http://www.azcentral.com/offbeat/articles/2010/02/05/20100205doodling-student-arrested05-ON.html Alright, something is going on with New York. Whoever decided to have her arrested is an imbecile. In 2nd grade, I drew on a desk, the teacher just had me clean them all at lunch. And a month or two ago, towards the end of Biology, the girl in front of me had drawn on her desk, the teacher came over and just handed her paper towels and cleaning fluid and asked her to clean it up and not do it again. THAT is what a smart person does. Having an arrest take place is what a ******* does. Thoughts on this idiocy?
I live in New York and someone wrote 'HIPPOPOTAMUS' on my desk in Chemistry and nothing happened. >:| Seriously, that's ridiculous. :/ I could see maybe giving the kid a detention if it was large, in Sharpie, obscene, etc, but arrest?
I don't understand why they arrested her. Defacement of school property is, at most, suspension from the school, but that's for the school to decide, not the police. I mean, my teachers always made us clean the desks if we were caught marking on them. The worst cases being when someone wrote answers for a test on them. Hell, sometimes we'd have a written conversation, we wouldn't even know who with. You write something, the next day you find whoever had that seat next wrote back.
Nice to see something done. I doubt that girl is going to draw on the desks again. Nip it in the bud. No more graffiti.
Well, I'm so glad that they put so much effort into people who dare to write their names on a desk. Heaven forbid that they put their resources and time into something more productive such as preventing people bringing weapons and drugs into schools. As many people have said already, at my schools, if we wrote on the desk and got caught we would be given detention and made to clean it off. Though I do remember people carving into the desks at one point so that it couldn't be removed ¬¬ Also, we used to have conversations too xD it was a great way to kill time, especially in science.
Even if she carved into the desk, worst they'd have her do is make her buy a new one and get her suspended. It should be a fucking concern if they see her write suicidal or violent things on a desk, but this happy-go-lucky child said she loved her friends.
What's with all the school related stupidity lately? First the Lego gun, now some doodle? C'mon, it's not like she was scribbling a Death Note on the side of her desk. I caught one of my fifth grade students doodling on his desk with a highlighter. I kept him in at recess and has him wash the desks with cleaner and paper towels. He learned his lesson. No need to call the po-po for that.
We don't even have to clean our desk afterwards. :D I've never seen anyone ever getting any sort of punishment for writing on a desk. This is seriously stupid.
this is even scarier... why arent police trying to crack down on this... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZkFyvmnWggE
damn thats harsh I always used to write on my desk :O I think my essay on what Ive learnt is that some people have no common sense XD
the only time i actually thought someone deserved punishment for writing on a desk is when someone drew a picture of my pregnant LA teacher being hanged. :/ but seriously? this is horrible.
I can't belive they veiw doodling on a desk is a viable reason to arrest someone it's just wong is what that is.
I can understand that on the grounds of vandalism you can be arrested, but this only tells me that teachers don't have a self assertion to attempt to discipline their own pupils. This pupil wasn't even writing gangsta graffiti, this was essentially a time capasule, leaving her mark for future generations to see. It may be slightly misguided but not criminal worthy, it allows creativity and free will to take place further allowing a child to be a child. I have to admit that recently one of my friends wrote his name on a desk, I say wrote he carved it in the wood, and I followed by writing 'wuz here!' in pen, just a little playfully. Later he went on to further carve in my name and inciting that I did it. And when my headmaster questioned me about it, I denied knowing who it was, my friend doing the same. He's now tasked me with finding the cuplrit. And though I dislike what he did, even a few of my other friends getting pissed off about what he did, it is a minor incident and he is my friend. If the teacher of the class or onlookers took the same lenient view on this, one woman may not have to go through being humiliated.
