Arizona School Suspends 13-Year-Old Boy for Drawing Gun

This is completely ridiculous. We have gotten to the point where we are so over-paranoid about everything, that a 13 year old kid has to be suspended from school for drawing a gun, that quite honestly looks like a school bus. This entire country is a mess...
 
I wouldn't suspend him, I'd put him in an art class. *rim shot*
 
Homicidal Cherry53 said:
This is completely ridiculous. We have gotten to the point where we are so over-paranoid about everything, that a 13 year old kid has to be suspended from school for drawing a gun, that quite honestly looks like a school bus. This entire country is a mess...
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I couldn't agree more. What's next, people drawing pictures of swords or knives being suspended?
 
As a dad of a very imaginative boy, all I can say is if I were in the same situation, and the school officials told me they weren't budging on the suspension, I'd just respond with, "Okay. I'm getting an attorney." Drawing detailed pictures of people dying, or guns shooting is one thing. A drawing that can be interpreted many possible ways that was created by a 13 year old kid who obviously has no artistic talent is another deal entirely.
 
Dart said:
Drawing detailed pictures of people dying, or guns shooting is one thing. A drawing that can be interpreted many possible ways that was created by a 13 year old kid who obviously has no artistic talent is another deal entirely.
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Yeah, the article does mention something along those lines.

The drawing did not show blood, bullets, injuries or target any human, the parents said.
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I mean seriously, the drawing doesn't even look that much like a gun, and then you consider that there is no blood, no bullets, no one getting shot, etc. it seems like a huge overreaction on the school's part.
 
yeah, it leads to other kids seeing it, and other kids drawing guns, and everyone seeing guns as 'the right thing'

kids should not draw guns
 
I got called into the principals office my eighth grade year for drawing all kinds of swords and such in my sketch pad, i guess someone found a page that'd fallen out and turned it in, prompting them to call me to the office. They had a 'talk' with me, and I said something to the effect of "If you think I would bring something like these in (they were all rediculously shaped unwieldy swords like Cloud's) you're out of your mind, they're drawings, and I could never even afford them and my mom isn't stupid enough to hand an eighth grader weaponry."

Nothing diciplinary ever came of it.
 
Almost every single thing I drew had swords in it, not to mention LOADS of blood. One of the paintings I did for my Drawing and Painting II class was a picture of the school hallway down to the cafeteria, completely 100% accurate, splattered in blood everywhere. It even had bloody handprints on the walls. Got an A.
 
Alright Hines, let's not have kids draw guns. Just let them go home and shoot them in a video game.
 
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