I'm somewhere in the middle, I guess. If a student (it's
always the boys, isn't it?) is drawing a lot of guns and
shoot-em-up, I tell them that what they do in their
sketchbook is not going to be censored, but any finished art
work must be something I can hang in the office.
Of course, I also watch closely and if the drawings are
anything more than just low skill level, video game
boilerplate, I talk quietly to the guidance counselor.
Linda
---- Original message ----
>Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2005 06:39:18 -0500
>From: "croberts" <croberts18@cox.net>
>Subject: Re: Violent Stick Figures
>To: "ArtsEdNet Talk" <artsednet@lists.pub.getty.edu>
>
>Interesting topic...when I was teaching middle school, I
had a student do a
>drawing of the upper torso of a person with a red shirt and
the head had
>been cut off and was laying on a table with blood
everywhere. WOW...I
>panicked...took the drawing to the counselor...she called
the student in and
>talked to him.
>
>The student was angry because he had not gotten what he
wanted for
>Christmas...and the figure he'd drawn was "Santa Claus".
But the counselor
>was able to talk to the student...so everything was all
right.
>
>In high school, on the first day of class, I had a male
(problem student)
>draw some pretty explicit things in a drawing...a dog and
cat in a sex act,
>a man hanging on a rope from a tree, and I can't remember
what else. I took
>this drawing to the counselor...and the student told her
that he did it as a
>"joke". He was removed from art and wasn't allowed to take
the next year.
>Carolyn
>
>
>
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