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SoylentGreen · Feb 8, 2010, 11:48 am

US student, 12, arrested for doodling - World - NZ Herald News

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NEW YORK - A New York City junior high student has been arrested for doodling on her desk.

Alexa Gonzalez, 12, scribbled "Lex was here 2/1/10' on her desk. She also wrote "I love my friends Abby and Faith.'

Moraima Tamacho says her daughter was released several hours after she was taken in handcuffs to a police station, according to the Daily News.

Education department spokesman David Cantor said the incident shouldn't have happened, and that common sense should prevail.

Gonzalez has been assigned eight hours of community service, a book report and an essay on what she's learned from the experience.

Now that would be an interesting essay to read.
If it was me the essay would be on how teachers seem to have lost the plot on discipline in schools.
What would you write about?

ironeagle · Feb 9, 2010, 12:30 am

Wow how rediculous, police arresting kids for minor property damage. Maybe it would be good to make the police officers write an essay about how wasting tax dollars on frivelous arrests is irresponsible use of public funds.

mbc85 · Feb 9, 2010, 12:51 am

-_- seriously.... I wouldn't write anything. I'll take a stand against the stupidities of my "superiors", see if they arrest me again.

yukonmuffin · Feb 10, 2010, 01:17 am

write about your newly acquired hate and distrust for your local police department and teacher. What is wrong with stamping your desk? gives the school a personal touch. It's always fun reading the old ones from the 80's, I found one that read:

sex is fun,
booz is great!
where the grad
of '88!

I thought it was clever. Adds history to the desk.

Chaossaber314 · Feb 10, 2010, 10:28 am

In all fairness, the police wouldn't have been there without a hysterical administration/teaching staff bringing it to their attention. I'm going to go out on a limb and say that they weren't electronically monitoring the room before the incident.

That said, there seems to be some information suspiciously absent. She was arrested, charged, plead guilty (presumably given the time frame) to property damage, and sentenced to community service between 2-1-2010 and 2-8-2010? More likely, she was detained, not arrested (the difference is minutia I realize) as an incorrigible child and released to her parents when her parents got off work / were finally notified by the school. It happens frequently. Parents or other adults in charge of children calling the police wanting them to take a child to juvenile because they're "Out of control".

Chaossaber314 · Feb 10, 2010, 10:30 am

Double post.

mbc85 · Feb 10, 2010, 10:41 am

I don't think my parents ever sent to juve hall for writing on the wall in my room, even when I did it with permanent marker. Police is not to blame but the administration is. But police need to quit doing"their jobs" and use reason when it comes to miniscule "problems" like this one. Tasing a 9 year old? Wrong. Tasing a 72 year old lady on the side of the highway? Wrong (that happened in austin, good ol' texas. Common sense people, use it.

viper · Feb 11, 2010, 02:34 am

Damn, and I felt like blowing something up when they made us clean our desks before the start of summer, especially since what I was cleaning wasn't written by me. Bad deal lol.

Chris the Chees · Feb 11, 2010, 07:45 am

As noted by others, essays should be assigned all round; to the kid, the teachers and the police officers.

Cyrus · Feb 16, 2010, 07:14 pm

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Quote by: yukonmuffin

write about your newly acquired hate and distrust for your local police department and teacher. What is wrong with stamping your desk? gives the school a personal touch. It's always fun reading the old ones from the 80's, I found one that read:

sex is fun,
booz is great!
where the grad
of '88!

I thought it was clever. Adds history to the desk.

Apparently writing on the desk 'destroys' it, regardless of what's on it. I accidentally drew like 6 lines on the desk because I was drawing long lines on paper and they went onto the desk (it was a permanent marker) and my teacher saw and said if that didn't get cleaned up, I would get fined for destruction of public property, after school waiting for the bus, I asked the school cop (another douche) if I could, and he said yes, and if he ever hears someone say I did it again, he would ticket me (completely serious) $500.

I don't understand how writing on a desk destroys it. I hate how kids that throw tantrums in class and yell at the teacher and throw desks are 'troubled' and get put in special classes (it happened in my school) but if you write on a desk, you're "DESTROYING THE PROPERTY! RAWRJGLSDFJKJDF IT IS UNUSABLE BECAUSE THERE ARE LINES ON IT! YOU ARE GOING TO HELL MY MOM IS MY GRANDMA AND MY FATHER IS MY BROTHER RAWRJGNKLSVN"

Night · Feb 16, 2010, 07:27 pm

It seems to me that the younger the class, the dumber the teachers. As you move up in grades the teachers progressively get less stupid. Some of the dumbest idiots I have ever met were elementary school teachers.

ChimneySweep · Feb 16, 2010, 08:07 pm

I've read in the media and heard from teachers I know that controlling a class to the level where they can learn is becoming more and more difficult. I can see why a school gets upset with kids throwing desks etc but this other stuff is a major over-reaction. My daughter, who is the same age as you Cyrus, dropped some classes this year because a section of the students were so disruptive that she felt being there was a waste of time. The teachers she likes are the ones with a natural confidence and who used humour to keep control, but knew when to enforce rules if things were spinning out of control. Would you agree with that?

sydnerella · Feb 18, 2010, 02:32 pm

Theres a fine line between firm enforcement of rules and an overreaction. This was a gross overreaction.

ironeagle · Feb 22, 2010, 01:24 am

Just another example of liberal zero tolerance hysteria.

Feb 9, 2010, 12:30 am	#2 (permalink)
ironeagle Ncp Rights Activist Location: Iowa Posts: 1,515	Wow how rediculous, police arresting kids for minor property damage. Maybe it would be good to make the police officers write an essay about how wasting tax dollars on frivelous arrests is irresponsible use of public funds. Saving the empovershed by empoverishing their counterparts will empoverish the whole.

Feb 10, 2010, 01:17 am	#4 (permalink)
yukonmuffin Quality > Quantity Location: North of 60° Posts: 1,040 Blog Entries: 2	write about your newly acquired hate and distrust for your local police department and teacher. What is wrong with stamping your desk? gives the school a personal touch. It's always fun reading the old ones from the 80's, I found one that read: sex is fun, booz is great! where the grad of '88! I thought it was clever. Adds history to the desk. Breakn' Stuff to Look tough.

Feb 10, 2010, 10:28 am	#5 (permalink)
Chaossaber314 The Cake is a lie... Location: St. Louis Posts: 2,715 Blog Entries: 3	In all fairness, the police wouldn't have been there without a hysterical administration/teaching staff bringing it to their attention. I'm going to go out on a limb and say that they weren't electronically monitoring the room before the incident. That said, there seems to be some information suspiciously absent. She was arrested, charged, plead guilty (presumably given the time frame) to property damage, and sentenced to community service between 2-1-2010 and 2-8-2010? More likely, she was detained, not arrested (the difference is minutia I realize) as an incorrigible child and released to her parents when her parents got off work / were finally notified by the school. It happens frequently. Parents or other adults in charge of children calling the police wanting them to take a child to juvenile because they're "Out of control". What makes a man turn neutral? Lust for gold? Power? Or were you just born with a heart full of neutrality?

Feb 10, 2010, 10:30 am	#6 (permalink)
Chaossaber314 The Cake is a lie... Location: St. Louis Posts: 2,715 Blog Entries: 3	Double post. What makes a man turn neutral? Lust for gold? Power? Or were you just born with a heart full of neutrality?

Feb 11, 2010, 02:34 am	#8 (permalink)
viper The Voice of Reason. Location: Washington Posts: 389	Damn, and I felt like blowing something up when they made us clean our desks before the start of summer, especially since what I was cleaning wasn't written by me. Bad deal lol. Say no to superstition and BS, science forever.

Feb 9, 2010, 12:51 am	#3 (permalink)
mbc85 Igneous Magma Location: texas Posts: 293	-_- seriously.... I wouldn't write anything. I'll take a stand against the stupidities of my "superiors", see if they arrest me again.

Feb 10, 2010, 10:41 am	#7 (permalink)
mbc85 Igneous Magma Location: texas Posts: 293	I don't think my parents ever sent to juve hall for writing on the wall in my room, even when I did it with permanent marker. Police is not to blame but the administration is. But police need to quit doing"their jobs" and use reason when it comes to miniscule "problems" like this one. Tasing a 9 year old? Wrong. Tasing a 72 year old lady on the side of the highway? Wrong (that happened in austin, good ol' texas. Common sense people, use it.

Feb 11, 2010, 07:45 am	#9 (permalink)
Chris the Chees busy Location: Wales Posts: 2,717	As noted by others, essays should be assigned all round; to the kid, the teachers and the police officers. Society may be formed so as to exist without crime, without poverty, […] no obstacle whatsoever intervenes at this moment except ignorance to prevent such a state of society. Robert Owen

Feb 16, 2010, 07:27 pm	#11 (permalink)
Night Flaming Homosexual Location: Las Vegas, NV (USA) Posts: 1,125	It seems to me that the younger the class, the dumber the teachers. As you move up in grades the teachers progressively get less stupid. Some of the dumbest idiots I have ever met were elementary school teachers. "Reality is for people who can't cope with drugs" - Robin Williams "A true man hates no one" - Napoleon Bonaparte "God is dead" - Friedrich Nietzsche "Blaghhghghahahhghaggagga" - Terri Schiavo

Feb 16, 2010, 08:07 pm	#12 (permalink)
ChimneySweep Igneous Magma Posts: 219	I've read in the media and heard from teachers I know that controlling a class to the level where they can learn is becoming more and more difficult. I can see why a school gets upset with kids throwing desks etc but this other stuff is a major over-reaction. My daughter, who is the same age as you Cyrus, dropped some classes this year because a section of the students were so disruptive that she felt being there was a waste of time. The teachers she likes are the ones with a natural confidence and who used humour to keep control, but knew when to enforce rules if things were spinning out of control. Would you agree with that?

Feb 18, 2010, 02:32 pm	#13 (permalink)
sydnerella Sedimentary Rock Posts: 1	Theres a fine line between firm enforcement of rules and an overreaction. This was a gross overreaction.

Feb 22, 2010, 01:24 am	#14 (permalink)
ironeagle Ncp Rights Activist Location: Iowa Posts: 1,515	Just another example of liberal zero tolerance hysteria. Saving the empovershed by empoverishing their counterparts will empoverish the whole.