12-Year-Old Girl Arrested in School For Doodling on Desk
by Liliana Segura
Alternet.org
In yet another example of the disgusting effects of putting cops in schools, the NY Daily News reports:
A 12-year-old Queens girl was hauled out of school in handcuffs for an artless offense – doodling her name on her desk in erasable marker.
Alexa Gonzalez was scribbling a few words on her desk Monday while waiting for her Spanish teacher to pass out homework at Junior High School 190 in Forest Hills, she said.
“I love my friends Abby and Faith,” the girl wrote, adding the phrases “Lex was here. 2/1/10″ and a smiley face.
I think I was in 9th grade when I got caught doodling on my desk by my Geometry teacher, in pencil. “I’ll erase it!” I promised him with a smile and he lectured me about “defacing school property.”
Alexa Gonzalez got a hell of a lot more than a lecture. (more)