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Old 08-21-2014, 12:25 PM
 
Location: Portland, Oregon
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Good god - it was a CREATIVE writing assignment. You know what else creative writing is called? Fiction.
The teacher didn't sound like it was meant to be a fictional writing assignment.
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Old 08-21-2014, 12:26 PM
 
Location: Santa Monica
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You would have to ask the teacher what the guidelines for the assignment were.
No.

I'm asking YOU if all Facebook "statuses" are non-fiction?

Cuz if so, I need to know how one is currently "big pimpin'".
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Old 08-21-2014, 12:28 PM
 
Location: Meggett, SC
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The teacher didn't sound like it was meant to be a fictional writing assignment.
And that whole dinosaur part isn't giving you the hint it was a fictional piece?
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Old 08-21-2014, 12:34 PM
 
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All I want to know is Godzilla still in Japan or is he swimming to Ca. and expected to reach San Diego ? Did the kid in his story shoot just once and where is shot placement more effective. Was he subjected to massive amounts of Japanese movies ? Where was the thought police who could have been effective before he got it all down on paper ?

To many failures in the system of failures. Every Creative brain needs a good karate chop. Now get back in your seat and write about flowers you brute.
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Old 08-21-2014, 12:41 PM
 
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A 16 year old high school student in South Carolina was suspended and arrested for writing a story about shooting a dinosaur. The teacher saw the word gun, freaked, and police were called to search his locker for a gun. He was arrested and charged with disorderly conduct, and has a 1 week suspension from school. Good grief.

High school student says he was arrested for killing dinosaur in - NBC12.com - Richmond, VA News
the article notes "continued to be disruptive" so arrested.

Get off the jump to conclusion Matt, for one instant. . .


just go to proves when it comes to police, be calm, careful, polite


don't be a dick


your an irate dick, you get arrested
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Old 08-21-2014, 12:43 PM
 
Location: Old Mother Idaho
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Yeah, because joking about shooting a non-existent dinosaur is a serious threat....

Give me a break. I don't blame the school for looking in to the situation, but if he was punished for it, that is completely asinine. This is what you get when you spread fear of an inanimate object..... insanity.
According to police Chief Rogers, it wasn't the student's post that got him arrested, it was his disruption.

I see a lot of mistakes that were made here.
The kid is a kid. In a perfect world, he would have made it more obvious he was writing about a fictional event, but since he was a kid, he failed to make the dinosaur mention clear enough.

The teacher over-reacted, and so did the kid. And then the cops over-reacted and then, the kid's mom. There was a bunch of CYA on all sides, too much.

Who's to blame? Personally, I blame the school principal, the single official who could have stopped it on all sides.
I also think that a few apologies would quickly end this kerfuffle, but they don't seem to be forthcoming.
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Old 08-21-2014, 12:52 PM
 
Location: Foot of the Rockies
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The list is endless of those who wrote really dark stuff. A lot of it worth a lot of money today.

It's crazy that one guy in Colorado writes some negative stuff and we think the answer is to stop the other 2 million kids writing dark stories.

I have to think that Stephen King likely wrote some dark stuff as a high school student. He should have been arrested I guess and forced to understand that doing things like this is simply not acceptable.
2 million kids? I thought it was just the one!?
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Old 08-21-2014, 12:56 PM
 
Location: North America
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A 16 year old high school student in South Carolina was suspended and arrested for writing a story about shooting a dinosaur. The teacher saw the word gun, freaked, and police were called to search his locker for a gun. He was arrested and charged with disorderly conduct, and has a 1 week suspension from school. Good grief.

High school student says he was arrested for killing dinosaur in - NBC12.com - Richmond, VA News

No, he was arrested for disorderly conduct, not for writing he killed his neighbor's pet dinosaur, and he bought a gun for taking care of the business.

Summerville police officials say Stone's book bag and locker were searched on Tuesday, and a gun was not found. According to police, when Stone was asked by school officials about the comment written on the assignment, he became "very irate" and said it was a joke.

A Summerville Police Department report states that Stone continued to be disruptive and was placed in handcuffs, and was told that he was being detained for disturbing schools.

With people walking into schools with guns and offing kids, I can see how a teacher would be concerned with the kid's language.
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Old 08-21-2014, 01:01 PM
 
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Seeing this wasn't a fictional writing assignment, but it is a fact you guys seem to ignore.
It was to write a Facebook post. That can be anything.

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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.
When will we find the time to teach kids to read?
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Old 08-21-2014, 01:08 PM
 
Location: Gone
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No, he was arrested for disorderly conduct, not for writing he killed his neighbor's pet dinosaur, and he bought a gun for taking care of the business.

Summerville police officials say Stone's book bag and locker were searched on Tuesday, and a gun was not found. According to police, when Stone was asked by school officials about the comment written on the assignment, he became "very irate" and said it was a joke.

A Summerville Police Department report states that Stone continued to be disruptive and was placed in handcuffs, and was told that he was being detained for disturbing schools.

With people walking into schools with guns and offing kids, I can see how a teacher would be concerned with the kid's language.
If they had done that to me in school I would have been in the same boat and would have taught everyone some words my parents told me not to use. When confronted by the pure stupidity of the entire affair many people would simply lose it, I do not blame the kid one bit.

Now for the important questions:

What kind of Dinosaur was it?

What caliber of gun did he use?

Did he sit in a blind, his room or was he stalk it?

Did he go for a head, lung or heart shot?

Did he get it with one shot or did he have to track it and shoot it again?

Enquiring Minds want to know.

He is going to be laughing his arse off one day when he is selling books faster than he can write them
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