An Inclusive Litany
5/2/02
Becca Johnson, an honor-roll student at Mellon Middle School in Mount
Lebanon, Pennsylvania, became upset when she scored a D on a
vocabulary test. Johnson was suspended from school after a teacher
spotted a crude stick-figure drawing she subsequently made of the
teacher who gave her the test and a substitute teacher, both depicted
with arrows through their heads. Becca's parents contested the
school's decision that the drawings constituted "terrorist threats."