Second Grader at Maxham Elementary School in Taunton, MA, Suspended for Drawing Picture of Jesus on the Cross
Student Forced to Undergo Psychological Evaluation
The boy's father, Chester Johnson, in an interview with the Taunton Daily Gazette, said he just wants to get his son out of the school. He is a better person than I am because I would have gone absolutely ballistic had that been my child. I cannot believe that the teacher and the school officials traumatized this child over a picture of Jesus Christ on the cross.
This incident comes on the heels of Lamya Cammon, a first grader at Congress Elementary School, in Milwaukee, Wi., whose teacher cut one of her braids because she wouldn't stop playing with them in class. So, it's okay for a kid to draw a picture of Santa Claus or Rudolph the Red-Nosed reindeer, but Jesus Christ is taboo.
Also lost on the school officials and the teacher is the fact that the boy, according to the Taunton Daily Gazette, drew the picture shortly after visiting the National Shrine of Our Lady of La Salette in Attelboro to see its Christmas display. I am appalled and deeply troubled that there are too many incidents in which teachers are overreacting to very minor things. This is just unconscionable.
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