8 Year Old Sent for Evaluation for Drawing a Picture of Crucified Christ & Other Educational Atrocities

NOTE:  Important update at the bottom!

When the schools have procedures that prevent the application of common sense, and administrators have no ability to judge situations on a case-by-case basis, you see nonsense like this…

A Taunton father is outraged after his 8-year-old son was sent home from school and required to undergo a psychological evaluation after drawing a stick-figure picture of Jesus Christ on the cross.

The father said he got a call earlier this month from Maxham Elementary School informing him that his son, a second-grade student, had created a violent drawing. The image in question depicted a crucified Jesus with Xs covering his eyes to signify that he had died on the cross. The boy wrote his name above the cross.

The student drew the picture shortly after taking a family trip to see the Christmas display at the National Shrine of Our Lady of La Salette, a Christian retreat site in Attleboro. He made the drawing in class after his teacher asked the children to sketch something that reminded them of Christmas, the father said.

“When I got that call, I was so appalled that I had to do something,” Saunders said.

“They weren’t looking at the fact that this is an 8-year-old child with special needs,” she added. “They made him leave school, and they recommended that a psychiatrist do an evaluation.”

The school, in fact, required the evaluation before the boy could return, the father said.

Maxham School principal Rebecca Couet referred all questions on the matter to the superintendent’s office.

The man said his son, who gets specialized reading and speech instruction at school, has never shown any tendency toward violence.

“He’s never been suspended,” he said. “He’s 8 years old. They overreacted.”

The boy made the drawing and was sent home from school on Dec. 2. He went for the psychological evaluation — at his parents’ expense — the next day and was cleared to return to school the following Monday after the psychological evaluation found nothing to indicate that he posed a threat to himself or others.

Is it a surprise that there was no threat?

I’m not particularly getting the sense that this was a case of religious persecution, though I might be wrong.  At the very least, a family and child were victimized by school procedures that made no allowance for the fact that the child was drawing a religious symbol that, as such,   had no violent content whatsoever.  I would chalk this up as another reason to keep your kids out of the public schools.

Now for the greater atrocity.

NOTE:  The family friendly part of the post ends here.  Explicit content to follow.

Mr. Pink Eyes at America’s Watchtower discussed a disturbing case of innapropriate content being given as an assignment in another public school.

Earlier this year a Massachusetts school gave its eleven year old students a homework assignment. That assignment was to draw an erect, ejaculating penis. When parents found out about this assignment they protested to no avail. The school board simply did not care about this issue.

Here is a video of a parent testifying about the ejaculating penis assignment.

So then, an 8 year-old draws Christ on the Cross, and he’s sent away to be evaluated, and, in another school, 11year-olds are INSTRUCTED to draw ejaculating penises, and it’s OK?

Still have your kids in the public schools?

UPDATE:

Karen at Eastern Right, has published the following…

It seems that the case of the boy who drew the picture, there’s more to the story than what first appeared:

First, the boy, Jalen, was apparently not suspended.

Second, the drawing did not depict Jesus on the cross, but rather Jalen, the child himself– complete with “dead” (x-ed out) eyes and his name in place of “INRI” on the plaque. This sheds a different light on this story and makes the psychological evaluation seem more reasonable; it’s admittedly a bit disturbing that a kid would draw himself being crucified.

Third, there was apparently no assignment to draw something that reminded the kids of Christmas; Jalen may not have even drawn that picture in school.

Fourth, the picture that the teacher noticed and got concerned over may not have been the same picture that Jalen’s father, Chester Johnson, went to the media with.

Fifth, the father seemed just a little too eager to go to the media with this and even tried to say that this was motivated by racism (Jalen is black), though now he takes that back.

Well, there you have it.   It would appear that the school did have a right to be concerned.   Unlike the left, I will correct the story.

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