How far is too far when it come to school safety?

[mimartin]

Zero-Tolerance on guns includes childs artwork?

Is a drawing of a stick figure person shooting another stick figure person enough to get a seven-year-old suspended from school? Should it be? What if it is labeled? Have we as a society gone too far or is this what is necessary to keep our children safe?

 

If they had this rule when I was in elementary school I may have never been in class.

[adamqd]

I believe in a "Trial By Fire" upbringing, I think Kids should learn from there own mistakes, and not be shielded from real life, But, there IS way too much violence and crime available too them, and the media doesn't help by glorifying such things. Elementary school is somewhere that should try to maintain a certain amount of innocence for kids, so yes, I think it is right to discourage "young" children from drawing or reinacting violent acts.

[Web Rider]

Zero tolerance policies were always a bad idea. They were created by people who wanted to replace human interaction with bureaucracy and paperwork. All instances of guns, be them fake, drawn, or real, should be taken on an individual basis. Students should not be flatly treated like criminals in the making.

[Corinthian]

Wow. I've seen some pretty crazy crap in my time. That may trump my old school's policy of 'contact with a closed fist = suspension.' Maybe. I'm not sure.

[tk102]

Zero tolerance policies were always a bad idea.

I have zero tolerance for zero tolerance too.

[John Galt]

Zero tolerance policies were always a bad idea. They were created by people who wanted to replace human interaction with bureaucracy and paperwork. All instances of guns, be them fake, drawn, or real, should be taken on an individual basis. Students should not be flatly treated like criminals in the making.

 

QFE

 

I think this undermines public perception of the second amendment by villifying firearms from a very early age.

 

I personally have never seen or heard of anything this extreme in my area. My friends and I shopped for hunting rifles in the library one time, and there are still up-to-date issues of hunting magazines, complete with articles on firearms, available for students in the library, and there have been in every Eastern Kentucky high school library I've ever visited. Granted, a friend of mine who carries around issues of magazines featuring military and law enforcement weapons, complete with pictures of (very nice) AR15's on the cover, he gets some strange looks.

[Totenkopf]

Sadly, this isn't the first time I've heard of something in the school system that's so addle brained. I've heard of other stories of kids getting in trouble for artwork or being disciplined for playing war/cowboys & injuns/cops & robbers during recess. The current crop of policy makers are a bunch of ninnies.

 

I have zero tolerance for zero tolerance too.

Amen.

[HIGH ON PIE 14]

Yes sadly in my area this kind of thing is far too common. I went back to visit my old elementary school recently and discovered that cops and robbers was banned as well as dodgeball, touch football and a buch of other harmless things.I never liked that school anyway.

As for that drawing people killing things my high school now has that rule but its so loosely enforced cause even the teachers think its stupid. But really though should we remove pictures from history textbooks because they "glorify" people with guns and skip all wars in history class for the same reason?

 

Bottom line: The Constitution of the U.S. give us the right to bear arms, so why should we not have the right to draw them? Just cause a kid draws weapons does not mean s/he will grow up to be a murderer.

 

Zero tolerance for zero tolerance...heh me too

 

Heres a little somthin for all those morons making those laws. Look Im in high school and look what animations I chose: Oooh Im such a bad person!

[True_Avery]

There was a time when a child would be beaten, set against other children, taught to kill and hunt, and set out into the wild for week, months, years at a time to prove themselves. They grew up to do the same, only the fittest and 'best' surviving to pass on their genes to the next generation. They would be taught what was necessary to live in their society, and those who survived were all seen as equals... even women and slaves to a degree, for they also had their own trials of life and death.

 

Ya know... I sometimes wonder if the Spartans would have died to literally save democracy in Greece, all the way to this very day if they had known we humans would have turned out to be the pathetic excuse for people and parents we are today.

 

I'm sure coddling your children like Barbie dolls, hiding them from the "bad" so they don't become "bad" people will make them grow up to be "perfect" little angels. The plain -fact-, and yes I will say -fact- again, is that the world is not "nice" and eventually it catches up to everybody. You hide people from responsibility by ignoring your own responsibility as a society to your youth simply breeds people into thinking that the world is there to serve them. You serve your world, your society, and your people.

 

Porn, Guns, Violence, Video Games, Sex, Death... You can only hide a person from these things for so long. Some parents may disagree, but they are under the odd delusions that their 16 year old boy/girl is too perfect to have ever browsed around for porn in his/her entire life. Yeah, I'm sure the 18+ button on the sites is really going to stop him/her in the least. I'm sure, with current day media, that taking drawings of guns away from kids is going to make them forget what guns are as we fight a war across the ocean. Many kids may not like it, may not agree with it, but that doesn't top the fact that it is all everywhere.

 

But those teachings seemed to have died a long... long time ago. Well, at least in most first world societies

 

"When an opponent declares, 'I will not come over to your side,' I calmly say, 'Your child belongs to us already... What are you? You will pass on. Your descendants, however, now stand in the new camp. In a short time they will know nothing else but this new community.'"

-Adolf Hitler

 

"I don't see much future for the Americans. It's a decayed country. And they have their racial problem, and the problem of social of social inequalities . . . Everything about the behavior of American society reveals that it's half Judaized, and the other half negrified. How can one expect a State like that to hold together - a country where everything is built on the dollar?"

-Adolf Hitler

 

"Our teachers were absolute tyrants. They had no sympathy with youth; their one object was to stuff our brains and turn us into erudite apes like themselves. If any pupil showed the slightest trace of originality, they persecuted him relentlessly, and the only model pupils whom I have ever got to know have all been failures in life."

-Adolf Hitler

 

"He alone, who owns the youth, gains the future."

-Adolf Hitler

 

Want to protect your youth? Make society and humanity better. In the mean time, hiding them from what society and humanity is currently just doesn't seem right. It is breeding people in a world of lies and delusions of "innocence".

[Corinthian]

You get that little tidbit of history from 300? Bah! Sparta wasn't a democracy. In case you didn't notice, Leonidas was a King. The Spartans were a monarchical state, not a democratic one.

 

And, uh, what's with the Hitler quotes? He's not exactly a great example to point out American decay, considering how morally decrepit he was.

[True_Avery]

You get that little tidbit of history from 300? Bah! Sparta wasn't a democracy. In case you didn't notice, Leonidas was a King. The Spartans were a monarchical state, not a democratic one.

No, I got it from history channel specials on Spartans to disprove many things that the movie had put in place. Bush is our president and he has a council of elders that helps him decide what to do. Honestly, it doesn't sound all that different. We just have a freedom label on it.

 

Leonidas didn't make all decisions, he didn't have complete power. He had to take advise from his councils, from his people, and from the Gods before he decided to do anything. Persia was the true monarchy in that time.

 

 

And, uh, what's with the Hitler quotes? He's not exactly a great example to point out American decay, considering how morally decrepit he was.

Maybe. He may have been morally "wrong" in some people's eyes but he took over Germany and started the largest war in history and nearly won. You don't get to that point without knowing a great deal about how society and people work. Just because someone is morally "wrong" does not make them stupid, it just makes them morally "wrong."

[Corinthian]

You want to can the quotes around 'wrong'? I don't think anyone is going to get offended if you say that slaughtering six million Jews and millions of others is morally 'wrong'.

 

No King has ever had real, true absolute power. But would you consider England to have become a Democratic government following the Magna Carta? The correct answer is No, England was NOT a Democracy after John of England signed it. Leonidas didn't give his life for Democracy, and the Spartans weren't great believers in freedom. They had a massive number of slaves.

[Web Rider]

I have zero tolerance for zero tolerance too.

 

I quite realize the irony of applying an absolute statement when saying aboslutes are bad.

 

In any case, I've yet to see a positive outcome come out of "zero tolerance". Far as I know, the number of events averted ranks low to nill.

[Corinthian]

Hey, since the removal of dynamite gags from cartoons, haven't you noticed your children have stopped playing with explosives?

[Web Rider]

Hey, since the removal of dynamite gags from cartoons, haven't you noticed your children have stopped playing with explosives?

 

So that's why all my TnT hasn't been messed with in the past few years.

 

I dunno, kids who play with dynamite seem to learn real fast.

 

better question: how many people have random sticks of dynamite lying around?

[True_Avery]

You want to can the quotes around 'wrong'? I don't think anyone is going to get offended if you say that slaughtering six million Jews and millions of others is morally 'wrong'.

I don't believe in actual right and wrong. Killing six million jews was short sighted, ignorant, and probably thinking too small. Mostly an idiotic attempt at survival of the fittest. It was morally wrong to some, but morally right to others. But this probably is not the place to debate that.

 

No King has ever had real, true absolute power. But would you consider England to have become a Democratic government following the Magna Carta? The correct answer is No, England was NOT a Democracy after John of England signed it. Leonidas didn't give his life for Democracy, and the Spartans weren't great believers in freedom. They had a massive number of slaves.

The slaves and women, however, were treated as citizens because they all did what they could for the nation as a whole. I could bring up the things I heard in the documentary made by people smarter than both of us combined, but, again, this is probably not the place to debate this topic.

[Corinthian]

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Bah. The History channel is notoriously inaccurate. Take their moronic ones on Medieval Warfare. Ever see them talk about the combat? The weight of the swords? They're idiots. Twenty pound swords? I know more about medieval combat than these idiots.

[True_Avery]

snipped response to flame

 

Bah. The History channel is notoriously inaccurate. Take their moronic ones on Medieval Warfare. Ever see them talk about the combat? The weight of the swords? They're idiots. Twenty pound swords? I know more about medieval combat than these idiots.

I'm not even going to bother explaining to you how incorrect that statement was.

 

I'm done debating with you. Moving on...

[PoiuyWired]

I have zero tolerance for zero tolerance too.

 

QFE

 

Spartans and Gun Control with Schools... a weird combination of topic.

On the side note, we all grow up with cartoons about rabbits running around with TnTs and bombs and guns... and we don't become terrorists either (ignoring the few weridos)

 

We play war with lasertags and water pistols, and how many of us have been in a real firefight? (occupational hazard not withstanding)

 

People should just wake up and get a life.

[SilentScope001]

Sparta is not a democracy. To say so would be stupid. I'd rather that it would be called aristocracy, as the Greeks called themselves. The best form of government, after all. Avoids the tryannical elements of a king while at the same time, avoid the rule by the ignorant mob. Yeah, Sparta is run by a King, but there were elders as well, and I think they had much power as well, making it an aristocracy.

 

Oh, what? Topic? Oh yeah!

 

I actually am in support of this policy. A young kid drawing a violent picture is...well...scary. Writing or drawing anything violent is an indictation that something is wrong with that kid, when combined with other signs, of course. So, I can sympathize with why they did what they did. I may not like it, but it's not the "terrible" thing. The only thing that I am worried about is the censorship of art, but if we can just have an age limit for when it is okay to act out your violent fanasties on paper without fear of suddenly acting on those fanasties in real life, then so be it.

 

*don the flame suits*

[True_Avery]

snipped quote and response to deleted post

 

Sparta is not a democracy. To say so would be stupid. I'd rather that it would be called aristocracy, as the Greeks called themselves. The best form of government, after all. Avoids the tryannical elements of a king while at the same time, avoid the rule by the ignorant mob. Yeah, Sparta is run by a King, but there were elders as well, and I think they had much power as well, making it an aristocracy.

Fair enough. I'll go buy the documentary at the store and re-learn what I've forgotten and maybe come back with a thread later.

 

Sorry for my comment that accidentally took this thread off topic. I will not mention this again in here.

 

I actually am in support of this policy. A young kid drawing a violent picture is...well...scary. Writing or drawing anything violent is an indictation that something is wrong with that kid, when combined with other signs, of course. So, I can sympathize with why they did what they did. I may not like it, but it's not the "terrible" thing. The only thing that I am worried about is the censorship of art, but if we can just have an age limit for when it is okay to act out your violent fanasties on paper without fear of suddenly acting on those fanasties in real life, then so be it.

True, but wouldn't supressing those feelings in a child, supressing that need to act out come back to possibly hurt themselves and others? Violence is indeed not a funny thing for a child to be obsessed with, but outright hiding them from it does not seem to be an answer.

[Corinthian]

Basically, here's True_Avery's post in a nutshell: "Oops, I'm wrong, but to save face, I'm going to act like I was right all along."

 

Don't worry about me being on your ignore list, Avery. I have yet to see you make a post of any real value.

[Det. Bart Lasiter]

[Jae Onasi]

Basically, here's True_Avery's post in a nutshell: "Oops, I'm wrong, but to save face, I'm going to act like I was right all along."

 

Don't worry about me being on your ignore list, Avery. I have yet to see you make a post of any real value.

 

That's far enough, Corinthian. You've earned a warning for flaming.

 

Everyone needs to settle down. It's a thread with some posts in it. In a global society we are absolutely going to have lots of differing opinions and that's OK. Any further flaming by anyone and the thread will get closed.

[mimartin]

As a seven-year-old, I had a fascination with guns. While I have no problem with the concept of zero-tolerance of weapons in our schools I believe taking the rule this far removes an important element from the education system “common sense.”

 

I did find the fact that he labeled the picture a bit disturbing, but not being a Psychologist and not seeing the picture in question does not allow me to make an informed decision. He said it is a water gun, most 7 year-olds I know are not the greatest liars, but again without seeing him I cannot pass any judgment. Perhaps having a professional talk to him would be of more help than suspending him.

 

I drew soldiers shooting each other as a child; I drew sharks ripping people apart. I was honest in my original post, I would have never been allowed in school if they had the rule when I was that age. I wouldn’t say I was then or am now a violent person, I’d just say I had an active imagination and liked to draw. I also liked westerns, war movies and Jaws, so I drew what I saw.

 

How are we supposed to teach our children the importance of common sense when the adults in their life refuse to show any?