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Hmmm....looks like Principal Karen Martin has deactivated her email.I wonder how she'd react if people were to send (non-threatening) pictures of guns to the school via mail? Say, that's a pretty ferocious looking panther in their school logo--fangs bared and all... I guess the message is, animals with weapons are good, people with weapons are bad.
I don't know what the big deal about children drawing guns is. I used to do it all the time.
I think you're overreacting here a bit David. It's not the doodle of the gun, but the fact that the kid drew it with the safety off!!!
ReplyDeleteYou gun nuts want to arm school kids with assault doodles!
Assault Doodles. Heh.
ReplyDeleteJust in case they deactivate the school address link:
ReplyDeletePayne Jr. High
7655 S. Higley Road
Queen Creek, AZ 85242
It wasn't the gun, it was the smiley faces - you're not supposed to actually like guns! That must have gotten her liberal panties in a big 'ol wad...
ReplyDelete> I wonder how she'd react if people were to send (non-threatening) pictures of guns to the school via mail?
ReplyDeleteHmmm, an all-JavaScript website that doesn't degrade gracefully, and yields a blank screen when JavaScript is disabled. Strike one.
> To learn more about our administration please click any of the links below.
I'm guessing no-one's going to "learn more" by clicking on "file://" links. Strike two. However, by putting two and two together and coming up with this valid page, and observing the construction of the e-mail address there....do you suppose Principal Karen Martin's e-mail address could be in the form of firstname-dot-lastname-at?
(To confirm it, go here; then scroll down to "Email Test", type that address into the text box, and click on the 'Mail Test' button. The result you're looking for is "[Successful connect: Got a good response [250 Ok]".)
Mark Odell
I would get into so much trouble if I grew up in Zero Tolerance land.
ReplyDeleteWhen I was in school 12 years ago, I (gasp) carried a swiss army knife, toenail clippers, large pointy scissors, and worst of all, me and a friend used to (the horror) draw strange shapes and challenge the other to draw a gun out of that shape. Not to mention the robots covered with guns, or the various war games played out on paper (drawings with tanks, artillery, solidiers) that were "killed" when hit.
Gunstar, I'm right there with you. Pocketknives, gun drawings, robots and jets covered in guns...hell, my highschool often had rigs with rifles in them parked in the lot during hunting season. After all, folks wanted to head out right after school.
ReplyDeleteAs for this particular drawing, I hardly realized it was a gun at first. If the kid had claimed it was something else, I wonder if he would've been in any trouble (not that I'm saying he should have).
After school and chores we would get our single shot .22's and head for the fields. Two or three kids, 10,11,12 year olds walking down the street with our rifles over our shoulders and back again with jackrabbits for Mom to clean and cook was not out of the ordinary.
ReplyDeleteThis was in California, in the middle of town, and people would wave at us and say "good luck".
Now, my grandkids can only go to the range with me, about an hour away. The pressure to close the range is heavy.
WHY!
Mr. McManus, your comment reminded me of this...
ReplyDeleteMy 4 year old daughter was sitting on my lap as a browsed this post. She pointed to the picture and said "daddy, tht's a funny looking house". I assure you that she knows what a gun looks like.
ReplyDeleteHowever, I bet if the kid drew a picture of a coat hanger abortion that would be OK by the schools standards. One has to watch out for those gun pictures if one of the other kids drew some bullets and they put the pictures together someone could have been killed.
ReplyDeleteDon't worry, with some basic HTML knowledge you can bring this critters to the light.
ReplyDeleteBelow is the email and page for the Principal. Let her know how you feel about her Goebbels tactics.
http://ww2.chandler.k12.az.us/payne-jrhigh/k%20martin.html