boy sent home from school for a jesus drawing

[Jenn! 918]

ps. jenn I had a weird azz dream about you the other day. why you? NO CLUE

uh oh, that can't be good

can't say i've never had dreams with vjers in them

[Niels Bohr 72]

This kid is a special needs kid who has problems with comprehension anyway.

[Marina-Del 10]

Well, I don't know anything about the family so who knows....

But, if the family is REALLY religious it is possible that they asked the boy at one time or another to imagine what Jesus did for him and to picture himself sacrificing himself for the good/love of mankind (to try to get him to see what a huge deal this act of selflessness was?). I'm not saying that the family told him to imagine crucifying himself! But rather trying for him to imagine the love that Jesus must have felt for him and all of humankind.

Maybe the boy thought he was showing love for the world by putting himself in Jesus' shoes (or umm...naked crucified body), which is the meaning of Christmas afterall.

I don't know!

[Ban Hammer 13,346]

and the kid got crucified for it.

They should have nailed the teacher.

she's a judas anyways.

[Amby 490]

ps. jenn I had a weird azz dream about you the other day. why you? NO CLUE

uh oh, that can't be good

can't say i've never had dreams with vjers in them

do you have yellow walls in your living room and a couch with a bed in it?

[PlatyPius 5]

When I think of Christmas, I always think of Zombie Jesus too.

[one...two...tree 2,762]

He's a special needs child. I'd rather the teacher side with caution if she truly was alarmed than hear about another school tragedy.

This is not the first time in recent years that a Taunton student has been sent home over a drawing. In June 2008, a fifth-grade student was suspended from Mulcahey Middle School for a day after creating a stick figure drawing that appeared to depict him shooting his teacher and a classmate.

http://www.tauntongazette.com/news/x190356...rawing-of-Jesus

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

Stories like this are a dime a dozen and of dubious value.

They give just enough of a deliberately limited context (not enough to fully understand the full picture of what transpired) to stoke a sense of righteous indignation and outrage.

And people here fall for it everytime.

[one...two...tree 2,762]

Stories like this are a dime a dozen and of dubious value.

They give just enough of a deliberately limited context (not enough to fully understand the full picture of what transpired) to stoke a sense of righteous indignation and outrage.

And people here fall for it everytime.

Sensationalism sells...

[Uncle Wally 2]

I'm not surprised that this happened here in Massachusetts. The PC crowd has been trying, with a marked degree of success, to take our schools over for years. As for it being alarming that he substituted himself for Jesus, who cares? He's 8. When I was 8, girls drew rainbows over pink houses with floral curtains in the windows, boys drew guys with bazookas blowing up dinosaurs and helicopters launching missiles at the school. Nobody was sent home.

I'm also not surprised that the family tried to play the race card. I'm sure race had nothing to do with it, but the PC mentality here leads folks to jump to that conclusion prematurely. No sir, it wasn't because your kid is black. It's because his teacher is a self-righteous hippy jack@ss.

Meanwhile, in the same state, it's perfectly OK to teach 12-year olds about fisting and ####### usage (per the thread here about that the other day).

A local school here in western Massachusetts had a big sign up in a window that I noticed a few weeks back: "TO THOSE WHO CELEBRATE: HAPPY THANKSGIVING".

I was glad they put that little disclaimer on there because being thankful and spending time with my family is against my religion and I'd have been offended otherwise.

[Ban Hammer 13,346]

Stories like this are a dime a dozen and of dubious value.

They give just enough of a deliberately limited context (not enough to fully understand the full picture of what transpired) to stoke a sense of righteous indignation and outrage.

And people here fall for it everytime.

Sensationalism sells...

it sure does

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

The whole point of this story is not to inform anyone about anything but to get armchair fist thumpers up in arms about political correctness.

Its aimed specifically at people who already feel a certain way, and want to read stories that play to their preconceptions.

[one...two...tree 2,762]

The whole point of this story is not to inform anyone about anything but to get armchair fist thumpers up in arms about political correctness.

Its aimed specifically at people who already feel a certain way, and want to read stories that play to their preconceptions.

Yep.

[Uncle Wally 2]

It still happened, and it happened because of PC b.s.

[Peikko 1,575]

The whole point of this story is not to inform anyone about anything but to get armchair fist thumpers up in arms about political correctness.

Its aimed specifically at people who already feel a certain way, and want to read stories that play to their preconceptions.

It's beautiful to behold

Edited December 15, 2009 by Madame Cleo