(It's obvious this kid was kind of troubled to be needing to use art therapy for working out his emotional responses, but arresting him and putting him in jail is how you take a kid who might be close to the edge like that, and push him over---fuck him up for a long time if not permanently. Now, that's not even considering how whacked it is they arrested him to begin with, an 11 year old. I used to draw violent pictures all the time, and I could draw pretty well for an 11 yr old, so my drawings were vividly violent with blood spatters and everything. The difference being none of the "victims" in my drawings were labeled "teacher" or anything. Lucky me.
If the drawing (which was being thrown away, by the way) bothered that teacher so much, what should have happened is that the school calls the parents and they set up a meeting without the kid present or even aware of it. That's when the parents would have told the overreacting douchebags that their kid's therapist prescribed art therapy for him to let off his emotional steam. If you want to see a successful "trial result", go and look up how successful art therapy is for children with emotional issues, people with post traumatic stress disorder, and people who have been sexually assaulted. Between their minds and their fingers, they can get out what they can't find or say the words they need to get out, move past the memory or whatever that is keeping them trapped in that place.--jef)
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