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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 wonkey_monkey on Friday August 29 2014, @02:34PM
You seem to be reading a lot into "continued to be disruptive" - i.e., that he was only reasonably disruptive under the circumstances and that handcuffing him and arresting him wasn't warranted.
How do we know he didn't start physically pushing people around, or throwing chairs around the room?
There's a wide range of possible levels of doucebaggery from both the cops and the kid here.
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(Score: 1) by aclarke on Friday August 29 2014, @03:44PM
Throwing chairs around? The guy should be promoted to management!
You're right that I was reading a lot into it. It's conjecture, but it's the most reasonable explanation I personally have after reading the two articles. Doesn't make it true though.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by sjames on Friday August 29 2014, @04:07PM
We can make a good guess that if he had actually pushed anyone or thrown a chair the police would have tried to call it assault. Also, the press would have gleefully detailed it.
(Score: 2) by wonkey_monkey on Friday August 29 2014, @04:14PM
There's no story in "kid gets arrested for perfectly clear reason."
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