13yo student writes 'Okay' on her desk, gets arrested.

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Originally posted by: dennilfloss
Click on the principal's name to see a bigger pic and read her message.

http://schools.nycenet.edu/Region7/is201/

Dyker's mission statement is "Academic Excellence Key to Success."

She should change it to "Grammer not important school good."

Come and be a "Dykerite" and get a fine education to prepare you for high school.

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Originally posted by: waggy

Originally posted by: dennilfloss
Our desks used to have 50yo carvings on them, done with pocket knives.

yeap!

i remember being able to carry knives to school. a few times having the teacher ask if i had mine so he could open something. You could not bring in something silly. but a regular pocket knife was ok.



oh if we got caught doing something like this in school we had to clean ALL the desk after school.

I carried a knife in school too... but I went to a violence-free private school. It wasn't until after Columbine that schools like mine started getting serious about security.

 

[Suspicious-Teach8788]

Originally posted by: Jeff7
Can the parents of the other students have the principal arrested for causing a disruption in class and wasting everyone's money?

Originally posted by: irishScott
Wow. I've been in public school all of my life in this country. Currently a college freshman.

WTF. The most we got for that in elementary school was to scrub it off and then we had to stay in and clean up the other kids' messes at recess (and that was only if was really bad).

Middle school we would just have 30 min of after school detention, and High School no one gave a sh!t.

WTF.

I think at my school the teacher would have said, "Erase that!" and that would have been the end of it. Pen or pencil usually erases from those desks.


It's a good thing she doesn't watch South Park. If she wrote "Mmmkay?" on the desk, they'd probably have interpreted it as a gang sign or terroristic threat, and she'd be in the CIA's tender mercies now.

Exactly. In HS, if we got caught for that, I think they would've just shaken their heads and told you to erase it. Given my nerdy HS, most people would erase it themselves after being caught. Might be different with a more average HS, but yea. Seriously. At most you would have to stay behind to clean the desks. but then again this is junior high, so they take things more seriously. In HS, you might get the lecture that you're nearly an adult and you need to grow up.

If you carved it in with something sharp, then.... well forget getting in trouble for a knife/blade, but you would then have to probably pay up for that table.

I can't imagine anyone getting into SERIOUS trouble for writing with a pen or pencil. Maybe if you used a sharpie, that would be different, but ballpoint? Come on. Pencil? PLEASE... we have magic rubs for that reason.

 

[eleison]

Kids now a days are too rowdy. I bet she's done things like this before. Actually, knowing several teachers, I bet theres more to the story than this. This is what probably broke the camels back though..

 

[amdhunter]

Man, I was worried the student was White, since it got so much media attention. I was relieved that it was just your standard arrest of a minority student for something trivial.

Thank goodness the Police/School systems are doing their jobs properly. :thumbsup: