Youth Suspended Over Sketch Of Gun

[Nomad559]

http://www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=57276
A 13-year-old boy has been suspended for three days by an Arizona public school because he sketched a picture that resembled a gun, something school officials said they "absolutely" believed could pose a threat.

According to a report by KPHO-TV in Phoenix, it's not the type of greeting the Mosteller family expected when they moved from Colorado Springs to Chandler, Ariz., a few weeks ago.

"My son is a very good boy," Paul Mosteller told the television station. "He doesn't get into trouble. There was nothing on the paper that would signify that it was a threat of any form."

The principal at Payne Junior High School kept the actual drawing, and officials with the Chandler Unified School District declined to release any information about the situation.

http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2007-08-22-ariz-suspension_N.htm

[hobbit709]

1. I used to draw rockets in school

does that make me a terrorist?

[Dhalgren]

2. If this is all there is to this "incident", then this is absurd.

The US has got to be, collectively, the stupidest country on earth!

[hobbit709]

3. On a good day

I consider about 75% of the population here in the U.S.as candidates for protective restraint. On a bad day I think it's more like 90%.

[dipsydoodle]

4. So if instead

he'd drawn a lottery ticket would they have suspended him for gambling underage ?

[Posteritatis]

5. ... that *resembled* a gun?

So if I drew a circle in class would I be suspended for almost drawing a hand grenade?