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Draw a gun, draw a life sentence. What could be fairer?
Teacher files charges vs. kid over gun sketch
A Taunton teacher is pressing criminal charges against a 10-year-old student after she caught the fifth-grader drawing a menacing picture that depicts him, a gun and a figure of her with a “bullet whole” in her head.
But the boy’s furious mother said she plans to fight the charge in court and believes Taunton police and her son’s teacher at the Mulcahey Middle School overreacted to the drawing.
“Bringing charges against a 10-year-old? I’m irate. It’s caused a lot of turmoil to my son,” said Angela Smithson, who has enlisted the help of the American Civil Liberties Union to fight the charge.
The teacher, Karen Boudreau, 44, filed a police report Wednesday after she yanked away from Cullen Smithson a drawing that depicted a girl named “Kailey” as well as a figure named “Mrs. Boudreau,” both with the words “bullet whole” next to them. A stick figure named “ME” is shown next to a gun, according to the report.
Cullen will receive a summons to court to determine if there is enough evidence to proceed with criminal charges, police said.
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Boudreau believed Cullen was angry with her because she forced him to redo math work, according to the report.
The article has a poll asking if schools are going overboard in this kind of thing. I know how I’m voting.
And in other school wackiness, one “communist system” school no longer permits anyone to be a valedictorian.
“according to the report, which indicates that Cullen has unspecified “behavioral issues.”
This line caused me to think what was the rest of the story. I think locking the mom and the kid up for a short time might wake them both up.
Looks like the teacher dropped the ball here and missed a prime opportunity to connect with a child on a meaningful level.The teacher felt threatened and hurt by the drawing and took the reflex reaction of threatening and hurting back at the child, thus the snowball rolls.I think both sides have forgone lifelong lesson, experience, or reward in trade for immediate retribution.
#38, ol waterman,
I think locking the mom and the kid up for a short time might wake them both up.
Lock them up for what? You quote two word from a “report”. You don’t know who wrote the report or made that comment. You don’t know the credentials or qualifications. You have already passed judgment without waiting for any facts.
It is the idiots like you, and this teacher, that has allowed Bush to tear up our Constitution and get away with it. You want to toss someone in jail whether or not they are guilty of anything.
Actually, since you advocate the abandonment of habeas corpus, maybe it should be you locked up to teach you a lesson of why we need to stand by the Constitutional right of innocent until proven guilty.
Psychopathic child , the future is obvious.
#1 Ed
>>[Can you say sic, Mustard? – ed.]
Sure I can. And typically, when someone paraphrases the words of others in writing (or makes them up), they use that term.
You may be ed., ed., but you ain’t no copyeditor.
And btw, that’s MISTER Mustard to you.
#42, Mustard,
C’mon boy, sic ’em. Go get ’em boy, sic ’em.
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Mr. Gawd Almighty said, on June 17th, 2008 at 5:06 am #38, ol waterman,
I think locking the mom and the kid up for a short time might wake them both up.
Lock them up for what? You quote two word from a “report”. You don’t know who wrote the report or made that comment. You don’t know the credentials or qualifications. You have already passed judgment without waiting for any facts.
It is the idiots like you, and this teacher, that has allowed Bush to tear up our Constitution and get away with it. You want to toss someone in jail whether or not they are guilty of anything.
Actually, since you advocate the abandonment of habeas corpus, maybe it should be you locked up to teach you a lesson of why we need to stand by the Constitutional right of innocent until proven guilty.
Actually I was locked up for a short time, That was 35 years ago I have not forgoten it. been behaving myself ever since. My crime Suspected of being suspicious. In those days you could be locked up for up to two weeks just for hanging on the wrong street. The law was eventually found illegal.
#44, ol waternam,
It was most likely found unenforceable because it was challenged under habeas corpus.
I’m sorry you were put through that experience, but at least now others won’t be.