Media Czech: A straight-A student in Illinois was arrested for writing a violent essay in a creative writing class. It was an assignment in which the teacher specifically instructed the students to not censor themselves. Oh, and he was Asian. So I guess we start arresting kids whose imagination comes up with icky things. Indeed. […]
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