11 year old arrested for stick figures arvada

[newracer]

I am not saying it it right but drawing war scenes is a lot different that drawing yourself killing your teacher.

[rondog]

Not trying to bash LEO's, but LEO's wonder why people bash them and then they do this shit.....whatever happened to common sense? Don't cops nowadays know right from wrong? Is that not a requirement anymore?

[BushMasterBoy]

The moral of the story is you have to protect yourself from the government. If the police are involved, hire a lawyer.

[FromMyColdDeadHand]

I say this and couldn't believe it. What the article I read didn't explain is how they went from dismissing it to the police showing up at his house? Did a teacher or admin rat him out or something?

When did we all get on the crazy bus, I want off?

We need to de-elect or fire anyone that had anything to do with this from the teacher, to the principal, to the school board to the sheriff.

At what age do you tell your kids to stop talking to cops? I've been looking for a way to tell my naive wife not to talk to cops or let them in the house. I think I found the perfect story to frame the issue.

[Geology Rocks]

I am not saying it it right but drawing war scenes is a lot different that drawing yourself killing your teacher.

I agree..this is the only thing that brought that to the next level. I talked with my wife, who is a school teacher. she said if he just drew the drawing with a gun thats fine. However when the kid drew other students and the teacher thats what caused them to bring it to this level. when it involves people the kid has access too it makes it a different situation.

joe

[FromMyColdDeadHand]

I am not saying it it right but drawing war scenes is a lot different that drawing yourself killing your teacher.

I agree, let's make sure he is repressing his anger till he's taking pics of himself with his Glock wearing a red thong. Should his therapist have told him only to draw nice pictures when was enraged?

And where the hell is that kids art teacher? Those drawings are horrible and show no training what so ever. The composition is all wrong, the colors are rudimentary and where is the depth and context? Public education. Crap, if I'm going to jail, I'm at least putting big assed jugs on the teacher.

ADD, notice he was in treatment for ADD. Never let your kids get labelled with this. They tried to do this with my son, and I had to admit I thought he was actually possesed by a demon - but he got better- no drugs or Holy Water involved. Boys are boys. You get them diagnosed with ADD or one of the alphabet soups of modern psycho BS and they become second class citizens, marginalized, pigeonholed and drugged up.

So this kid gets in trouble for drawing some stick figures with guns, when violent images and games are all around us. Brilliant!

[weirjf]

I agree..this is the only thing that brought that to the next level. I talked with my wife, who is a school teacher. she said if he just drew the drawing with a gun thats fine. However when the kid drew other students and the teacher thats what caused them to bring it to this level. when it involves people the kid has access too it makes it a different situation.

joe

This

Hauling him away in cuffs is going over board but a kid drawing a shooting involving his teacher requires follow-up. This gets ignored and the kid gets his hands on daddy's gun and kills people; the parents won't get into trouble... everyone who saw the picture would. The kid is in therapy and drawing violent stick figures makes him "feel calmer"? This kid goes to my kid's school and kills people after they saw this picture and hell would be riding along with me to the school.

[ChunkyMonkey]

Yes, because by reading an article and watching news you are qualified to judge this kid. I have done the exact thing when I was young. I liked to blow stuffs up too.

It has been proven over and over again the best intervention on youths' behavior problems are through their parents and family members. This is why most child therapists play distance roll and encourage the parents to do 99% of the work. Scare tactic does not work.

My .02

[hip55]

This guy would have overreacted and hauled him away in cuffs -



This guy would have gave him a ride home and talked to his folks -



We need more Andys and less Barneys IMO.

[StagLefty]

If people saw some of the things I draw/did when I was a youngster nowadays... I'd be on death row...

^ This. I guess it's illegal to be a kid nowadays.