Student Arrested for Writing Essay

Posted by Zonk on Friday April 27, 2007 @05:10AM from the thinkofthechildren-tag-is-appropriate-here dept.

mcgrew writes "The Chicago Tribune reports that an eighteen year old straight-A High School student was arrested for writing an essay that 'disturbed' his teacher. Even though no threats were made to a specific person, 18 year-old Allen Lee's English teacher convened a panel to discuss the work. As a result of that discussion, the police were called in. 'The youth's father said his son was not suspended or expelled but was forced to attend classes elsewhere for now. Today, Cary-Grove students rallied behind the arrested teen by organizing a petition drive to let him back in their school. They posted on walls quotes from the English teacher in which she had encouraged students to express their emotions through writing.'"

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Re:The arresting officers by ductonius · 2007-04-27 05:12 · Score: 0, Offtopic

Why are you bringing Dawn into this? What did she do?
Re:The arresting officers by Robot+Randy · 2007-04-27 05:41 · Score: 0, Offtopic

And why would he shoot the Arresting Officers at Dawn anyway? I kinda liked her on "Buffy".

Will he be using a Cannon, Trebuchet, or an ACME Giant Slingshot?
Re:Knee-jerk reaction to Virginia Tech by Sammy+Loo · 2007-04-27 07:44 · Score: 0, Offtopic

mod it down, flamebait!!!

FLAMEBAIT.