"There was no profanity, no hate. Just the words, "I love my friends Abby and Faith. Lex was here 2/1/10 :)" scrawled on the classroom desk with a green marker.
Alexa Gonzalez, an outgoing 12-year-old who likes to dance and draw, expected a lecture or maybe detention for her doodles earlier this month. Instead, the principal of the Junior High School in Forest Hills, New York, called police, and the seventh-grader was taken across the street to the police precinct.
Alexa's hands were cuffed behind her back, and tears gushed as she was escorted from school in front of teachers and -- the worst audience of all for a preadolescent girl -- her classmates.
"They put the handcuffs on me, and I couldn't believe it," Alexa recalled. "I didn't want them to see me being handcuffed, thinking I'm a bad person.""
Stuff like this is infuriating to me. What happened to the days when you got in trouble and had to stay after school to clean the desks? Those were only a couple of years ago. Now everyone is in such a lockdown mode that anytime there is anything at all they have to severely over exaggerate the situation.
On top of all this, schools are bad enough with peer pressure and self-esteem issues and the like. Something like this could really fuck with the psyche of a 12 year old and who knows how it may affect them later in life.
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