WHAT FIRST AMENDMENT?
When Zero Intelligence selects stories for Least Intelligent of the Year, I hope this one makes the list:
A school board in the far northwest suburbs has expelled a 16-year-old high school student after he drew what officials said was a gang symbol in his notebook.
Board members of McHenry Community High School District 156 emerged from a closed-door session Tuesday night and unanimously voted to expel Derek Kelly, 16, from McHenry East Campus High School for the rest of the school year.
Kelly had been accused of drawing on his daily school planner a rendering of a cross with a crown — the crown being a gang symbol, according to school officials.
And here’s the oh-so-dangerous drawing.
One Response to “WHAT FIRST AMENDMENT?”
 Comment by Jason January 19th, 2006 at 8:52 am |
In all likelihood that *is* a gang symbol, probably Latin Kings. The cross + crown motif used to be all over my neighborhood when I lived in on the near West Side of Chicago in 1996-97. Was expulsion justified, though? Doubtful, unless the kid was into some other kind of punishable activity. |