12 Year Old Arrested..

Dr.EM · 18 Feb 2010 at 18:54

I'd have a criminal record if our school had operated like this! Mental!

Cosimo · 18 Feb 2010 at 18:55

^TANK^ said:
Death penalty tbh.

Too harsh, a day in the stocks would do.

Pawnless Endgame · 18 Feb 2010 at 18:56

At my school, someone in year 7 pushed a year 8 kid through a window, breaking the window in the process. He got suspended. At my mum's school, a kid hoax-called the police reference a bomb scare. He rightfully got arrested but that NY school should have had Alex in detention. Writing graffiti on a desk is a lot less significant than pushing someone through a window and hoax-calling the police!

arknor · 18 Feb 2010 at 18:56

they should hsve gave her the CANE!

G-MAN2004 · 18 Feb 2010 at 18:57

Dmack said:
lololol

Sarcasm, obviously.

Biohazard · 18 Feb 2010 at 18:59

Its ok its america, they taser children into showers if they don't comply.

It doesn't suprise me they will handcuff children for graffiti.

Small suspension or talk to parents would be far more appropriate.

geekyEd · 18 Feb 2010 at 18:59

Absolutely ridiculous, head teacher should be fired, thats no way to treat a child.

SlyReaper · 18 Feb 2010 at 19:00

We're only hearing one side of the story here. It's very over-the-top if it was just for carving some words into a desk. But there's probably more to it.

Morgoth · 18 Feb 2010 at 19:02

A bit of ethanol and that desk would have been good as new.

I get around · 18 Feb 2010 at 19:06

Overkill but she clearly knew she wasn't allowed to draw on the desk and did it anyway.
Teacher should have just chucked the board eraser at her head and that'd be the end of it, or perhaps a detention if they're a bit newage.

Cyanide · 18 Feb 2010 at 19:08

SlyReaper said:
We're only hearing one side of the story here. It's very over-the-top if it was just for carving some words into a desk. But there's probably more to it.

Unless she was writing "Death to the US" I very much doubt it was worth having her arrested

asim18 · 18 Feb 2010 at 19:09

Holy crap, talk about over-reaction!

I got caught drawing a giant phallus on a desk once, teacher laughed at it.

Then he told me to wash it off.

.Lethal · 18 Feb 2010 at 19:15

That will teach her not to do it again.

Cosimo · 18 Feb 2010 at 19:16

asim18 said:
I got caught drawing a giant phallus on a desk once, teacher laughed at it. Then he told me to wash it off.

Didn't he ask you to put it away.

D D Danneh · 18 Feb 2010 at 19:20

SlyReaper said:
carving some words into a desk.

She didn't even carve them, she wrote them.

Pathetic. The police round here would probably just laugh.

Only in stereotypical clichéd America.

SexyGreyFox · 18 Feb 2010 at 19:23

That'll learn her

trickycurve · 18 Feb 2010 at 19:26

That teacher must have made something completely over the top up when he called the police, as I find it rather hard to digest that they'd bother even lifting a finger for: "A 12-year-old has wrote 'I love my friends Abby and Faith. Lex was here 2/1/10' on her desk".

But then again, we are talking about America here.

.Simon · 18 Feb 2010 at 19:29

SlyReaper said:
We're only hearing one side of the story here. It's very over-the-top if it was just for carving some words into a desk. But there's probably more to it.

Exactly.

But more is not what people want to hear of course. We don't know the girls past behaviour with the school.

KNiVES · 18 Feb 2010 at 19:31

Hang her

doesn't she know how much care, effort and pride went into crafting those school desks just so that people could get an education?

Rroff · 18 Feb 2010 at 19:36

knip said:
Reminds me of the time I got suspended from school for a day for writing on the desks.....I did call the geography teacher a word that rhymes with banker in my message and falsely accused him of having an affair with the history teacher though.....

Funny I know someone who did that at school - but I'm guessing you didn't go to Bucklers Mead even tho your from North Somerset.