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CAT Tracks for December 16, 2009
'TIS (NOT) THE SEASON |
Bet school officials would like a "do over" on this decision.
A teenager crying out for help...maybe. An 8-year-old...not so much.
From the KFVS TV Channel 12 Website...
Child sent home after drawing Jesus for school project
TAUNTON, Mass. (AP) - The father of an 8-year-old boy says his son was sent home from school and ordered to undergo a psychological evaluation after he was asked to make a Christmas drawing, then sketched what appeared to be a stick figure of Jesus on a cross.
Chester Johnson says his son made the drawing on Dec. 2 after his second-grade teacher asked children to sketch something that reminded them of the holiday. The assignment came just days after the family had visited the holiday lights display at a Catholic shrine in Attleboro, Mass.
Johnson says his son was impressed by a crucifix he saw there, so "that's what he drew."
Johnson says administrators were concerned the boy drew X's for Jesus' eyes, and particularly worried when the boy said he'd drawn himself on the cross after officials pressed him about who he'd drawn.
When asked why his son first said he drew himself, Johnson said his son might have been worried about getting in trouble if he told them he drew Jesus.
