student arrested for threaten dinosaur

[evilfarmer]

http://m.nbc12.com/nbc12/pm_/content...id=od:91FCoNZn


A student was ARRESTED for saying in an assignment he got a gun to take care of business and shot his neoghbors dinosaur. The school treated this as a credible threat even though the assignment was ment to be creative writing. This is just getting insane.

[anakhouri]

My kid is going to be expelled someday for sure then. He's 5 and yesterday he wrote a story about how shadow demons came and killed a worker (in an unspecified manner) in Willy Wonka's chocolate factory so they could take his place and send out possessed candy to all the stores in a bid to take over the world.

A few years back I was working a signing by RA Salvatore and this kid and his dad (kid was maybe 11 or 12) came through the line and told Salvatore how this kid had been suspended from school for writing a story about people fighting zombies. Salvatore (and me, and probably anyone else who overheard) was absolutely appalled.

[Aethian]

My kid is going to be expelled someday for sure then. He's 5 and yesterday he wrote a story about how shadow demons came and killed a worker (in an unspecified manner) in Willy Wonka's chocolate factory so they could take his place and send out possessed candy to all the stores in a bid to take over the world.

1. I would buy that ebook. I love the idea.

2. What's next we talk about a nightmare and get lethal injection?

[Kheldarson]

1. I would buy that ebook. I love the idea.

2. What's next we talk about a nightmare and get lethal injection?

1. Same here

2. No, we're going to start doing mandatory therapy ala "Psycho Pass"

[AmbrosiaWriter]

I wrote a story one time about a girl whose step father beat her, her mother (who loved to create beautiful gowns and outfits for her daughter) had passed away, and the step father would lock the girl in the attic when she "misbehaved." In the attic was an oil painting of dragons that she loved to look at and escape from the pain, and one day she fell through it INTO the world... a world where humans were all corrupt and self serving, yet she was not.

I got dragged into the school's counselor's office where I had to endure question after question about my home life until my creative writing teacher stormed in in a rage.

"YOU'RE GOING TO MAKE HER TERRIFIED OF BEING CREATIVE WITH HER WRITING!!!! SHE'S THE BEST WRITER I'VE SEEN IN THIS SCHOOL SINCE I BEGAN WORKING HERE."

God that was a fun argument to watch.

[KabeRinnaul]

You'd think someone would realize you were essentially recreating the basic plot of The Magician's Nephew on your own.

(except with a different magic gateway and falling into a world of evil instead of a world of good, but whatever)

[cindybubbles]

This is getting insane. You have people arresting people for even mentioning guns, yet when we try to take away those guns from people who would actually use them for violence, the gun lobbies raise a huge stink.

You can't win either way. If we make everyone take a psychological assessment before purchasing a gun, that would anger a lot of people. Yet, on the flip side, we'll have people arresting/suspending others for holding a banana the wrong way.

[DGoddess]

My kid is going to be expelled someday for sure then. He's 5 and yesterday he wrote a story about how shadow demons came and killed a worker (in an unspecified manner) in Willy Wonka's chocolate factory so they could take his place and send out possessed candy to all the stores in a bid to take over the world.

A few years back I was working a signing by RA Salvatore and this kid and his dad (kid was maybe 11 or 12) came through the line and told Salvatore how this kid had been suspended from school for writing a story about people fighting zombies. Salvatore (and me, and probably anyone else who overheard) was absolutely appalled.

I'm surprised I didn't get kicked out of HS back in the 80s for some of the stuff I came up with.

Of course there's going to be guns in my stories - standard for spies to carry around. Not to mention the intriguing gadgetry. And as for humor - when you find yourself getting an A on a creative writing assignment where you have two teenaged sisters joking about getting together for a lesbian tryst and NOT get in trouble over it.

Those were the days my friends. Now you can't allow kids to have imagination without restrictions. There's too much paranoia and too much comformity.

[Bloodsoul]

I can still recall getting in some trouble (or at least "concern") for printing out the typed intro from the game Strife: Quest for the Sigil.

[MadMike]

Zero Intelligence strikes again.

Looking back now at some of the assignments I turned in when I was in school -- and got good grades on , if I were in school today, I constantly be in trouble. One assignment that comes to mind was something I did for Spanish class. It was right before Christmas time, and the teacher gave us the Spanish version of "Jingle Bells", and had us write our own version. I made mine about me shooting some guy who broke into my house and tried to steal my beer. I don't think the teacher really cared for my warped sense of humor, but she was impressed with how I written it, and even wrote it out on the board for the rest of the class. Can you imagine if someone had turned in an assignment like that today?

I'm almost waiting for the schools to start installing "independent thought alarms" like in that one Simpsons episode.

[cindybubbles]

Since people can't take away our guns, nor can they take away our freedom of speech, it seems that they have resorted to trying to take away our freedom of thought.

[anakhouri]

Kurt Vonnegut saw this coming some time ago; we'll all need devices in our heads that make horrific noises every time we try to think.