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Ten Year Old Tennessee Boy Suspended from School for Passing Around 'Death Note'

25/4/2014

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Collierville, Tennessee
Parents at Sycamore Elementary School, in Collierville, Tennessee, are calling for a young boy to be expelled after he created his own 'Death Note'.

The ten year old apparently ripped a page from an ordinary notebook, wrote 'Death Note' on the top and listed class-mates names underneath. Then passed it around his fifth grade class.

This naturally panicked the children whose names featured on the list. One of whom was the daughter of Jill
Wiernik, who approached her mother in floods of tears at home time.

The mother immediately marched into the Principal's Office and had the boy suspended from school for two weeks.

On April 23rd 2014, he was back in class. This didn't impress Ms Wiernik, who used Facebook to rally other parents to the cause of getting the child expelled for good. She told EyeWitness News, '
This is criminal activity, and it needs to be handled not only by a juvenile court but by the board of education. And they're not looking out for the best interest of the 800 students.'

For the record, Death Note is fiction, and even within that universe the names had to be written upon a page supplied by a Shinigami. Personally, I'm not convinced that merely writing 'Death Note' at the top of an ordinary piece of paper - in the real world - constitutes the making of the next Light Yagami. Particularly since no child died of a heart attack within the next 40 seconds.

Am I being too harsh or flippant here?  What do you think?




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orangepunch
25/4/2014 10:57:48

This keeps happening, doesn't it?

I think a child even got punished for having a death note notebook. Like, just a note book that looked like the death note, that's all.

I am definitely not surprised at the way this is being handled. I finally watched the documentary "Bully" the other night and I thought my head was going to explode after I saw how one principle handled a student who was being bullied. (In the end she blamed the kid for not just being able to be friends the the bully, and basically punished him for causing a disruption). I know not exactly the same thing, but it's just another one of those school officials really are incompetent and they'll do whatever necessary to make a potential problem disappear instead of actually addressing it. Which means this kid will probably end up expelled.

I think in truth the starting point is to ask the kid why he wanted to write names in a death note. Was he messing about, doing something he saw and writing names at random, or did he pick certain people with a specific intent (like with Light's "mentality" believing these people whose names he wrote deserved to be punished). I think he most likely didn't mean anything by it. I think rather than expulsion or whatever, maybe someone should discuss with him the implications of a death note, and so on. I mean, there are a lot of interesting issues that are raised in the manga and if the student is interested in the manga, maybe challenge him to think deeper about it.

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Matti
25/4/2014 11:01:19

You've raised a great point about the manga. Light doesn't use the Death Note without a downside kicking in. I'm not sure that it's all that glamorous within the context of the story.

The deeper issues abound and that's what so enamoured me of this manga.

It is sad that principals like that exist. They're supposed to protect the children and provide an education, not wish them away.

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