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12-year-old girl arrested for doodling on her desk

post #1 of 15
2/21/10 at 2:21pm
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(CNN) -- There was no profanity, no hate. Just the words, "I love my friends Abby and Faith. Lex was here 2/1/10 " scrawled on the classroom desk with a green marker.

Alexa Gonzalez, an outgoing 12-year-old who likes to dance and draw, expected a lecture or maybe detention for her doodles earlier this month. Instead, the principal of the Junior High School in Forest Hills, New York, called police, and the seventh-grader was taken across the street to the police precinct.

Alexa's hands were cuffed behind her back, and tears gushed as she was escorted from school in front of teachers and -- the worst audience of all for a preadolescent girl -- her classmates.

"They put the handcuffs on me, and I couldn't believe it," Alexa recalled. "I didn't want them to see me being handcuffed, thinking I'm a bad person."

Alexa is no longer facing suspension, according a spokeswoman for the New York City Department of Education. Still, the case of the doodling preteen is raising concerns about the use of zero tolerance policies in schools.
More at link: http://www.cnn.com/2010/CRIME/02/18/...x.html?hpt=Mid

Un-fucking-believable. Had no idea how much it sucks to be a kid these days!
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post #2 of 15
2/21/10 at 2:35pm
Clearly those words were a cleverly coded form of communication entailing her plans to kill everyone in the school with a weed eater. I'm glad that the fine, upstanding principal figured this out and had the little monster taken into custody where her subversive attitudes cannot harm any of the other precious jewels in her school.


"I didn't want them to see me being handcuffed, thinking I'm a bad person."

Well too bad Alexa, the fine staff of the Junior High School in Forest Hills, New York have done their job so you couldn't do yours. Rot in hell you little villain.
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post #3 of 15
2/21/10 at 2:55pm
Interesting story, but the wrong forum.
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post #4 of 15
2/21/10 at 4:14pm
Everyone gets out of the public school system knowing educators are overpaid fascists. Now, at least, the 12 year olds are getting the picture. She'd have been better off with dogmatic nuns who are loose with rulers.

I do, however, look forward to this girl's future...as a Gotham rogue who carves loving thoughts and spirals into the faces of her Board Of Ed victims. They've just made an enemy that won't soon forget this insolent scurrility.
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post #5 of 15
2/21/10 at 4:41pm
Wasn't there a comedian who paid girls to doodle on tables so that he could lie underneath and watch fuck sorry I know that's a terrible joke I need coffee
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post #6 of 15
2/22/10 at 4:22am
So I guess my intricate, multiple days in the making murals of giant space battles would probably warrant an on the spot execution nowadays.
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post #7 of 15
2/22/10 at 1:41pm
The best part of the article is the last line:

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"There is zero intelligence when you start applying zero tolerance across the board," he [Judge Teske] said. "Stupid and ridiculous things start happening."
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post #8 of 15
2/22/10 at 1:44pm
I liked drawing on desks in school. I don't see the problem with it. Why? Because it's really not vandalism. If you're carving things into desks, that's bad. Because they'll be there forever. But if you're doodling with a pencil, what's the big deal? I loved to doodle weird stuff, knowing that the person who sat there next period would get to check out my art. If anything, it encourages creativity. I also knew that my Doodle would have at most a 48 hour shelf life before the pencil lines were wiped clean from the desk.

As long as it's not vandalism, it's basically just a nice little place to exhibit your art, as far as high school students are concerned.

Now, if a teacher came up to her and told her to stop and she kept going.... that's a different matter. But even then, the police should not have been called in.
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post #9 of 15
2/22/10 at 1:48pm
There has absolutely got to be more to this story? Right? I mean, she has to have been building up to this being the final straw?
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post #10 of 15
2/22/10 at 2:10pm
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Originally Posted by Jackson View Post
There has absolutely got to be more to this story? Right? I mean, she has to have been building up to this being the final straw?
Yep! Details keep emerging. In fact, one student--speaking on the condition of anonymity--reports that Alexa had scrawled "I Love Tommy" in the margins of Page 63 of her Science book only the period before.
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post #11 of 15
2/22/10 at 2:14pm
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Originally Posted by Mattioli View Post
Yep! Details keep emerging. In fact, one student--speaking on the condition of anonymity--reports that Alexa had scrawled "I Love Tommy" in the margins of Page 63 of her Science book only the period before.

In fairness I also did alot of doodling on my text books, and in retrospect that's less cool than doodling on your desk. But, in fairness, a doodle on page 97 of 11th grade US History text is going to have a longer shelf life than a doodle on your desk. It might go unnoticed for years until the text book is replaced, assuring your art will be enjoyed by generations of students to come


PS I was especially fond of making weird comments or foot notes to accompany the text, inserting my opinions or random facts or jokes.
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post #12 of 15
2/22/10 at 2:16pm
It could be worse, they could be spying on you via the webcam in your laptop.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/02...cbook_spy_row/

Seriously, what kind of teacher spies on a studient at home and then acouses them of (and I quote) improper behavior in his home?
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post #13 of 15
2/22/10 at 2:20pm
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Originally Posted by Ken Savage View Post
It could be worse, they could be spying on you via the webcam in your laptop.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/02...cbook_spy_row/

Seriously, what kind of teacher spies on a studient at home and then acouses them of (and I quote) improper behavior in his home?

I saw that on Huffpo earlier this morning.

Disturbing.

How could they legally enforce any sort of disciplinary action taken against the student if proof of said action was obtained through creepy Internet voyeurism?
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post #14 of 15
2/22/10 at 2:30pm
They can't and the FBI are now involved. I talked about this in my blog today, the school has no rights to inforce any sort of code of conduct on you in your own home.

Also what consistutes mproper behavior? If he is a teenage boy in his room with laptop on chances are he is doing something you wouldnt want to show his parents.


I think the school are going to be in a lot of trouble over this.
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post #15 of 15
2/22/10 at 4:00pm
Just glad this didn't happen in the South. Just more proof that there are stupid people in positions of authority everywhere.
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