School Overacted

[Taz_Zoee]

I think schools (and just people in general sometimes) over react to things like this. The boy is 8 years old for goodness sake!!! He was asked to draw something and then gets in trouble for it.

[phesina]

I especially like this bit:

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Superintendent Julie Hackett said she could not discuss an individual student and did not address the drawing specifically or the teacher's reaction to it, but did say the school has safety protocols in place that were followed.
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SAFETY protocols? What on earth did she think she was keeping (him? the other students? herself?) safe from?

What utter nonsense. The boy had just been to visit the shrine with figures of Jesus all over the place, and he no doubt knows that Christmas is the day Jesus was born. So he's asked to draw something that reminds him of the holiday, and he draws Jesus! And this is symptomatic of psychological disorder? Such that he is now excluded from the other kids?

[momcat]

This PC nonsense has gone way too far! Who did this kid offend? Who did he put in danger? What does "safety protocol" have to do with this? The teacher told the kids to draw something, apparently teacher didn't tell them what to draw. But it doesn't matter, this school, like too many others, go out of their way to find something offensive in everything.

[Karen]

It's just silly. The La Sallette lights are so pretty, and must have seemed magical for a child. And all Catholic children know that Jesus died on the cross, and I am betting he has been to Cathechism. And even if he's not Catholic, the La Sallette shrine is, so there's plenty of religious imagery.

[sparks19]

Yep it's totally ridiculous. That kid didn't put ANYONE in danger but they have totally hurt that child but they don't seem to care. "we have to think about the children" what about THAT child?

[Lady's Human]

It's not just freedom OF religion.....it's freedom FROM religion.

Lines right up with the school district in CT which the official greeting during the holidays is "Happy winter"

[Freedom]

Overreacting? Understatement!

[Alysser]

Schools overreacting? NEVER! I thought my school was bad. My teacher got warned for allowing us to watch FREE WILLY last year, FREE WILLY, because there was a "harpoon" in it or something dumb. We're not allowed to wear hats in school. A girl also got in trouble for bringing in a hair straightner, it's dangerous apparently, uhh what? I might as well not breathe while I'm at it.

That's absolutely ridiculious. I am not a religious person, but if his family is that's their choice. He did the assignment in a way he saw fit, there's nothing wrong with it. A physcological evaluation??? What in the hell is wrong with these people. If I were those parents I'd transfer my kid so he didn't have to deal with that BS ever again. Wow.