12 year old girl hauled out of school in handcuffs for doodling on her desk

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Hylian

Hylian

http://www.nydailynews.com/ny_local...2010-02-05_cuffed_for_doodling_on_a_desk.html



A 12-year-old Queens girl was hauled out of school in handcuffs for an artless offense - doodling her name on her desk in erasable marker, the Daily News has learned.
Alexa Gonzalez was scribbling a few words on her desk Monday while waiting for her Spanish teacher to pass out homework at Junior High School 190 in Forest Hills, she said.
\"I love my friends Abby and Faith,\" the girl wrote, adding the phrases \"Lex was here. 2/1/10\" and a smiley face.


But instead of simply cleaning off the doodles after class, Alexa landed in some adult-sized trouble for using her lime-green magic marker.


She was led out of school in cuffs and walked to the precinct across the street, where she was detained for several hours, she and her mother said.


\"I started crying, like, a lot,\" said Alexa. \"I made two little doodles. ... It could be easily erased. To put handcuffs on me is unnecessary.\" Alexa, who had a stellar attendance record, hasn't been back to school since, adding, \"I just thought I'd get a detention. I thought maybe I would have to clean [the desk].\"
\"She's been throwing up,\" said her mom, Moraima Camacho, 49, an accountant, who lives with her daughter in Kew Gardens. \"The whole situation has been a nightmare.\"


City officials acknowledged Alexa's arrest was a mistake.
\"We're looking at the facts,\" said City Education Department spokesman David Cantor. \"Based on what we've seen so far, this shouldn't have happened.\"


\"Even when we're asked to make an arrest, common sense should prevail, and discretion used in deciding whether an arrest or handcuffs are really necessary,\" said police spokesman Paul Browne.
Alexa is the latest in a string of city students who have been cuffed for minor infractions. In 2007, 13-year-old Chelsea Fraser was placed under arrest for writing \"okay\" on her desk at Intermediate School 201. And in 2008, 5-year-old Dennis Rivera was cuffed and sent to a psych ward after throwing a fit in his kindergarten.


A class action lawsuit was filed by the New York Civil Liberties Union last month against the city for using \"excessive force\" in middle school and high schools. A 12-year-old sixth-grader, identified in the lawsuit as M.M., was arrested in March 2009 for doodling on her desk at the Hunts Point School.
Alexa is still suspended from her school, her mother said. She and her mom went to family court on Tuesday, where Alexa was assigned eight hours of community service, a book report and an essay on what she learned from the experience.


\"I definitely learned not to ever draw on a desk,\" said Alexa. \"They told me with a pencil this could still happen.\"
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phil

phil

If we don't start breaking their wills now, and reminding them that they are not humans then when they get out into the real world it'll be just that much harder.
 
@Li3n

@Li3n

Sure, it's doodles today, but tomorrow she'll be carving up people and drinking their blood...
 
S

Soliloquy

Man, I doodled on my desk all the time as a kid.

Heck, I doodled large-scale firefights between gun-wielding stick-figures. It was the guys whose heads were filled in against the guys whose heads were empty.

I always tried to make the fights even. You know, to be fair. They taught me fairness in Elementary School.
 
phil

phil

Soliloquy said:
Man, I doodled on my desk all the time as a kid.

Heck, I doodled large-scale firefights between gun-wielding stick-figures. It was the guys whose heads were filled in against the guys whose heads were empty.

I always tried to make the fights even. You know, to be fair. They taught me fairness in Elementary School.
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I'm sorry, but the school you went to now has a zero tolerance policy so you need to turn yourself into either the police or a psyche ward ASAP. Those doodles have turned you into the monster you are today.
 
@Li3n

@Li3n

Soliloquy said:
Man, I doodled on my desk all the time as a kid.

Heck, I doodled large-scale firefights between gun-wielding stick-figures. It was the guys whose heads were filled in against the guys whose heads were empty.

I always tried to make the fights even. You know, to be fair. They taught me fairness in Elementary School.
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Pfft... i started a trend in my class to cut off the 1st layer of your desk because it was full of crappy drawings and writting... one of the guys wa caught doing that by our main teacher, and he "fixed" it by putting fake wood-looking sticky paper stuff on it, i was rofling inside when that worked.
 
ElJuski

ElJuski

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HEY, TEACHERS


LEAVE THOSE KIDS ALONE

Seriously, the fuck is wrong with these people? Doodling is a national pastime.
 
Frank

Frank

Man, I would have been arrested every God damn day of my school life, right through to grade 12 and some of university. I doodled on desks constantly. Hell, I doodled on everything. Nothing was safe from my bored roaming pencil.
 
Gusto

Gusto

Even today when I cram before an exam, I immediately write the notes that are still on the top of my head on the desk so that I can refer to them during later parts of the exam. I always use pencil.
 
Denbrought

Denbrought

Huh, I was doodling on desks yesterday during geometry class, and later that night during a D&D game. So glad I didn't get snatched by homeland sec.
 
S

Soliloquy

phil;338343][QUOTE=Soliloquy said:
Man, I doodled on my desk all the time as a kid.

Heck, I doodled large-scale firefights between gun-wielding stick-figures. It was the guys whose heads were filled in against the guys whose heads were empty.

I always tried to make the fights even. You know, to be fair. They taught me fairness in Elementary School.
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I'm sorry, but the school you went to now has a zero tolerance policy so you need to turn yourself into either the police or a psyche ward ASAP. Those doodles have turned you into the monster you are today.[/QUOTE]

I may be a monster, but at least I'm fair.
 
Vagabond

Vagabond

I doodled on my desk like no ones business.

Those people that carve into the desks though are scum of the earth.
 
ElJuski

ElJuski

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I'm pretty sure Holden Caufield is in charge of this crackdown.

WRITE DIRTY WORDS ON THE DESK WILL YOU
 
Shakey

Shakey

You're all missing the point.

"I definitely learned not to ever draw on a desk," said Alexa. "They told me with a pencil this could still happen."
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It worked. We should do this more often.
 
phil

phil

ElJuski said:
I'm pretty sure Holden Caufield is in charge of this crackdown.

WRITE DIRTY WORDS ON THE DESK WILL YOU
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I think he'd just be mad that she wrote something so phony like "I love my friends Abby and Faith" because girls are always going on about how good of friends they all are like that. Not to mention parents who name their kids lousy names like faith.
 
GasBandit

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Shakey said:
You're all missing the point.

"I definitely learned not to ever draw on a desk," said Alexa. "They told me with a pencil this could still happen."
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It worked. We should do this more often.
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Corporal punishment in the classroom would have had the same effect, and wouldn't have necessitated the timewasting of multiple law enforcement officials.
 
Shakey

Shakey

GasBandit;338515][QUOTE=Shakey said:
You're all missing the point.

"I definitely learned not to ever draw on a desk," said Alexa. "They told me with a pencil this could still happen."
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It worked. We should do this more often.
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Corporal punishment in the classroom would have had the same effect, and wouldn't have necessitated the timewasting of multiple law enforcement officials.[/QUOTE]

But cops like scaring little girls. It's much more fun than having to drag in the rowdy drunk who's throwing up on your shoes.
 
K

Kitty Sinatra

Man, this girl's got problems. We should set her up with Icarus.
 
David

David

I used my grade school desks during math class all the time as a white-board with my pencil, figuring I could easily erase it when I'm done. I guess nobody saw me do it.
 
Ravenpoe

Ravenpoe

So... it doesn't say anywhere in the article just what she was detained for.

Is desk doodling an arrestable crime?
 
C

Chibibar

oh no a doodle??? gee whiz. Call the swat team. This girl got a pencil and she is not afraid to write "I like you" on a desk!!! quick where are my snipers??
 
bhamv3

bhamv3

I'll be the cop just wanted to see a 12 year old girl in handcuffs.

(I felt a bit dirty just writing that)
 
Hailey Knight

Hailey Knight

Ravenpoe said:
So... it doesn't say anywhere in the article just what she was detained for.

Is desk doodling an arrestable crime?
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Vandalism of school property.

No one sees it shocking they took a 5-year-old away in cuffs and put him in a psych ward for having an outburst in kindergarten? That all seems perfectly rational to people here?
 
O

Occasional Poster

I never doodled on my desk. I kept it clean clean clean clean like a good boy a good boy
 
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