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OH MY F*ING GOD!!!

I'd have to see the pic.  Sounds like the teacher overreacted, but it may depend on the area.

I know kids aren't allowed to draw guns or weapons in schools anymore.

Why are you bringing me into this, Crispen?

If it was, it would suck.


Get it? 

The teacher only followed the training the school district spent good money on.

Is that a good thing or a bad thing?

No matter the subject matter it is artistic expression. Until it becomes something more then let him be. He wasn't hurting anyone. Even if they find nothing wrong with the testing the boy will be branded. This could have more last effect than just a test or two.

Really?  I've generally understood that involved parents tend to trump the effects of these images and most studies have failed to show any truly convincing evidence of this.

Now, kids raised on TV with violent images and no involved parents to teach them right from wrong, that's a different story.  But, again, that has more to do with the parents than the imagery.

Now, I'm not saying you should just let kids have violence as a part of their every day life, nor am I saying that parenting solves everything, because it doesn't, and even the best parents can only do so much.  However, there is more at play than simply the imagery.

I will say, I missed that it was simply testing for that morning, and had thought it went beyond that.  Given it was that minor, I don't think it's too bad, but I still think it's easy to get oversensitive about some things.

I was referring to uninvolved parents, and parents that don't really care what kinds of games their kids play, or movies they watch, and even who their kids hang out with, and parents that aren't teaching kids right from wrong.

I agree with Crispen. How are we to know if this kid in question falls into that category or not, if he isn't evaluated a little?

Isn't that a little late?  It's difficult to correct behavior that has gotten to the point of actually hurting people or animals. 

If red is the local gang color and they tell all the kids NO RED, and inform the parents, I've got no problem with it. 

Jenna was a little town, it had all kinds of Race and Gang problems.  (See the Jenna 6 thread)

Where do I draw the line?  I try to be reasonable.  I volunteer, with the Local Family Shelter and those kids have had it very rough, telling one of them they could not ware red might send them off in tears, or start a fight.  They don't have the correct social skills for handling conflict.  So if I see one Hugging a sibling to hurt them (and I have), I merely interact diverting attention away form hurting and 'Play' with the children giving them a role model and once they talk to me, I talk to them and we share values and they learn.  But I'm digressing.  I mean to say people don't just Hurt others, they build up to it, and if one pays attention they can see it before it gets to the action stage.  It is way easier the help a person who hasn't yet learned to like hurting people or animals.  Where do I draw the line?  There's no line, I always move people away from pointless violence, away from hate, away from substances or ideas that steal their intellect, and move them toward Family, toward God, toward Truth, and Open Minded Critical Thinking.