This is total bullshit, welcome to thoughtcrime.
11 year old boy arrested
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Again you are hearing one side, the cops were obviously called by a teacher. Of course the kid has some history probably stemming from bad parenting. After the cops are called if that kid so mach as broke another kids fingernail some parent would have been on the cell the their attorney. This is the society the lawyers created.
Yeah, totally. I can't believe that people are actually trying to defend this action. I hope the boy sues them for wrongful arrest, harasssment and unlawful imprisonment.
Again, you are hearing one side and rendering judgment. You may also have fascist dictator tendencies.
What's more fascist than arresting a boy with a developmental disorder for artwork and not even allowing his parents to accompany him?
Making drawings of shooting and war featuring my most hated teachers is how I spent most of my childhood!
Making drawings of shooting and war featuring my most hated teachers is how I spent most of my childhood!
Is the kid in a special class for developmental disorders? Do you know if the kid has any behavioral history? Do the other kids have a right to go to school and not be bullied or harassed? You dont have all the information yet you render judgement...this makes you a fascist or at least have fascist tendencies.
Well i dont know your history so i cannot comment on that.
His therapist told him to vent his frustrations through drawing! He has ADHD! He didn't show the drawing to anyone, so you can't call it bullying.
So the therapist told the kid to draw. Again, you dont have all the information. Is that sinking in? Because it doesnt seem like it.
What more do you have to know?
I know that is the question an 11 year old would ask.
The doctor's role in this is not an issue, indeed the police might not even have been aware of it.
They arrested him because they were called in by the school and saw the actual picture and believed it was an actual threat made by the kid against the teachers. So NO, it had nothing to do with what he thought, but what he actually expressed.
As such it is their job to react to that perceived threat and prevent the child from carrying it out.
They do not have to wait until all the facts are in, that's the job of the DA and the court system. Indeed the DA upon investigation, interviews and closer inspection of the facts can determine that there is no crime nor a need for this to go to trial, and that happens all the time.
You seem to completely ignore the fact that one purpose of the arrest powers in a case like this is to prevent someone from hurting others while the facts are discovered. As such, and given that picture, it doesn't seem like an unreasonable course of action for the police to take.
I haven't had time to research the outcome of this, but hopefully it turned out to be a false alarm and the kid is fine.
Arthur
I wonder if his parents taught him , they did a good job on their stick figures here...http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9LjqqtJoKAU
Like where do the tides come from?
Lmao:worship:
I can't load video @ work, so I had to go get a text article:
http://www.kdvr.com/news/kdvr-arvad...stick-figure-drawing-20110221,0,7099823.story
And yeah, this wasn't a credible threat, the boy obviously did it just to blow off steam and was throwing it away when the teacher stopped him from doing so...
What the school could have done that would have (yeah) still been an over-reaction, but more effective...and would have satisfied any worries they might have had about safety issues for staff/students...
They (being the school) should have contacted the parents and the therapist first and had a conference about the drawing to see if the boy really was a threat and whether there was even a possibility of him getting his hands on weaponry.
That way they could have avoided involving and upsetting the kid at all, by determining that he's angry, but harmless, and doing due diligence by making sure the child's anger issues are getting worked on with a therapist...so that the boy doesn't become a threat to self/others.
Not that he would have.
It's just really hard for him to sit still and pay attention, so the kid gets frustrated and angry while doing it.
This is to be expected with ADHD-that because it's so hard to pay attention, be quiet, and sit still, the child's going to get frustrated and agitated at times.
When I learned to drive a stick-shift car a few years ago, I wished death on my fellow drivers at the top of my lungs multiple times...I didn't mean it, I was just frustrated, is all...
http://www.kdvr.com/news/kdvr-arvad...stick-figure-drawing-20110221,0,7099823.story
And yeah, this wasn't a credible threat, the boy obviously did it just to blow off steam and was throwing it away when the teacher stopped him from doing so...
What the school could have done that would have (yeah) still been an over-reaction, but more effective...and would have satisfied any worries they might have had about safety issues for staff/students...
They (being the school) should have contacted the parents and the therapist first and had a conference about the drawing to see if the boy really was a threat and whether there was even a possibility of him getting his hands on weaponry.
That way they could have avoided involving and upsetting the kid at all, by determining that he's angry, but harmless, and doing due diligence by making sure the child's anger issues are getting worked on with a therapist...so that the boy doesn't become a threat to self/others.
Not that he would have.
It's just really hard for him to sit still and pay attention, so the kid gets frustrated and angry while doing it.
This is to be expected with ADHD-that because it's so hard to pay attention, be quiet, and sit still, the child's going to get frustrated and agitated at times.
When I learned to drive a stick-shift car a few years ago, I wished death on my fellow drivers at the top of my lungs multiple times...I didn't mean it, I was just frustrated, is all...