In this week’s edition of “PUNISH THE CHILDREN FOR BEING CHILDREN” a young boy in Oregon faces suspension for a stick figure drawing. Take a look at his most hideous and violent crime.
This, according to school officials, is a portrayal of one person shooting another person in the head with a gun.
According to Ryan Weathers, the 6-year old artist who faces school suspension of this drawing, it’s “a wepwesentation of how Amewican vallews of democwacy wiw never take hold in a Muzwim nation.”
But all kidding aside, it looks to me like Mega Man. Large arm cannon. Vacant robotic eyes. You know, if school officials would just spend a little more time watching television and not being narcs, we wouldn’t have problems like this.
I remember when I was in school. I drew and wrote a lot more fucked up shit than that. And there is no doubt in my mind the materials confiscated from me between 6th and 10th grades would have had me expelled as a potential school shooter. My folder of “poetry?” Just all rewritten versions of Nick Cave’s “Murder Ballads” made applicable to people in my school. I would have been SO kicked out. Luckily, there was some kid who wore a trenchcoat around all the time. He received most of the “potential killer” publicity.
Anywho, if you want to know why a 1st grader is being suspended for the above picture, check out the Mail Tribune’s (Oregon) take on it here. And for the love of christ, feel further shame for the system we refer to as “education.”
November 19, 2007 at 2:27 am
I saw this picture and immediately was like, ‘oh, megaman!’
stupid teachers.
on a megaman note:
re-played all the originals this past week (not all the way through, but just for kicks)
1: still great, but hard.
2: the bomb.
3: even better.
4: my personal favorite, but by far the easiest.
5: took me forever to get it. fun, but…
6: yawn. also the characters are lame. yamato man? centaur man?
centaur man?
anyway. no more school shootings, less violence, and more air man.
November 19, 2007 at 10:37 pm
It is undisputed FACT that Mega Man 3 was the best.
Shatraw, I know of a couple of teachers at Hugh C. Williams that would have tried to expell you had they found that book (it rhymes with Mrs. Maiden). Or at least you would have had a meeting with Larry where he called you Shaq and swore at you.
November 20, 2007 at 2:53 am
I dont know about this mega man stuff but I do know a picture of a guy with a roller in his hand and painting someones head black….sooooo.
November 20, 2007 at 6:44 pm
“c’mon shaq-man! get your goddamn act together. you’ve got some much potential and i’ll be damned if you don’t make something of yourself! now listen, i’m a bad father. all my kids are boozehounds…”
those were scary conversations.
November 21, 2007 at 4:33 pm
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November 27, 2007 at 11:53 am
I REMEMBER that trenchcoat kid!
He was blond and sallow and wrote vampire stories (and I’m guessing he cried a lot).
Dude, you smiled too much in high school to be mistaken for a trenchcoat killa’, which is why they NEVER would have expected it. You’re so devious – I now realize I spent four years of my life on the brink of some 6ft tall playstation and Sunoco sub fueled meltdown. I thank you kindly for sparing us all.
January 23, 2008 at 12:41 am
WHAT?? ARE YOU FOR REAL??? WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH DAT SCHOOL hahhahahahahahah DAT IS SOOOOO FUNNY…
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