SCHOOL: BOYS NOT ALLOWED. 8-year-old threatened with expulsion for drawings.

The three images in question depict a soldier, a ninja and a Star Wars character – possibilities for the 8-year-old’s Halloween costume. Each of the drawings show the character holding either a gun or a knife. . . .

During the meeting, the headmaster also showed Jeff his son’s journal, where the headmaster had highlighted words he found violent and unacceptable. One passage about escaping a killer zombie at a haunted school read: “I’d open the window, but, stand back quickly. Booby-trapped. Shoot the gadget – a rope gun – I’d swing across without getting hit.” Many of the third-grader’s other journal entries were about saving the earth and protecting humanity.