2nd-grader sent home for Jesus crucifix drawing

How seriously should we take children’s doodles? According to the AP, a Mass. school sent an 8-year-old boy home and ordered him to undergo a psychological evaluation after the child – when asked to make a Christmas drawing – drew a stick figure of Jesus on a cross. The child’s teacher asked the class to “sketch something that reminded them of the holiday,” and the boy seemed to choose a more religious image than say, oh, Santa?

The father said in the days before the incident the family had gone to the National Shrine of Our Lady of La Salette in Attleboro, where there are crucifixion statues."That was fresh on his mind," he said. "And that was a good thing that he saw."

The child’s father is currently waiting for an apology from the school, which he thinks overreacted. (The school, however, refutes the claim and insists the image circulated to the media is not the one they confiscated).

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