Queens Student Arrested for Doodling on Desk

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[quote author= msnbc.msn.com]Queens Student Arrested for Doodling on Desk
By Erica Butler

Students at a junior high school in Queens are keeping their pens on their paper after witnessing a fellow student hauled off in handcuffs on Monday. Twelve-year-old Alexa Gonzalez was arrested for scribbling "Lex was here 2/1/10" and "I love my friends Abby and Faith" in washable marker on her desk at Junior High School 190 in Forest Hills.

According to her mother, Moraima Tamacho, Alexa was led out of school and walked to the precinct across the street where she was held for several hours.
"I started crying, like, a lot," Alexa told the NY Daily News,"I made two little doodles."

David Cantor, spokesman for the education department, says the incident "shouldn't have happened" and "common sense should prevail."

This is not the first time a student in the city was arrested for a minor incident. In 2007, WCBS interviewed 13-year-old Chelsea Fraser after she was arrested at her Dyker Heights School for writing "okay" on her desk.

Last month, the New York Civil Liberties Union filed a lawsuit alleging wrongful arrests and assualt by school safety officers.

Alexa is still suspended from school and has been assigned eight hours of community service, a book report and an essay on what she's learned from the experience. [/quote]

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Hey - this is major news! :scared:
Good to know that there are crime busters out there! :headbash:
 
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That is truly unbelievable. I would hope there'd be one cop involved in that situation who would say "um... she's twelve!" But I guess I'd be wrong...
 
"... a book report and an essay on what she's learned from the experience."

Geez. I hope she gets the right to sue the school, city, state, and feds
who crafted/allowed such fascist polices...
 
I looked it up the school where it happened, Russell Sage Junior high. It looks like a formerly decent urban school that is going downhill.

It seems that the school is academically segregated: about a quarter of kids go to advanced classes with an aim to applying to one of the big magnet high schools in the city (and succeed). Other kids who attend usual classes are essentially taught nothing. Being cooped up in idleness breeds bad behavioral choices; the neighborhood issues probably don't help either. The school is aware of it and manages it by maintaining heavy security on premises:

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My guess is, they have plenty of serious troublemakers that no security guards can stop, so they heavily penalize kids who are unlikely to fight back for small infractions to intimidate the rest.

I too hope that the family gets back at them. Shame!
 
I hope she uses a John Taylor Gatto book for her report.

www.johntaylorgatto.com/
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Too bad we don't have an address so that we can send her a copy. And when she is ready to write about what she learned from all this... she can talk about how it opened her eyes to fascism.
 
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