My 10 year old son came home from school today. We're in England. In today's class they were asked to draw a "what I did this weekend" picture. What we did this weekend was go to a Buddhist temple in London. He drew a picture of this. On either side of the Buddha statue in his picture he also drew the Swastikas the temple had on panels beside the statue. The headmistress was informed and panic ensued. He was given detention, asked "was everything alright at home?" and made to write an essay about why the Swastika was evil.
My reaction? I have yet to decide if I will just go ballistic at the idiot teacher who did this or make an enormous fuss and take it all the way to the local education authority. Actually I have decided, all the way and enormous fuss it is. Morons!