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That would upset me also. I could see being very sarcastic over something like this as a student. "Seriously, my neighbor doesn't have a dinosaur, do you want to come over and have a look for yourself"?
What if the neighbor had a large dog that the kid always referred to it as being a dinosaur? Which the kid wasn't asked to write something fictional and decided to write a joke that caused him some backlash.
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A vast generalization based on nothing more than trying to dig your way out of a hole. What exactly has "you guys" said in the past?
There was no warning sign unless some of the students are dinosaurs. There aren't monsters under every bed.
While i agree it was an overreaction, kids do tend to use fictional creatures to describe real people or things when they are mad. Its a way of expressing one's self without naming anyone in particular.
Urbanlife78, huh? Do you realize the correlation with life in urban areas and gang related shootings? Didn't 9/11, in fact most terrorist plots, occur in urban areas?
Just to be on the safe side, let's call a SWAT team to your house and put you in Guantanmo, Mr. Urbanlife. If that IS your real name or just what the other jihadists and narco-terrorists call you.
Huh? What are you going on about? Try and stay on topic, and almost no one in this site goes by their actual name, unless your name is ABQConvict.
Interesting story. I can remember writing stories in school for lit assignments that were...action /adventure oriented. Weapons of all kinds were central to the themes. Its just the kind of writing I liked to do. Somewhere in the story, there was going to be a fight, or several. My teacher never freaked out and called the cops. Always got As on my writing from her.
Firearms, blades, sci fi weapons like plasma rifles, all kinds of weapons were in my stories.. Nothing subliminal about it. Certainly not a reason to call the police. I gather that the 1st amendment does not apply to 16 yo students? Being as they can be arrested for writing a story, that seems to be the case.
Only stories about beautiful, utopian harmony, cultural diversity, and "tolerance" for various darlings of progressive thought, will be accepted. Anything with weapons, self reliance, and "incorrect thinking" is punishable by arrest. This is what we have come to. Sad....
The assignment was to write a personal story, not fiction.
In all likelihood, this kid decided to have some fun with the assignment.
Now let's just say a few weeks from now, this kid decides to become the next mass schools shooter. His paper would likely be uncovered during the investigation that would follow. How many would then say it was an early warning of what was to come and blame the school for not taking it seriously.
Schools are a reflection of the students, families and communities they serve.
And we will likely never know all the sides to this story.
Well this thread is ridiculous, and you are welcome to not read it. It doesn't change the fact that we have way too many school shootings these days and teachers shouldn't overlook potential warning signs.
My 12 yr old son writes all the time about hunting or gun ownership and we've never had the cops come kick our door in. Don't expect it in the future either.
The attorney representing a 16-year-old Summerville High School student arrested at school on Tuesday is asserting his client's arrest and suspension stem from a fictional story about a dinosaur the student wrote as part of a school assignment.
Attorney David Aylor, in a news release issued Thursday, said his client's parents are "perplexed and disappointed" over their son's suspension and arrest in connection with a creative writing assignment.
"My client wrote about a fictional story that involved a neighbor's dinosaur and a gun," Aylor said in the statement. "The arrest of my client is completely absurd."
What if the neighbor had a large dog that the kid always referred to it as being a dinosaur? Which the kid wasn't asked to write something fictional and decided to write a joke that caused him some backlash.
Maybe we should have a school full of Mr Hand's to come over and babysit every kid? I might have even wrote a story as a kid about offing the neighbors barking dog. So what?
What other type's of stories will cause you to send the police to a students house over? There goes the creative writing class.
While i agree it was an overreaction, kids do tend to use fictional creatures to describe real people or things when they are mad. Its a way of expressing one's self without naming anyone in particular.
I don't necessarily disagree with that, but isn't expressing it in fiction better than acting out? Sometimes when you're p***ed off you need an outlet, or you may just go off the deep end.
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