學生作文虛構槍殺恐龍 學校竟報警
When a South Carolina student was given an assignment by his teacher to create a Facebook-type status report telling something interesting about himself, he allegedly wrote “I killed my neighbor’s pet dinosaur. I bought the gun to take care of the business.”
美國南卡羅來納州的一名學生在完成老師佈置的“按更新臉書的風格寫一件發生在自己身上的趣事”的作業時，寫道“我買槍殺死了鄰居的寵物恐龍”。
School officials were alarmed by 16-year-old Alex Stone’s words and called police. Now Stone and his mother Karen Gray are speaking out to media as they feel the school overreacted.
學校被這個名叫亞歷克斯·斯通的16歲學生的作文嚇到並報了警。目前，斯通和他的媽媽凱倫·格雷找到媒體澄清，並表示是學校反應過度了。
“I could understand if they made him rewrite it because he did have ‘gun’ in it,” Gray told the NY Daily News. “I mean first of all we don’t have dinosaurs anymore. Second of all, he’s not even old enough to buy a gun.”
“如果老師讓他重寫一篇我能夠理解，畢竟他的作業裏有‘槍’這個詞。”格雷告訴《紐約每日新聞》的記者，“可事實是，首先恐龍已經不存在了，其次他這麼小怎麼可能去買槍。”
The cops took Stone in for questioning and searched his locker and backpack for guns. None were found.
警察詢問了斯通並搜查了他的儲物櫃和揹包，但沒發現任何槍支。
Police told My Fox Chicago that Stone was difficult during questioning and they arrested him and charged him with disturbing the school. Stone was also suspended from Summerville High School for a week.
警方告訴My Fox Chicago的記者，斯通在詢問中不太配合，他們現已拘留了他並指控他擾亂學校秩序。同時，斯通被其所在的學校薩默維爾高中停課一週。
While Gray says she understands the gravity of the issue, the mother wishes the school handled things differently.
斯通的媽媽表示雖然她知道這件事情的嚴重性，但她還是覺得學校應該換一種方式處理此事。
“If the school would have called me and told me about the paper and asked me to come down and discussed everything and, at least, get his point-of-view on the way he meant it. I never heard from the school, never. They never called me,” said Gray.
“我覺得學校應該先打電話給我告訴我這件事情，讓我去學校一起商量一下，至少，也讓我先問問孩子爲什麼會寫這樣的東西。可是我一直都沒接到學校的任何通知。他們從未聯繫過我。”格雷說。
While Stone wishes he’d turned in a different assignment, he’s frustrated with the school and would prefer to be home-schooled moving forward.
而斯通也表示他希望自己當時交的作業不是這篇，現在他已經有點不喜歡學校了，寧願選擇在家裏完成學業。
“I regret it because they put it on my record, but I don’t see the harm in it,” Stone told My Fox Chicago.”I think there might have been a better way of putting it, but I think me writing like that, it shouldn’t matter unless I put it out towards a person.”
“我很後悔，因爲這給我留下了不良記錄，但是我沒想到會這麼嚴重。”斯通說，“我覺得（這個作業）可能會有更好的表達方式，但我想着這樣寫，如果不讓別人看到的話應該沒什麼事。”
Gray says her son is allowed to return on Monday.
格雷說他兒子週一才能回來。
