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WCSC reported that a South Carolina High School student was arrested and suspended after writing about killing a dinosaur using a gun in a class assignment. Attorney David Aylor, who is representing 16-year-old Alex Stone, said his client's arrest over a creative writing assignment was "completely absurd," and is seeking to appeal the suspension. "Students were asked to write about themselves and a creative Facebook status update – just days into the new school year – and my client was arrested and suspended after a school assignment."
Stone said he and his classmates were told in class to write a few sentences about themselves, and a "status" as if it was a Facebook page. Stone said in his "status" he wrote a fictional story that involved the words "gun" and "take care of business."
"I killed my neighbor's pet dinosaur, and, then, in the next status I said I bought the gun to take care of the business"
“I could understand if they made him rewrite it because he did have ‘gun’ in it. But a pet dinosaur?” said his mother Karen Gray. “I mean first of all, we don’t have dinosaurs anymore. Second of all, he’s not even old enough to buy a gun.”
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(Score: 3, Insightful) by deathlyslow on Friday August 29 2014, @01:56PM
As a resident of SC. I would just like to apologize for some of the stupidity that happens in my fair state. We are not all backwoods rednecks or uber conservative Bible thumping zealots. Many of us are fair minded moderates. I fear for the kids in this state.
(Score: 1) by Username on Friday August 29 2014, @02:26PM
I’m pretty sure if the teachers were backwood conservative rednecks they would have congratulated this teenager, gave him a free AR-15, and took a photo over the dead dinosaur to prove that evolution doesn’t exist. But no, sadly they were more than likely liberal douchebags who hate anyone and anything gun related.
(Score: 2) by tibman on Friday August 29 2014, @05:16PM
Wait, now i'm confused. Who are the good guys and who should i be distancing myself from?
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(Score: 2) by bucc5062 on Friday August 29 2014, @02:59PM
I feel like I wrote this while sleep walking for it would be almost verbatim from my own mind. Amazing. As to Username, I fear he represents the more typical SC citizen which I unfortunately run into more often than I like.
The more things change, the more they look the same
(Score: 3, Funny) by Tork on Friday August 29 2014, @03:45PM
As a resident of a superior, yet still amusing at times, state let me assure you that Florida and Texas are keeping the attention off you.
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(Score: 1) by J053 on Saturday August 30 2014, @12:17AM