Kid's Jesus-on-the-cross drawing: School district says father is lying

[Newsjock]

An update to a story discussed extensively here this week.
Source: Associated Press

A Massachusetts school district on Tuesday night denied a father's claims that his son was suspended for drawing a stick figure of Jesus on a cross.

The Taunton School District said in a written statement that the second-grade student was never suspended over the sketch and that a drawing circulated to reporters by the boy's father, Chester Johnson, is not the same one that was discovered by the teacher.

The district also denied that the boy and his classmates had been assigned to draw something that reminded them of Christmas or any other religious holiday.

Johnson, who had said his son was ordered to undergo a psychological evaluation after the drawing was discovered, did not return multiple phone messages from The Associated Press on Tuesday night about the school district's statements.

Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2009/12/15/national/a095525S68.DTL&tsp=1

[XemaSab]

1. The state of education in this country is tragic

Christmas is about the BIRTH of Jesus, not the DEATH of Jesus. :banghead:

[stopbush]

5. Uh, it's not the public school system's job to "educate" kids about mythical religious figures.

The people doing the poor job of educating are the religious parents and institutions who teach this crap to their kids.

[XemaSab]

6. Yeah, that's why I thought the :sarcasm: glyph

was un-necessary. :D

[gratuitous]

2. Chester Johnson?

How many degrees of separation from the Parlock clan?

[Ken Burch]

3. Self-delete

n/t.

[DURHAM D]

4. I knew this story was crap the first time it appeared today. nt

[YOY]

7. All bullshit claims aside...Jesus on a cross? Isn't that Easter?

n/t

[RedCloud]

8. Kicked because Keith Olberman debunked it as well despite DUers jumping on board with it!

Folks when you have been had, fess up to it.