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Ariz. school suspends boy
for sketching gun
AP
Thursday Aug 23, 2007
School officials
suspended a 13-year-old boy for sketching what looked like a gun,
saying the action posed a threat to his classmates.
The boy's parents said the drawing was a harmless doodle and school
officials overreacted.
"The school made him feel like he committed a crime. They
are doing more damage than good," said the boy's mother,
Paula Mosteller.
The drawing did not show blood, bullets, injuries or target any
human, the parents said. And the East Valley Tribune reported
that the boy said he didn't intend for the picture to be a threat.
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Administrators of Payne Junior High in nearby Chandler suspended
the boy on Monday for five days but later reduced it to three
days.
The boy's father, Ben Mosteller, said that when he went to the
school to discuss his son's punishment, school officials mentioned
the seriousness of the issue and talked about the massacre at
Colorado's Columbine High School, where two teenagers shot and
killed 12 students, a teacher and themselves in 1999. Mosteller
said he was offended by the reference.
Chandler district spokesman Terry Locke said the crude sketch
was "absolutely considered a threat," and that threatening
words or pictures are punishable.
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