8th grader suspended for gun doodle

Tumbleweed · Black Ops Joined: 02 Jul 2007 Posts: 3687 votes: 3

This is going to far. People are getting too paranoid.

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QUEEN CREEK, Ariz., Aug. 23 (UPI) -- An eighth-grader has been suspended from his Maricopa County school for doodling a picture of a gun on an assignment, the Arizona Republic reported Thursday.

The decision to suspend the Payne Junior High student for three days for sketching the gun has caused some parents to question the Chandler Unified School District's definition of what actions and words constitute a "threat."

"I understand the zero-tolerance policy, but this is taking it a little too far. It's just a drawing. My daughter draws," Rob DeMarco said about his seventh-grader.

Susan Rethoret of Queen Creek agreed, "They overreacted."

But Tom Hendrickson of Chandler chalks the suspension up to an increase in concern regarding school security.

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trivium666fan · Posted: Thu Aug 23, 2007 1:03 pm Post subject:

I draw constantly. I have actually drawn guns on some assignments. All I was told was that some teachers won't accept work with doodles on them, so that I should stop the habit, but if I liked drawing so much to carry around a notepad. Honestly, this is overreacting. Suspending someone for drawing is like sueing the "Home Alone" movie producers for promoting braking and entering through their movie cover.
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CHUQ · Posted: Fri Aug 24, 2007 2:40 am Post subject:

Maricopa County? Is not that where the sheriff is a real prick to everyone? If so, then sounds about average for that prick!
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