Girl, 12, Taken Away in Handcuffs for Doodling on Her Desk; Dept. of Ed. Admits To Excessive Punishment

You should never give a mexican any sort of markers or spray paint. I'm just sayin

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That is a photo of a twelve year old? I suppose next we'll be seeing her doing commercials with a movie contract offered. Some people will do anything to get noticed. She resembles very much like the broad that rolled me in Atlantic City a while back. LOL

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This could well be a large [ several people involved ] conspricy to get
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when was the last time people where in school? schools are like prisons now! they went overboard. kids are no longer allowed to make mistakes and grow and learn from them. its just punish. i remember in high school me and some friends with no 1st period class would volunteer and sign in the late kids. we did this for the whole year, but towards the last day this teacher went crazy on us and actually made one of my friend break down and cry. mind you she's a honors kid who is just loved by her teachers, and to have a random teacher screaming and threatening to report you and make your last day of high school horrible was just crazy. i am sooooooo happy i'm in college and don't have to deal with this crap

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While I do think that this girl deserved some punishment for doodling on the desk and thereby not really paying attention to what was being taught in class I don't think she deserved what she got at all. Even if that had been a permanent marker she did not deserve that kind of punishment. Yes, she definitely should have been punished by having to do some community service and/or do some extra work at the school or maybe have to stay after school for awhile or be denied some priviledges like maybe going to a school dance or something would have been more then sufficient punishment. What the heck were handcuffs doing in the school? Why would they ever be in the school? Taking the girl to the police station was really going overboard and costing the tax payers more money that was not necessary to be spent; she did NOT commit a serious crime. Most all of us did some foolish things when we were young to and a lot of things that we did were even worse then what this young lady did and yet we weren't handcuffed and taken to the police for them. I think it sounds like this school system needs to do a lot of revamping of how it handles incidents in school like this.

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Actually NO I didn't doodle on my desk growing up. Nor did I doodle on anything other then paper or my OWN PERSONAL THINGS. I was taught far better then that tyvm. If it wasn't mine I didn't take it, write on it, use it without permission, etc. I was taught respect of myself and of others; a simple old lesson that not many kids seem to know today!
Is that saying I was a perfect child? Absolutely not, I made my mistakes; but they damn well didn't hurt or affect anyone or anything but myself. Btw how do you know what type of attitude this child had towards teachers? Do you know her personally? Just because something ISN'T mention in articles such as this doesn't mean it didn't or hadn't happened previously. Who's to say that this wasn't the first time she "doodled" on school property? That was my bottom line point in my first reply to this entire thing, NO ONE has all the facts concerning this and therefore we can only use imagination and educated guesses at best in our replies. I did state that I believed the handcuffs were a bit much in this case, even if the overall scare tactic worked the way it was intended to, it was still excessive. If doodling on a desk is what kids do....then perhaps there's a bigger issue that we're failing to respond to.

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Ravatar I certainly agree with you. That is an excellent suggestion that the school officials should be made to write on the board that they will not violate the rights of others. I do believe in this childs case a lot of her rights were badly violated.

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Ok people she is 12! TWELVE! It's a damn desk and by God her parents DO pay money for her to go to school so it's whatever. She wrote on a desk. Big freaking whoop. Get over it and move on. And for all you who CLAIM you've never been "disrespectful" or "defaced other people's property".... You're a damn liar. We're all sinners you dumbasses. So, if you have a tattoo you're defacing God's property. And we are all disrespectful because we are all sinners. So get over yourselves and get a life, instead of wasting it by constantly commenting on this article. ONCE is enough!

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WOW!!! You are an Air Force? How many planes do you have? Should we be scrambling fighter jets?

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This just proves that the teachers and administration of the school are unable to do their jobs. They should be replaced and quickly. We need to reward good teachers and other school personnel and get rid of the ones who are completely incapable of carrying out their duties.

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If she were my daughter I would pull her out of that school immediately, get an attorney and sue the pants off the school! In my book that is abuse! The punishment should match the action.

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This is a perfect example of why ALL educators in contact with children or teenagers SHOULD HAVE A PSYCHIATRIC EVALUATION before being allowed to instruct anyone. I'm no professional but I think this principal probably has some serious authority issues. This kind of hazardous exposure to the youth of America has to stop, because it only worsens these situations and damages the perception of authority to the youth- possibly leading to even further complications ahead. Imagine what this poor girl is going to grow up thinking about any authority figure? How will she perceive law enforcement officers? How will she perceive her future educators? Also, what will her peers think- they saw her walk away in handcuffs. It is a shame that young Americans, our future, will grow up with a distorted view of authority, only because a few teachers or principals don't want to deal with the normal behaviors of children or teenagers! If they don't like kids, or dealing with kids- then obviously it is not the line of work they should be in. If you don't like the heat- get out of the kitchen.

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I am sick and tired of reading about incidents like this of severe overreaction to the tiniest things a child or teenager does. But the school system is inherently bad and was designed that way for the purpose of making lively, spirited youngsters into passive, unquestioning, obedient adult serfs and slaves.

It is already bad enough that children are forced to sit at desks for hours 5 days a week and be sedentary for 12 long years, staring at white squares while a teacher drones on and on. But this fascist control through fear factory is very good at slowly killing the spirit and squeezing any remaining youthful joy and spontaneity out of the sensitive child, creating armies of future office drones, soldiers, and laborers who have thoroughly learned how to sit at desks and abjectly obey orders. Many kids get kicked out of school and eventually wind up in prison or dead at an early age. Some clever, sly, and conniving kids figure out how to kiss up to teachers, tattle-tale, and milk the system, all while bullying other kids. A few fortunate ones somehow manage to transcend this miserable system.

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These people are not cops and so I think they could be arrested for false imprisonment for one. If anybody besides a cop or their girl friends ever put handcuffs on my sons (ages 14&12) and they wouldn't be able to run far enough or fast enough to get away from me.

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Maybe this dangerous criminal should be put on death row? Whatever happened to common sense? This girl did nothing to deserve that kind of treatment. Where do schools find these moron principals?

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you can't over discipline over every little thing or when punishment is needed for something really serious it will have little effect. Educators these days seem crazy. They need to have all educators take psychiatric exams before they are allowed near our children. And one thing for sure if ur gonna be involved with children you should at least like children.

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I agree with all those who say we need to take our rights back!! Most of the police now days are "dirty cops" , and the teachers do not want to do their jobs. Like someone else said, they just want quite little zombies in their classrooms. This is just ridiculous!! What this young girl did is the same thing most of us did when we were in school, except hers was erasable. When I was in school, kids use to carve stuff in the desk with scissors.

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BRING HER DOWN!!!!! TOUGH LUCK THAT SHE HAS TO BE THE EXAMPLE, BUT SOMEONE HAD TO BE! THINK ANYONE ELSE IN HER SCHOOL WILL BE DEFACING SCHOOL PROPERTY AGAIN? THOSE WHO DON'T AGREE, ALLOW HER TO COME TO YOUR ROOM AND DOODLE ON YOUR LAPTOP COMPUTER SCREEN OR ON YOUR CAR. IF YOU ALLOW THAT, THEN I UNDERSTAND THE SOURCE OF YOUR STUPID COMMENT. WTG OBAMA! :)

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