12 year old girl arrested for doodling on her desk, sues NYC

[Krugerrand]

That school needs some of those naked body scanners so they can be sure the students aren't hiding any contraband (aka washable markers) by their unmentionables.

To save on shipping, with that order they should get some tasers to subdue any violent types that refuse to surrender their contraband.

 

[John Taylor]

John you put words in peoples mouths. If parents are responsible for there childs safety. So to say they push the parents aside for pat downs in questionable at best. The parents are usually standing right there. Now being apogist, not. As i said the school handed it the wrong way. Since were now being unresponsible parents, now lets call her a child since she doent know rights and wrong. She should have cleaned it up. Calling the cops was not a right thing for the school to do.

Parents ARE responsible for their own children.

 

[haaaylee]

One more time... in English?

seeing "there" instead of "their" when j6p writes is starting to driving me insane . . .

 

[Sandman33]

In regards to parenting. One must take into consideration that many parents today did not have parents themselves.

Many of the parents are single parents. Many of them work. Leaving little time for actual parenting. And really no family structure to foster morals or ideals.

If todays parents didn't have parents themselves....how can you expect them to be any good at it? How can you expect them to produce stable families when they never had one themselves?

The destruction of the family is most likely the single largest factor in the rise of the police nanny state. And I for one do not believe it to be an accident. People are becoming hedonistic animals. Evolution is being steered in the direction of decline.

 

[angelatc]

Where has parenting gone in the last few years? Between 15 year old girl getting touched in airport security to 12 year old doodling on desk. Not saying they derserve this. It's just where are the parents? Shouldnt they teach not to destory property, and not allow strangers to touch diffrent parts of there bodies.

You have nothing to indicate that her parents wouldn't have punished her if the situation hadn't been blown entirely out of proportion. Who in their right mind calls the police when a kid doodles on a desk?

It actually puts the parent in an awkward spot. We want to support the administrators, but priorities can't help but shift in the face of such extremism.

 

[angelatc]

They should have called the parents. Oh i see now, you dont think people have a right to protest a debate on public property. But now you are saying munciple property. But still this girl is almost a teenager.

I have an 11.5 year old. He has brand new dinosaur sheets and sleeps with a stuffed animal sometimes when he's away from home. He's probably a lot closer to her age than the image you're conjecturing.

If the school called me and told me he was misbehaving, he'd be punished. Hopefully twice - once there, and again here at home.

But insisting that a kid should go to jail for doodling on a school desk is absurd.

 

[nbhadja]

I used to carve stuff in my desk. I bet they would give me the death penalty.

 

[moostraks]

What a horrible story.

Hope everything works out well for the rest of the children.

And for you.

thanks for the sympathy. As the time draws nearer her 18th birthday the world someone seems a little lighter. She is developing a sound hatred for the state,though, which is greater than any lecture I could have given on the subject. She will have two roads to choose from and I hope for her sake she picks the right one.

We have sheltered the other children to the best of our ability which in turn makes the state think even more we are hiding something. We have had many a hard decision to make and I would not wish anyone to suffer the pain we have these past few years. The fear is indescribable...

 

[moostraks]

Thanks for sharing moostraks. Now I know what Tony Soprano really meant when he said (regarding parenting) about their daughter "If she finds out we are powerless, we are f$%%kd!"

:oYour welcome. If I can save one person who might walk our path one day, then my time is well spent. Too true about what Tony Soprano said...LOL!

 

[JosephTheLibertarian]

I used to leave a pin on my chair @ class change. I wonder if anyone got pinched

 

[j6p]

seeing "there" instead of "their" when j6p writes is starting to driving me insane . . .

How mature

 

[j6p]

Parents ARE responsible for their own children.

Before you were claiming, parents are not responsible.

 

[j6p]

In regards to parenting. One must take into consideration that many parents today did not have parents themselves.

Many of the parents are single parents. Many of them work. Leaving little time for actual parenting. And really no family structure to foster morals or ideals.

If todays parents didn't have parents themselves....how can you expect them to be any good at it? How can you expect them to produce stable families when they never had one themselves?

The destruction of the family is most likely the single largest factor in the rise of the police nanny state. And I for one do not believe it to be an accident. People are becoming hedonistic animals. Evolution is being steered in the direction of decline.

You are blowing this out of context, this girl has parents.

 

[j6p]

Wait, are you actually blaming the parent for their child being touched in the airport!?!!

i guess all rape victims wouldn't have gotten raped if they had just had better parents.

Again, how mature.

 

[angelatc]

In regards to parenting. One must take into consideration that many parents today did not have parents themselves.

And one must take into consideration that kids are kids. They do dumb stuff, and they do misbehave.

To imply that doodling on a desk is symptomatic of a weak family unit is laughable.

 

[Freedom 4 all]

It's getting to the point I can't tell real stories from satire. This is satire right ... right?

 

[MelissaWV]

John you put words in peoples mouths. If parents are responsible for there childs safety. So to say they push the parents aside for pat downs in questionable at best. The parents are usually standing right there. Now being apogist, not. As i said the school handed it the wrong way. Since were now being unresponsible parents, now lets call her a child since she doent know rights and wrong. She should have cleaned it up. Calling the cops was not a right thing for the school to do.

I was the one who started the criticism of language use.

In all fairness, I really cannot decipher the quoted paragraph fully. The sentence fragments, misspellings, incorrect words, and generally structure muddles it, and I was trying to follow the argument. Effective communication is important, and asking for clarification is not "immature."

 

[j6p]

I was the one who started the criticism of language use.

In all fairness, I really cannot decipher the quoted paragraph fully. The sentence fragments, misspellings, incorrect words, and generally structure muddles it, and I was trying to follow the argument. Effective communication is important, and asking for clarification is not "immature."

Eh no one asked for clarification. Everyone was throwing around imature posts.

 

[j6p]

It's not like you made typing mistakes before

 

[MelissaWV]

Eh no one asked for clarification. Everyone was throwing around imature posts.

I did ask for clarification. I did not recognize your post as English, as it lacked the sentence structure and spelling necessary to decipher it as such. Perhaps you have a valid, insightful point to make, but I can't understand it.

It's not like you made typing mistakes before

I don't think I am prone to making mistakes that obscure the meanings of my posts. The quoted post, for instance, says the opposite of what I think you intended to say ("It's not like you haven't made typing mistakes before."), but I have no real way of determining what the actual intent was. It just tends to leave everything a bit

You could take it personally, or you could ignore it, or you could choose to take a secondary glance at your posts to determine whether or not they convey the meaning you intend.