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Thread ID: 10834 | Posts: 6 | Started: 2003-10-30
2003-10-30 06:39 | User Profile
** [url]http://www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=35341[/url]
Student suspended for 'patriotic' drawing Son of Navy man depicted soldier blowing away Taliban fighter
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A "patriotic" stick-figure drawing of a U.S. Marine blowing away a Taliban fighter earned a 14-year-old schoolboy a five-day suspension.
Scott Switzer, of Colts Neck, N.J., whose father and stepfather serve in the military, was sent home last week from Tinton Falls Middle School after a teacher saw the image on a computer and described it to the principal, the New York Post reported.
New Jersey student Scott Switzer with drawing (Photo: Thomas Hinton, New York Post)
"He's been punished for the drawing," said Tinton Falls school superintendent Leonard Kelpsh, according to the Post. "We felt it was highly inappropriate, and we took it very seriously."
Switzer insists the discipline was unjust.
"Truth be told, it's a Marine shooting a terrorist Taliban," he told the New York paper. "It's just a picture. What upsets me most is that the principal would dare say it's not normal. To me, it's patriotic."
Family members told the Post Switzer had been suspended before and was involved in three "minor" incidents.
The teen suffers from attention deficit disorder, according to his stepmother, Kim Switzer.
He lives with his stepmother and father, a Navy engineer in the Persian Gulf. His stepfather serves in the Army.
School officials might have lowered their tolerance, Scott indicated, because of a previous incident in which other students drew a "very Columbine-ish" picture, the Post said.
Scott's drawing raised concern, according to officials, because they feared it referred to another student who might be a potential target.
The New York paper said, however, the sketch was deemed benign by a local psychologist who examined Scott.
"I don't attribute pathological significance to it," Dr. Gloria Tillman, a psychologist who treated the boy for ADD, told the Post.
"I have to wonder what is expected of our children today when 1) our country is at war and 2) both his father and stepfather are out fighting the war."
Scott said although he recognized the concern for safety, he was offended by the officials' characterization of the drawing as "not the work of a normal mind."
"Truth be told, I'm more upset that he'd insinuate that I'm mentally unstable," he told the Post. "I'm the class clown. I'm not a bully." **
For crying out loud! I remember having to deal with similar kinds of :dung: in school because of my extensive knowledge into military history and all my teachers thought I was mentally ill or something. I'm telling you, the god damn hippies are running our schools! :angry:
2003-10-30 17:00 | User Profile
[QUOTE=perun1201]For crying out loud! I remember having to deal with similar kinds of :dung: in school because of my extensive knowledge into military history and all my teachers thought I was mentally ill or something. I'm telling you, the god damn hippies are running our schools! :angry:[/QUOTE]
I guess they thought you were supposed to be interested in MTV like a good consumer unit. That young fella is already condemned to a psychiatric institution: the education system.
2003-10-30 17:13 | User Profile
[QUOTE=na Gaeil is gile]I guess they thought you were supposed to be interested in MTV like a good consumer unit. [/QUOTE]
Yeah really! Kids idiolizing Black criminals(aka gangsta rappers) is totally normal, it's just teenage rebellion. A kid taking an interest in military history and idolizing great honourable warriors of the past, oh no thats just not "normal".
Teacher: "We're a little concerned over little Jimmy there. You see, he knows who won the Battle of Flodden Hill in 1513. Thats a sign he might go crazy and start a school shooting."
Side Note: The English under the Earl of Surrey defeated the Scottish army under King James at Flodden Hill. [url]http://www.thenortheast.fsnet.co.uk/Battle%20of%20Flodden%20Field.htm[/url]
That young fella is already condemned to a psychiatric institution: the education system.
Would explain the constant headaches I had during classes.
2003-10-30 19:24 | User Profile
I wonder how much pro-war, pro-ZOG, rah-rah USA propaganda they were being fed in this same school.
2003-10-31 00:53 | User Profile
Apparently it's okay to kill lots of Arabs in real life -- that's for Holy Israel, after all, and the more the better. But drawing crude stick figure pictures of it makes you an official psycho.
Hmmm, what could the difference be? Let's see:
1:Drawing pictures of soldiers using guns against Arabs (like he sees every night on the news) must mean the kid isn't afraid of icky, nasty firearms, the way MTV says he should be. Bad for The Chosen!
2:Killing [I]real[/I] Arabs in mass quantities, when ordered by your betters. Good for The Chosen!
They hate us for our Freedom and Democracy, y'know.
2003-10-31 13:09 | User Profile
[QUOTE=perun1201]
"I don't attribute pathological significance to it," Dr. Gloria Tillman, a psychologist who treated the boy for ADD, told the Post. [/QUOTE]
I'm sure she probably has at least three prescriptions for Ritalin waiting for him.