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The Violent Nature of Infants

Society has become increasingly aware of the need to nip the violent tendencies of young people in the bud. It ill behooves school authorities to overlook instances of obvious social dissonance with elementary school students exhibiting fearsome tendencies toward viciousness. From bullying in the schoolyard to surreptitiously carrying weapons on to school property, vigilance is the order of the day.

And so, it makes perfectly good sense for an eight-year-old elementary school student in Massachusetts to be suspended from school. And if his father doesn't care for the order from the school to have his son undergo a psychological evaluation before he could be considered for re-admission, well, that's just a fact of life he will have to live with. Better that than, say another school massacre. It's logical to assume that anyone would agree with that.

And if you're a Christian family with a deep and abiding faith, and a love for Jesus Christ, perhaps it might be best, all things considered, to think twice before embarking on a trip with the family to a clearly incendiary site such as the National Shrine of Our Lady of La Salette, in Attleboro, Massachusetts. Perhaps that site should not have been mentioned; please DO NOT take your impressionable child there, unless you wish to radicalize your innocent.

For upon return from that trip, this eight-year-old child was inspired to create an image that appalled and frightened his teacher, convincing her, and then the school administration, that they were in the presence of a veritable monster whose depravity would soon spill over into physical violence of the first order. This monstrous child's teacher, as reported in the Taunton Daily Gazette, instructed her class to draw something with a Christmas theme.

This child drew ... a ... crucifix. A nominal drawing, suitable to reflect the drawing capabilities of an eight-year-old, of a stick-figure, hanging upon a cross, two Xs for eyes, cleverly denoting that the poor unfortunate stick-figure had been lamentably deprived of life. The horrified school administration immediately contacted the father. "When she told me he needed to be psychologically evaluated, I thought she was playing", the father reported.

But no. His child was a monster-in-waiting, and he had to do something about it. This boy who had never, ever, in his short life demonstrated a tendency toward violence had suddenly revealed himself. Desperately, the father sought help with a non-profit educational consultant, because of his son's condition: "he's traumatized by everything that has happened."

"I've had kids suspended for idiotic things before, but I've never had to deal with anything like this", admitted the consultant. This child who was removed from Lowell L. Maxham School on December 1, and permitted to return only after he received a psychiatric evaluation which discerned no abnormalities, nothing to validate the school administration's fears, is clearly a demon in hiding.

"I didn't understand why this was so important to them, why it violated the school code of violence in their handbook. It just didn't make sense. It was just the drawing, and I don't know how that turned into violence", the consultant, obviously not very good at her calling, admitted.

The school principal and the superintendent were not returning calls from interested news media.

Labels: Social-Cultural Deviations, That's Life, United States

posted by Pieface @ Wednesday, December 16, 2009