Aaron was 15 years old in April 2001, when he created an icon for his home computer's instant-messaging program. . . . The icon showed a gun pointing to a head, a bullet leaving the gun, and blood splattering from the head. It included the words "Kill Mr. VanderMolen," the name of Aaron's English teacher at Weedsport Middle School.

Obviously, those school officials involved in suspending the student have never read Calvin and Hobbes where Calvin, daydreaming in school as Spaceman Spiff, deals with the horrible alien monster (his teacher, of course). This seems harmless to me, or at least only worth a watchful eye to make sure that the kid is not deeply disturbed.

Of course, it figures it would be an English teacher depicted in the icon ;-)