ARVADA, Colo. -- An 11-year-old Arvada boy was arrested and hauled away in handcuffs for drawing stick figures in school - something his therapist told him to do.
The boy’s parents say they understand what he did was inappropriate, but are outraged by the way Arvada Police handled the case.
He drew a picture of himself with a gun shooting teachers and captioned it "Teachers must Die". I think arresting him may have been overboard, but some action was certainly called for.
He was instucted by his therapist to do so instead of acting it out or holding it in.
No crime commited. And if everyone was to be jailed for what the drew as sick figures most on this board would be in upper fairplay.
In high school, way back in the early 80's, I played a modern homemade version of dungeons and dragons. One of other players had his character bomb our high school. Guess what that kid is doing today? Teaching at that same high school. I will have to ask him if he ever tells his students about this.
Arvada sounds like more zero tolerance crap.
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