How stupid Is the Government School System Going to Get?

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I remember once in school we were supposed to color and cut out pictures for a train. My best friend at the time labled one of her cars "toys". The teacher thought it was a cute idea and a boy named Ronny was jelous of her creative streak so he wrote "guns" on his car. When he showed it to the teacher she just sighed and shook her head. Today they would have locked down the school and the Ronny would have been sent do a juvinile detention center.

Zero tolerance policies don't work because you would have to hog tie every one up to keep them from going at it hand to hand, remove everything from the rooms so they will have no weapons, and seize up the engines of all the vehicles in the area so they can't use them as weapons. I'm surprised that now one has used a car as a weapon as getting hit be even a Toyota Echo or a Geo Metro hurts a lot. I bet if you had a gunman and a guy in a Ford Crown Victoria the gunman would run as the Crown Vic is harder to stop and can cause more damage. I'm surprised they have School Buses with zero tolerance policies as they are so big and you can shed the body easily by going through something too small for the body.

my bro (neurotypical) draws pictures much more bloody and violent than that

And this is why zero tolerance = zero common sense, people.

I think that we should take some comfort from the fact that this is a news item. Clearly a journalist and an editor have determined that there is sufficient public interest in this story to publish it, and to expose the school's excesses.

This is not typical conduct for the administration of a school--it is exceptional. That does not make it in any way excusable, but it should give us some comfort that it is not the norm.

This should tell you all you need to know about the school:

Ridgewood Special Education Services

Obviously this whole thing is completely insane, but I also wonder what the kid was doing there in the first place. In US schools, kids with autism who are lower-functioning are generally placed in classes of 6 or 8 students in a specialized school, with a fully licensed special education teacher. They're also entitled to manifestation hearings when something like this happens to determine if it's because of the child's disability (in which case, no suspension.) So all this leads me to wonder whether or not the child has actually been diagnosed with autism.

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all he drew was a pathetic stick figure, me and my bro draw works of art 1,000,000,000,000x more Bloodier, Violent and Darker than that. this is an outrage! and besides, the correct way to know if someone is a terrorist is if they have an AK-47 in their locker

I remember in school getting in trouble for drawings OTHER STUDENTS would draw and then give to me.

The collumbine kids ranted about killing people for months on the internet before they did anything. The Virginia tech massacre kid took pictures of other students while they were sleeping and **** like that. It's pretty clear to see the difference between those kids and a stick figure comic. One drawing means nothing, aside from the probability that the teacher is an *** and needs to lighten up. Schools need to be less paranoid.

For two stick figures and a gun? s**t, I drew a picture of a bully decapitated with blood f*****g everywhere when I was in middle school, and I just got sent to the principal's office.

If anything, that guy could actually turn dangerous against himself and others given the stress which is inflicted on him.

The teacher could also probably be a jerk against him. Know an autistic male with the same character traits who was treated in a very patronising and humiliating way at school, and today he is a mental wreck who is living in a fantasy world (he's about 37 years old and is constantly forcing me to persuade him to not end his life).

It's all really tragic.

Charging a 14-year-old with terrorist threats over a stick-figure drawing is about as sane as lighting your hair on fire to see if it burns.

I got suspended for accidentally hitting a teacher aide with a mouse-pad while playing with it. I know how this guy must feel.

My prayers go to the kid and his mom.

When the kids in my school do that, all they get is a ticket to the Student Transition Area. Anyway, it's unfair, and it kind of inhibits free speech. Plus, if you want to arrest a fourteen year old with the supposed capacity of a third grader, it wouldn't be wise. It would get them teased even more...

[quote="Douglas_MacNeill"]I wonder what the school would think of this Irving Berlin classic:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=71smG5d29to[/youtube]

*sings*
Someday I'm going to murder the bugler,
Someday they're going to find him dead:
And then I'll get that other pup,
The guy that wakes the bugler up,
And spend the rest of my life in bed![/quote

If they were anything like a younger teacher where my mom worked, they would ban that song. This teacher thought that all Janis Joplin songs were about drugs, and tried to have them banned, until my mom showed the lyrics had nothing to do with drug use. My mom retired this past June from teaching.

Oh, and as a general answer to the topic's question, extremely idiotic.