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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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 29 2014, @11:52PM
I've experienced this first hand in middle school. Another student was constantly bothering me during an in-class assignment despite me repeatedly telling him to stop. The key part of the conversation went something like:
"I'll punch you."
"That won't kill me."
"But the poison will."
The teacher heard this and I was dragged to the principal's office. The principal was sympathetic, but he said he had to punish me due to the No Tolerance policy, so I got a one-day suspension (which was mind-boggling to me because it meant I'd get in trouble if I went to school and didn't skip class; why would you use a punishment that punishes the good kids and rewards the bad ones?).
Anyhow, later the other student and I became pretty good friends and I got through school without another incident, graduating high school as the valedictorian.