Drawing can be a violent act... if you are in first grade.

ScubaSigGuy · Post by **ScubaSigGuy** » Sat Nov 17, 2007 7:56 pm

Oregon First-Grader Suspended From School After Violent Drawing
Saturday, November 17, 2007

NEW YORK â€” A first-grade Oregon student was suspended after drawing a picture depicting one stick figure pointing a gun at another.

Click here to read the full report in the Mail Tribune.

Douglas Weathers, the boy's father, told the Mail Tribune that the drawing was harmless, and that 6-year-old Ryan was punished merely for copying something he had seen on an episode of "The Simpsons" TV show.

The disciplinary report given to Ryan's parents listed the reason behind the suspension as a threat to "shoot two girls in the head," the father told the Mail Tribune.

School officials declined to comment to the paper, saying they could not by state law discuss actions against specific students.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,312061,00.html

There is a link to a longer version on the website

doghouse · Post by **doghouse** » Sat Nov 17, 2007 8:19 pm

I guess soon enough kids wont be able to play cops and robbers??? Glad I don't live in that state.

Turfspanker · Post by **Turfspanker** » Sat Nov 17, 2007 8:46 pm

doghouse wrote:Glad I don't live in that state.

I left it over thirty years ago and based on the drawings I did in grade school, they would have kicked me out by now anyway.

But there is a difference in the influences between my generation and the ones growing up today. Kids are growing up with "South Park" and "The Simpsons". The influences today are much more graphic than 60's era comic books and cartoons.

Piney · Post by **Piney** » Sat Nov 17, 2007 10:28 pm

Turfspanker wrote:
doghouse wrote:Glad I don't live in that state.
*snip*The influences today are much more graphic than 60's era comic books and cartoons.

More graphic than WonderWoman and Sue Storm ?

*showing my age here*

srothstein · Post by **srothstein** » Sat Nov 17, 2007 10:44 pm

Piney wrote:More graphic than WonderWoman and Sue Storm ? *showing my age here*

Your age? I was trying to think of any more graphic violence than the Roadrunner and Wiley E. Coyote, and many other cartoons of that era. How many times did Elmer Fudd get shot hunting Bugs? What about Quick Draw McGraw?

And for those that are not into violence involving firearms and explosives, how about the Batman tv series?

mr surveyor · Post by **mr surveyor** » Sat Nov 17, 2007 11:32 pm

srothstein wrote:
Piney wrote:More graphic than WonderWoman and Sue Storm ? *showing my age here*
Your age? I was trying to think of any more graphic violence than the Roadrunner and Wiley E. Coyote, and many other cartoons of that era. How many times did Elmer Fudd get shot hunting Bugs? What about Quick Draw McGraw?

And for those that are not into violence involving firearms and explosives, how about the Batman tv series?

I have also wondered about the "violence" in our cartoons of the 50's and 60's. Every one of them showed the characters getting blasted, whacked, blown up, etc. BUT, there is apparantly a big difference in the psycological effect of seeing these actions take place in 2D animation and the same in 3D animation. About the same time the 3D graphice became the trend, and cartoons moved more into the 80's style of mini-movies (normally villianizing the corporate structure, capitalism, and most everything else that has kept America strong), there seemed to be a marked change in children's attitudes and general behavioural patterns. And, stretch it into the 3D graphics of video games. You never saw Elmer Fudd bleed, of for that matter you rarely saw any indication of blood in the Gun Smoke shoot-outs.