First, Patrick Timoney was nearly suspended for bringing a 2-inch LEGO gun to school in NY. Today comes news that a 12-year old in Queens was arrested for doodling on her desk with an erasable marker.
Alexa Gonzalez must have been drawing gang signs and threats to warrant such action, right? Nope. She used her lime-green marker to write things like, “Lex was here,” and “I love my friends.”
When her Spanish class teacher caught her, she he was led out of school in handcuffs and taken to the police station across the street.
“I started crying, like, a lot,” Alexa told the Daily News. “I made two little doodles. … It could be easily erased. To put handcuffs on me is unnecessary. I just thought I’d get a detention. I thought maybe I would have to clean [the desk].”
At a time where violence and bullying are causing serious problems in our school, these types of stories make it all the more clear what’s wrong with our nation’s schools.
What do you think? Are schools focusing on the wrong issues?
“What do you think? Are schools focusing on the wrong issues?”
Duh. Like educating the ignorant fools who are running the schools. Instead of advancing as a society we are slowly self-destructing….as evidenced by this story.
Common sense? What’s that you say? Right, exactly what I thought you said…..
Fire the teacher.
Idiots. I hope her parents press charges.
Alexa Gonzalez says “I made two little doodles. … It could be easily erased.”
What a goofball…It would not have to be erased if she had not doodled in the first place