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.

[BushMasterBoy]

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

[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

[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

[weirjf]

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

He was asked to draw his feelings, his feelings were to take a gun and kill teachers. Behavior issues that can be solved by parents are generally caused by those parents in the first place; the crummy hands-off "let the system raise my kids" parenting we see all too often.

Their first reaction was correct; get the story and make sure everyone's kids and the staff are safe with this kid in the school. The follow-up of arresting him was NOT.

Sorry, if I have to choose between being cautious or assuming other people are being good parents... I'll choose caution because I see bad parents every day out in public.

[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.

[TFOGGER]

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.

+100

It's a damn shame common sense is so uncommon...

[henpecked]

Gee I wonder why 9 news doesnt pick this story up???

[Byte Stryke]

I think the family should sue.
Hell, The Reyes Family is and I think this family has a better case