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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.
The assignment was to write a personal story, not fiction.
The assignment was to write a Facebook status. I've seen far goofier Facebook posts.
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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.
How do you ever cross a street? The odds are far, far, far higher that you will get hit by a car than this kid killing someone.
And yet when a kid brings a gun to school and shoots up other students, you guys act shocked and confused on why this wasn't caught sooner.
Joking about getting business done with a gun isn't a funny joke. This isn't anything about being a police state, this is about understanding that we have a gun problem in our schools and it isn't good to overlook potential warning signs anymore.
You have taken the story completely out of context just like the school did.
Are you really that scared of a story written about the neighbors dinosaur? You know, that extinct animal that hasn't existed in how many decades?
Why couldn't the school take that opportunity to talk about guns and gun safety?
Why did the teacher have to overreact and miss this opportunity to actually teach something useful instead of teaching a child that he is not allowed to make up a story even though he was told to make up a story.
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.
Seeing this wasn't a fictional writing assignment, but it is a fact you guys seem to ignore. I would rather have the schools get involved in something that turns out to be nothing than to have them miss warning signs that turn out to be deadly.
Seeing this wasn't a fictional writing assignment, but it is a fact you guys seem to ignore. I would rather have the schools get involved in something that turns out to be nothing than to have them miss warning signs that turn out to be deadly.
Uh - what's that? It was a fictional writing assignment. Just posted an article by the Post and Courier (our local newspaper here in Chs) that quotes the school as saying it was a creative writing assignment. Psst- creative writing = fiction.
You have taken the story completely out of context just like the school did.
Are you really that scared of a story written about the neighbors dinosaur? You know, that extinct animal that hasn't existed in how many decades?
Why couldn't the school take that opportunity to talk about guns and gun safety?
Why did the teacher have to overreact and miss this opportunity to actually teach something useful instead of teaching a child that he is not allowed to make up a story even though he was told to make up a story.
No, I would prefer we catch warning signs that could help prevent school shootings. We don't know this child so it is impossible to say if he was a problem child or not or if this is something that he could potentially do in the future.
Uh - what's that? It was a fictional writing assignment. Just posted an article by the Post and Courier (our local newspaper here in Chs) that quotes the school as saying it was a creative writing assignment. Psst- creative writing = fiction.
It was an assignment writing about oneself in a Facebook post, not a fictional writing assignment based on what the article stated.
You would have to ask the teacher what the guidelines for the assignment were.
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