In Massachusetts an 8 year-old was suspended for drawing a crucifix at school.
It was offensive.
The Taunton Gazette reported:
A Taunton father is outraged after his 8-year-old son was sent home from school and required to undergo a psychological evaluation after drawing a stick-figure picture of Jesus Christ on the cross.
The father said he got a call earlier this month from Maxham Elementary School informing him that his son, a second-grade student, had created a violent drawing. The image in question depicted a crucified Jesus with Xs covering his eyes to signify that he had died on the cross. The boy wrote his name above the cross.
“As far as I’m concerned, they’re violating his religion,” the incredulous father said.
He requested that his name and his son’s name be withheld from publication to protect the boy.
The student drew the picture shortly after taking a family trip to see the Christmas display at the National Shrine of Our Lady of La Salette, a Christian retreat site in Attleboro. He made the drawing in class after his teacher asked the children to sketch something that reminded them of Christmas, the father said.
But GLSEN books promoting sex between first graders are promoted, of course.
More… Founding Bloggers has video here.
December 15th, 2009 | 7:15 pm | #1
It makes perfect dissonant liberal sense: an amoral, secular gub’mint school which tolerates everything can’t be expected to tolerate Christian symbolism during a class assignment about Christmas.
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December 15th, 2009 | 7:17 pm | #2
From the land Bawney Fwank
December 15th, 2009 | 7:20 pm | #3
At some point it needs to be driven into the thick skulls ( or thin budgets ) of educators what ‘Congress shall make no laws’ means…. with the right to freely practice one’s religion any place they choose being the first one specified.
December 15th, 2009 | 7:21 pm | #4
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December 15th, 2009 | 7:40 pm | #5
Be careful with this story, it states that the boy was drawing himself on the cross with Xs where the eyes should be. That is the reason for the evaluation.
I love this blog, you bring a lot to light that will not see the light in the MSM, but you have to read the whole story on things like this.
December 15th, 2009 | 7:49 pm | #6
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December 15th, 2009 | 8:03 pm | #7
this has got to stop
December 15th, 2009 | 8:03 pm | #8
Just freakin unbelievable….that’s what it is….and YES, I read the whole thing.
God Bless this child…and I’ll say a prayer for the incredibly misguided adult who made this unbelievable decision.
The child did exactly as he was asked, and for that he’s sent to a shrink? I’m thinking somebody needs to seek help, but it’s not the child.
December 15th, 2009 | 8:04 pm | #9
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December 15th, 2009 | 8:12 pm | #10
I think I know why they got so mad. He drew the wrong Messiah.
http://directorblue.blogspot.com/2009/12/holiday-artwork-o-day.html
December 15th, 2009 | 8:35 pm | #11
I wonder what they would have done if a Muslim drew a picture of Mohammed with little girls in his bedroom……
December 15th, 2009 | 8:48 pm | #12
Silly little boy!!! If only he’d brought a gun or some crack to school, they probably wouldn’t have gotten as upset!!
December 15th, 2009 | 8:57 pm | #13
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December 15th, 2009 | 9:21 pm | #14
As I posted on this Blog earlier today. Liberism targets the removal of GOD in all forms from society to facilitate the breakdown of the society. The try at saying it was the youth on the cross is a poor grab at a straw to save thier own butt. Keep the heat up, we are winning. We surround them.
December 15th, 2009 | 9:28 pm | #15
Chisum –> I think I know why they got so mad. He drew the wrong Messiah.
You’re exactly correct. The people who sent this child home should be the ones to have a “psychological evaluation” and then FIRED !!!
December 15th, 2009 | 9:32 pm | #16
Related from Atlas Shrugs: Public School Second Graders Sing About Allah?
(snip) Here’s what the children were assigned to sing:
“Allah is God, we recall at dawn,
Praying ‘til night during Ramadan
At this joyful time we pray happiness for you,
Allah be with you all your life through.”
But when it came time to perform the “Christian” part of Christmas, children were assigned to say:
“I didn’t know there was a little boy at the manger. What child is this?
I’m not sure if there was a little boy or not.
Then why did you paint one on your nativity window?
I just thought if there was a little boy, I’d like to know exactly what he (sic) say.
http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/2009/12/public-school-second-graders-sing-about-allah.html
As a girl, I was taught about the persecution of Christians in ancient Rome and about persecution of Jews throughout time and was taught that there would be a resurgence of the persecution of both but I didn’t think I would see it in my lifetime. At 45 years old, I see I was wrong. It’s unbelievable to me how much this country has changed in the last few decades.
December 15th, 2009 | 9:43 pm | #17
This is probably not an anti-Christian issue as much as it is an issue of the incompetence of the public school system in dealing with child discipline and the potential threat of violence. Administrators don’t know what to do, so they enact draconian zero-tolerance (i.e. zero brain usage) policies that punish kindergarten kids for having a butter knife in their lunchbox. God forbid I would have grown up in a school like that, because I drew a lot of pictures when I was a kid, and many of those pictures were far more disturbing than what this kid created.
Don’t be afraid to let children express a dark or unpleasant emotion. It doesn’t mean they are going to kill anyone, and it doesn’t even mean they need counseling. Otherwise, every artist in Hollywood would have to be locked up in the asylum. This knee-jerk “everyone should just be happy and safe and stocked up with condoms” approach to child-rearing has got to go.
December 15th, 2009 | 10:08 pm | #18
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December 15th, 2009 | 10:31 pm | #19
Whoever made the decision to suspend the kid should be prosecuted to the max for child molestation, minimum sentence of 8-15 years.
December 15th, 2009 | 10:41 pm | #20
Public (government) school seems to be incapable of appreciating, understanding or simply respecting a Biblical faith. I’d like to know how much time any of the teachers or administrators involved in this travesty spent personally studying the Bible in the last year. To them, a devout Jew or Christian way of thinking is virtually alien.
In a word, government schooling is unhealthy.
Best regards, Peter Warner.
December 15th, 2009 | 11:32 pm | #21
Society now peers through a kaleidoscope eye,
hoping to one day see,
the truth as a lie.
Dammit, I forgot how to haiku! (come to think of it, I never knew in the first place…)
Let me tell you, if I were a kid today in one of these elementary schools, I would draw a picture of Santa, holding Jesus, carrying a cross, a bible, and a gun, all while littering on Al Gore’s front lawn. Might get me the death penalty but sure would be fun…
The nut-jobs in my home state surely all flew over the coo-coo’s nest.
Goodnight America.
Nathan R. Jessup
http://www.the-raw-deal.com
December 16th, 2009 | 2:53 am | #22
This is beyond stupid. If that were my child, I would take them to school the next day and have a nice confrontation with the school principle. Tell them what my child is back in school and this matter purged from their permanent record, else – sue the school plus the teacher and principal separately. Make them get lawyers. We cannot go quietly into the night – we must stand up and be counted. Inundate the school with multiple lawsuits. Make it cost them – else go the home school route and make public education go away. It is not working anyway
December 16th, 2009 | 6:48 am | #23
The school system’s superintendent issued her very unconvincing denial of the teacher/class drawing time assignment and claim to care for the student/family needs as the system’s first priority. She claims that her school system’s protocol, designed to protect the child and family, legitimately processed this teacher’s “discovery” of a “violent” child not by first contacting the parents to resolve any concern privately, but by first notifying all the school system’s employees, teachers, staff, counselors, and administration of the teacher’s judgment that placed a permanent negative mark on the child’s school record, at which point the parent was finally contacted about the “problem”.
December 16th, 2009 | 6:58 am | #24
This has more to do with an overbearing teacher than religious freedom or opression.
The teacher asked the students to draw something about Christmas…. if the teacher or school was anti-Christianity, they would not have asked them to draw about Christmas.
My guess is it’s some sort of “zero tolerance” policy that if a student depicts a dead body or similar, they get referred.
December 16th, 2009 | 7:09 am | #25
James Baldwin
“Inundate the school with multiple lawsuits. Make it cost them”
“THEM” is every tax payer.
Threaten to sue the officials specifically involved, the teacher and every other authority figure involved in the persecution of a 2nd grade child.
You are right to take your case to the school authorities. It would be invaluable to first consult an attorney, at least with the complementary first visit, in order to organize the protest most effectively, to attack on correct grounding and refrain from overstatements.
Parents and tax payers deserve common sense from our public school administration. When all else fails, including public outcry, demand official resignations backed with threat of law suit that the public tax payers will be forced to pay. Given the proper publicity, the public tax payers will force the problematic authorities from office and require “the school system protocol” that BEGINS with a parent-teacher conference before launching a child through the wringer of scrutiny with a prejudiced judgment of “violent” by every member of the school’s authority figures.
Rumors hurt and warp lives, and this 2nd grader is a victim of mental trauma and emotional abuse from the adults in charge. Compound that with the reality that all the school children are going to be affected negatively by the school’s protocol in their relations with each other (specifically to exclude this one child) and subsequent development. That explains the social rationale behind this public education protocol: INDOCTRINATE and force submission via intolerance for IDEA.
December 16th, 2009 | 7:10 am | #26
The response from the school superintendent is fairly firm on what happened. So, is the parent trying to get attention or is the superintendent a liar? From the superintendent’s response…
“It has been reported in media that a student was suspended over drawing a rendering of Jesus Christ on the cross. This report is totally inaccurate, and the student was never suspended. This incident occurred nearly two weeks ago, it was handled appropriately, and the school staff and family had been working together in a cooperative and positive manner.
The drawing published in various media outlets is not the same drawing that was discovered by the teacher. It has not been established whether the drawing was actually completed in school. Contrary to what has been reported, there was no request or assignment by the teacher for students to sketch something that reminded them of Christmas or any religious holiday. The inaccuracies in the original media story have resulted in a great deal of criticism and scrutiny of the system that is unwarranted.”
http://www.necn.com/Boston/New-England/2009/12/15/Taunton-Superintendent-denies/1260931655.html
December 16th, 2009 | 7:25 am | #27
“The drawing published in various media outlets is not the same drawing that was discovered by the teacher. It has not been established whether the drawing was actually completed in school. Contrary to what has been reported, there was no request or assignment by the teacher for students to sketch something that reminded them of Christmas or any religious holiday.”
The school superintendent is denying that art time was given any theme by not stating WHAT subject the teacher assigned.
The “drawing that was discovered by the teacher” is not given any identity beyond “violent”–obviously deemed unacceptable by the school system. No system can legitimately make judgment calls like this without reiterating the rules per student assignment as a disclaimer.
The superintendent denial of the child’s student suspension status did not deny that the child was threatened with suspension.
December 16th, 2009 | 8:00 am | #28
Deanna and Maverick Muse, I saw the story on Fox news this morning in which it was reported that the drawing above isn’t the drawing that got the kid sent home and, like you, I’m not convinced. My skepticism is due mainly because the alleged actual drawing was neither shown nor described. It seems to me that a teacher and school administration trying to defend itself would at the very least describe the alleged violent image that warranted sending the kid home.
December 16th, 2009 | 9:01 am | #29
Funny how ultr far right nut Hoft spins this one. It has been popular amongst the far right in recent times to rail against blacks calling whites racist. This boy is black and his father is calling the people at the school racists.
December 16th, 2009 | 9:08 am | #30
Fugazi,
What spin?
December 16th, 2009 | 9:14 am | #31
He has spun the story to oppose the school. As as far right nut with far right nut followers he could have easily postioned himself against the father.
December 16th, 2009 | 9:21 am | #32
Fugazi,
That’s a non-answer. That’s your opinion.
Your obsessive need to paint Jim and this blog as far right has caused you to rely on your opinion instead of facts.
We aren’t interested in your moronic opinions.
December 16th, 2009 | 9:25 am | #33
My opinion? He tells only a portion of the story. That’s not my opinion, that is fact!
December 16th, 2009 | 9:29 am | #34
So, linking to the original news story is spin?
You can’t read and make up your own mind?
You are a moron!
December 16th, 2009 | 9:29 am | #35
Fugazi, contrary to what the idiots over at PuffHo and DKos have told you to think, conservatives are not okay with racism. If the kid was sent home because he’s black and his drawings were used as an excuse, Hoft is still right to report the story here and the school will find no supporters among this bunch.
December 16th, 2009 | 9:29 am | #36
There is no need for me to paint Hoft anything. He does a good job of that himself.
December 16th, 2009 | 9:32 am | #37
And you do an excellent job of painting yourself as a moron.
Please, start your own blog and dazzle everyone with your brilliance.
December 16th, 2009 | 9:35 am | #38
Auntie Madder,
Fugazi is desperately trying to discredit Jim. Thus the racism charge.
I think he is vying with chris for the dumbest GP poster award.
The only one spinning here is Fugazi.
December 16th, 2009 | 9:39 am | #39
What is PuffHo and dkos? Where do you get the idea that I think conservatives think it is okay to be racist? It is strange the way you people worship Hoft. Hoft did not report the whole story. Since Fox news has created this “fight” between “conservatives” and “liberals” over Christmas he decided to add fuel to that fire. If there was a major race issue currently in the news he would poured his fuel on that side. Wake up folks.
December 16th, 2009 | 9:41 am | #40
Thanks, Chisum. Because of his (il)literacy skills, I’m having a hard time understanding Fugazi’s comments. Thanks for the Illiterate Moron to English translation.
December 16th, 2009 | 9:45 am | #41
Since Fox news has created this “fight” between “conservatives” and “liberals” over Christmas he decided to add fuel to that fire. If there was a major race issue currently in the news he would poured his fuel on that side. Wake up folks.
So, linking to a legitimate news source is “adding fuel to the fire”?
If there was a major race issue….
Here we go with your moronic opinions again. Way to move those goalposts!
There are trolls and then there are really dumb trolls. Guess which one you are?
December 16th, 2009 | 9:49 am | #42
Fugazi, you truly are a moron. I can’t speak for everyone here, but I don’t worship Hoft. In fact, I don’t always agree with him, either, nor do I always agree with those who post comments here. Because this is Hoft’s blog site, however, I don’t find it necessary to always express my disagreement. (For that matter, I don’t find it necessary to comment on every blog post, even those with which I agree.) To me, that would be like going into someone’s living room for the sake of arguing with him/her; it’s unproductive and disrespectful.
You, on the other hand, seem to find it necessary to come to a blog site belonging to a man that you apparently don’t like and never agree with just to post your comments of disagreement. In short, you’re a troll. And a moron.
December 16th, 2009 | 9:49 am | #43
I love how Chisum uses what the far right nuts like to call Chicago style politics. Attack the person, not the issue. Especially alarming is he is attacking a person he knows nothing about. You come so quickly to the conclusion that I am a moron. How did you do this? I made an observation. You certainly can’t prove my observation is incorrect.
December 16th, 2009 | 9:49 am | #44
Auntie Madder,
At Fugazi’s current rate of spin he must resemble a pretzel by now.
December 16th, 2009 | 9:52 am | #45
Never agree with? How would you know if never agree with him? The only alternative type media I consume are those which I think I may have a differnce of opinion with. I like to see what other people are thinking, a different point of view. It would be stupid for me to read a bunch of opion pieces that I agree with. How is that moronic?
December 16th, 2009 | 9:54 am | #46
Spin? You have called me a moron now more than once. That is what people like to call Chicago style politics. Where is the spin? You have not addressed my observation, only me (whom you do not know anything about).
December 16th, 2009 | 9:55 am | #47
Fugazi,
I have read enough of your pathetic comments where you feebly try to undermine Jim to determine that you are a moronic troll. I have given an example for each time I called you a moron.
Prove me wrong. Dazzle us with your brilliance.
Don’t start an argument and then whine when you get one.
December 16th, 2009 | 9:57 am | #48
You have yet to give an example.
December 16th, 2009 | 9:58 am | #49
Fugazi, a good friend of mine once told me that when you find you’re digging yourself into a hole, stop digging. You can’t dig yourself back to the top; if you keep digging, you’ll only end up at the bottom of a deeper hole.
Fugazi, take some good advice and stop digging.
December 16th, 2009 | 10:02 am | #50
Since you seem incapable of reading my previous comments I’ll repost them for you.
So, linking to the original news story is spin?
You can’t read and make up your own mind?
You are a moron!
——————————————–
Since Fox news has created this “fight” between “conservatives” and “liberals” over Christmas he decided to add fuel to that fire. If there was a major race issue currently in the news he would poured his fuel on that side. Wake up folks.
So, linking to a legitimate news source is “adding fuel to the fire”?
If there was a major race issue….
Here we go with your moronic opinions again. Way to move those goalposts!
There are trolls and then there are really dumb trolls. Guess which one you are?
—————————————————
December 16th, 2009 | 10:15 am | #51
How am I digging myself a hole? I don’t get it. Hoft is not showing the whole story. That is a fact. Where is the moronic opinion? You are a zombie follower of Hoft and you are calling me a moron. The school is saying this is not even the picture that they took issue with. They are saying the father is trying to get publicity. Address that. Why did he not show the entire story? Fox news has started the christmas war on its opion shows, not legitimately as part of their news. Please address. These are not my opions dude.
This is maybe the third story i have ever commented on this site. I know the last one was the one where Hoft claimed a “Leftist” threw an object at the Italian PM. I asked the quesiton how does he know it’s a leftist. I was attacked by the commenters. Turns out of course he was not a leftist. Please address. Where am I the moron?
Am I making a tremendous leap in thinking that if this was presented as a white/black issue conservatives would be on the other side?
“You can’t read and make up your own mind?”
I read and made up my mind and was called a moron by you for it. I can recognize spin, read the story and form my own opinion, doesn’t mean it is not spin.
December 16th, 2009 | 10:19 am | #52
I have no clue what you just wrote.
It reads as babble.
December 16th, 2009 | 10:22 am | #53
BTW What does that mean trolls? To me it is an insult to throw at a person who is short that you find ugly.
December 16th, 2009 | 10:28 am | #54
It reads as scar on you!!!!!!!
It reads as “actually you are the moron”!!!!
It reads as “Chisum likes to be part of the group and he/she can come here and have people that are going to take his/her side even when it comes to his/her radical ideas”!!!!!!!
It reads as “Chisum is a zombie follower of Jim Hoft”!!!!!
Of course you can’t address the issues. You can call names. You can call someone a moron when you don’t know the person. If I had to guess I would guess that Chisum is sitting on his/her smelly fat ass patting himself/herself on the back at some go nowhere job, miserable as can be dreading the thought of facing the real world. Just a guess.
December 16th, 2009 | 10:32 am | #55
Chisum
December 16th, 2009 | 10:19 am | #52
Yeah, Chisum. All I’m able to get from its latest posts are “blah blah blahbitty blahbitty blah,” although the indignity and anger are somehow conveyed anyway.
December 16th, 2009 | 10:35 am | #56
Auntie Madder,
I like mustard with my pretzels.
December 16th, 2009 | 10:41 am | #57
Oh look, the moron troll is opining!
Again!
December 16th, 2009 | 10:49 am | #58
O-whining is more like it.
December 16th, 2009 | 12:55 pm | #59
Since Fox news has created this “fight” between “conservatives” and “liberals” over Christmas he decided to add fuel to that fire. If there was a major race issue currently in the news he would poured his fuel on that side. Wake up folks.
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
“IF there was a major………………”
“CURRENTLY in the news”
“HE WOULD OF POURED……………….”
That’s conjecture, troll. YOUR opinion of what Jim MIGHT have said under different circumstances that haven’t happened. That is worse than just your lame opinion. That’s your vivid imagination at work.
Sorry, little feller. Imagination doesn’t substitute for fact in the grown-up world.
You’re the one doing the spinning. I’d suggest that you stop and try to marshall some actual facts before you make an even bigger fool of yourself than you already have.
December 16th, 2009 | 1:03 pm | #60
Am I making a tremendous leap in thinking that if this was presented as a white/black issue conservatives would be on the other side?
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Why, yes you are, troll. You are assuming (or, imagining) that the Conservatives here would automatically support the white “side” over the black. Which – in this case – would mean that we’d support the school. But we don’t. We support the student and his father.
And, btw, don’t you find that your assumptions – vis a vis our supposed Conservative racial bias – are more than a little insulting to the black Conservatives here? Are they “racists”, too, because of their conservatism?
How do you rationalize and defend your racist attitude?
December 16th, 2009 | 1:11 pm | #61
++
the following is literally just a drop in the proverbial bucket as to what has been, is, and will continue going down under the radar in this country (not
to mention Europe & elsewhere), especially under Obama & his IslaMarxist cohorts..
Second Graders Sing About Allah?
[The principal of Lantern Road Elementary School in Fishers, IN, said they were trying to teach inclusiveness through their holiday production. It included references to Christmas, Hanukkah, Ramadan, Las Posadas and Kwanzaa. However, no other deity, other than Allah, was referenced in the show.]
Earth to Dhimmis: it’s not called a “Stealth Jihad” for nothing. *sigh*
Accommodation as an Islamist Political Instrument
much more here..
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December 16th, 2009 | 2:21 pm | #62
Okay, the problem I have with this story is not with this site but with the original reporting. The reporter took the story from the parent without question and apparently didn’t ask the school for their side. If nothing else it was sloppy reporting.
Also, being familiar with 8 year old boys who get in trouble at school…I wonder if this boy told his father it was the picture of the Crucifixion so he wouldn’t know what the real picture was. Or did the parent try to make this something it wasn’t ? Has the boy been in trouble before?… A lot of unasked questions. To a small extent I sympathize with the school. After Columbine and other school violence there has been a tendency to over-react to such things as the drawing in question, which we still haven’t seen. But if this boy had later become involved in some sort of violence would the parent then accuse the school of not catching the possible clues? Is it a sort of damned if you do, damned if you don’t thing?
December 16th, 2009 | 2:28 pm | #63
Maybe parents of that school should get together and protest outside the school and demand some sanity.
December 16th, 2009 | 2:39 pm | #64
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December 16th, 2009 | 10:24 pm | #65
Just one of the reasons I homeschool!
December 17th, 2009 | 12:53 pm | #66
1ST. AMENDMENT!!!!! Angry isn’t the Word.
December 17th, 2009 | 12:54 pm | #67
Teacher should be fired.
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