April 14, 2004

The teachers don't help.

So Mark got in trouble today for saying hell.
Some kid was saying all kinds of shit and cursing like a sailor in class and Mark said what the hell and the teacher caught him so mark got lonely lunch.
It's like time out for older kids.
You sit at a table by yourself near the teachers.
Everyone knows you're in lonely lunch.
I told him to just spend the time having a nice peaceful meal and thinking about stuff.
He said like what and I said, like more pictures that you drew the other day that pissed the teacher off.
A teacher got upset because Mark drew 2 matching pictures or themed pictures, during his free time near the end of class.
One is of the devil and it says come to hell and the other is a godish figure that says come to heaven.
There is nothing wrong with these images.
see for yourself.

Clickable for biggie size.

Now, was or is there anything wrong with these 2 pictures?
I don't see a problem but she told him he had to draw happy things.
Happy things?
Like rainbows and bunnies?
Does anyone honestly think that if a kid just draws rainbows and bunnies that they will grow up to be a happy, normal, well adjusted individual?
What about creativity? What about art and vision?
He got a lonely lunch for these 2 pictures.
A girl in his class was sent to the school psychologist today after turning in her poem on the broad subject of life.
That was the assignment, write a poem about life so this girl wrote a poem about suicide and it's effects.
They sent her to the school shrink.
She now has to spend time with a counselor every week to explore these feelings.
Did the teacher stop and actually read the poem or just assume the girl was going to off herself?
Maybe it was just a general poem. Maybe she knew someone who had.
I doubt any of us will really know because it's highly unlikely that girl is going to write anything serious for school again.
Write something that makes the teacher uncomfy, get sent to the shrink.
Draw something, get sent to lonely lunch for being offensive.