion of society.

They take one little thing and make it seem like an epidemic-this is how stupid takes hold

[Posteritatis]

6. What an utterly idiotic policy, and what an utterly idiotic headmaster. (nt)

[aikoaiko]

7. I think its a public charter school trying to sound private.

Like Phoenix Country Day School.

[Dr. Strange]

8. If the Star Wars character was JarJar Binks...

then the kid deserved to be expelled.

[Initech]

9. Can we please challenge these idiotic zero tolerance policies before SCOTUS and end this madness?