Kids

What's the betting this kid has no friends?

Lucian, who attends Highgate Junior School, spends several hours a week reading through the encyclopaedia's 32 volumes.

Don't you just want to slap him?

I do have some sympathy with these two though.

Two boys, ages 9 and 10, were charged with felonies and taken away from school in handcuffs, accused of making violent drawings of stick figures. The boys were arrested Monday on charges of making a written threat to kill or harm another person, a second-degree felony. The special education students used pencil and red crayon to draw primitive stick figure scenes on scrap paper that showed a 10-year-old classmate being stabbed and hung, police said.

26% of people who have voted (right panel) think it is an appropriate course of action. So lets get this straight, gun ownership is fine but drawing stick figures is evil and wrong? They're just kids - is it not the society in which they are growing up that should be examined?