16 Year Old Arrested for Writing About Killing a Dinosaur for School Project

Posted by Aleister Saturday, August 23, 2014 at 7:00am

“This is a perfect example of ‘political correctness’ that has exceeded the boundaries of common sense.”



Legal Insurrection has covered the new zero tolerance policies in American schools before, but this is a case you may have missed last week.

Sixteen year old Alex Stone of Virginia was given a writing assignment on the second day of school. When he wrote an obviously fictional account of killing his neighbor’s pet dinosaur with a gun, he ended up being suspended from school and arrested.

NBC News 12 in Virginia reported:

Police, lawyer release statements on student’s alleged dinosaur killing

Attorney David Aylor, who is representing 16-year-old Alex Stone, said his client’s arrest over a creative writing assignment on Tuesday was “completely absurd,” and is seeking to appeal the suspension and “proceed with the legal issues of [Stone's] arrest.”

“This is a perfect example of ‘political correctness’ that has exceeded the boundaries of common sense,” Aylor said in a statement released on Thursday.”Students were asked to write about themselves and a creative Facebook status update – just days into the new school year – and my client was arrested and suspended after a school assignment.”

The Summerville Police Department who arrested Stone on Tuesday on a charge of disorderly conduct is disputing Stone’s account of his arrest.

Read more: Legal Insurrection

Quote: Frank Cannon wrote in post #2

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Good. It's about time we get this filth off the streets.

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