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Originally Posted by ASTalumna06
The character of the boy's father has nothing to do with this situation.
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I don't know. When the father is already talking about the money that the school system owes him, I think it does have a bearing on his credility and motivation.
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If the school is denying the entire event, then what happened? How is this even a story? If the teacher wasn't upset about THIS drawing, where's the one that DID concern her?
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The school system isn't denying the entire event; it's denying some of what the local paper reported about the event. Specifically, it has denied that the boy was suspended, that he was given an assignment to draw something holiday themed and that the drawing that has appeared in the press is the one the teacher saw. (And as Lane has pointed out, legal/privacy restrictions prevent the school from releasing any of the kid's work without parental permission.)
And "being cleared to return to school" isn't, I don't think, the same as suspension. As far as I know, a suspension is a disciplinary action for a set length of time. If the psych exam is not for disciplinary reasons and there's no disciplinary action being taken, then there is no suspension. The school's response is that the drawing seemed to be a possible "cry for help." If that's the case, it seems more akin to "don't come back to school until you've been fever-free for 24 hours" than to suspension.
I think this may well be a misunderstanding grown out of control. I'm not saying that the school system is (or isn't) blameless here. But my experience is that these things are seldom as cut and dry as the may appear in the press, especially when one side can say whatever it wants while the other side is pretty limited in what it can see.
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