Posted by
Kilroy on Friday, August 24, 2007 11:20:03 AM
MESA, AZ — Officials in Chandler Arizona
handed down a 3 day sentence for a 13-year-old boy whose “offensive drawing posed a threat to other children and the community”.
Alleged drawing of school Actual School
Officials, contending that the drawing (pictured above) is a depiction of Payne Junior High School, claim it is representative of a “pervasive danger that, everyday, causes real harm to the mental and physical well being of our children”. A spokesman for the Chandler district explained that “as everyone is aware, the single biggest threat to our children’s psychological development, financial security, and long term earning potential is exposure to the public education system. For this boy to so callously flash this drawing around is unconscionable” and that the drawing, while crude is “absolutely considered a threat”. There is some disagreement over the nature of the drawing with the boy’s parents claiming that the drawing was a harmless doodle depicting not a school but a gun, and that officials viewed the sketch at the wrong angle and overreacted.
Parents contend drawing is a gun.
The Chandler spokesman, disputing the claim that the drawing is a gun said, “It clearly is NOT a gun, the drawing did not show blood, bullets, or injuries. No, this drawing is clearly meant to depict a public school building. The public education system relegates hundreds of thousands, if not millions, to lives of illiteracy, misery and poverty every year, we simply cannot allow these offenses to go unpunished”.
