14 DAY TRIAL // An 8-year-old boy has be suspended and almost kicked out of school for drawing his favorite cartoon and film characters.
The child's parents have decided to take their son out of Scottsdale Country Day School after the headmaster warned them about the expulsion.
Concerned dad Jeff dubs the gesture bullying not against the child, but against the parents. He explains that the young boy has sketched possible Halloween costumes.
"In this situation, it's actually the principal of the school who bullied the parents - so much that we couldn't even be safe in that environment," he tells KPHO.
His three choices were a soldier, a ninja and a Star Wars character. The school dubbed the drawings violent because they included weapons. Jeff believes that school officials are overreacting.
"I think we really send our children the wrong message when we show that, as adults, we're so afraid of our shadow that an innocent picture - that any 8-year-old might've drawn - is cause for this kind of concern," said Jeff.
The headmaster also discussed the boy writing about a zombie scenario in his diary. He described running from the zombies and eliminating them in vivid details.
"I'd open the window, but, stand back quickly. Booby-trapped. Shoot the gadget - a rope gun - I'd swing across without getting hit," he says.
However, other passages included description of many ways in which the child would save the world and mankind.
He had been dubbed a danger to his classmates due to his potential violent nature.
"I don't understand how somebody can say that about an 8-year-old that has no history of violence, no history of making threats - nothing at all," Jeff argues.
He mentions that his son would sometimes throw his eyeglasses if he would get frustrated or upset.