...WE BRING YOU...MARKER MAYHEM...
DECEMBER 22--A 13-year-old boy was arrested Friday for using a permanent marker while in class at his Oklahoma City middle school, a violation of an obscure city ordinance.
According to an Oklahoma City Police Department report, the boy was spotted “in possession of a permanent marker” by Roosevelt Middle School teacher DeLynn Woodside. The 50-year-old educator told cop Miguel Campos that the student was “writing on a piece of paper, which caused it to bleed over onto the desk.”Woodside, pictured at right, reported that the child, whose name was redacted by police from the report, attempted to hide the marker when she asked him for it.
Campos reported that he allowed Woodside, a seventh grade math teacher, to “sign a citation” against the boy, who was then transported to the Community Intervention Center, a juvenile holding facility. A police sergeant subsequently “booked the marker into the property room.”
A police spokesman referred to the student’s bust as a “citizen’s arrest” effectuated by Woodside.
The marker ban--which apparently is aimed at curbing graffiti--stems from a city ordinance making it illegal to possess spray paint or a permanent marker on private property (without the owner’s permission).
Luckily, the creature pictured above didn't just up and EAT the lad. Yet.
David made a great running, over the shoulder, catch:
David made a great running, over the shoulder, catch:
"The kid's got a great argument for false arrest and unlawful imprisonment, IF it was a public middle school. "...illegal to possess spray paint or a permanent marker on private property..."
(I consulted my wife's "school law" grad class knowledge and several decades' experience and requirements to stay current for certification on this one. Let's hope his parents can afford a decent lawyer to take the teacher's home and life savings from her... )"
(I consulted my wife's "school law" grad class knowledge and several decades' experience and requirements to stay current for certification on this one. Let's hope his parents can afford a decent lawyer to take the teacher's home and life savings from her... )"
4 comments:
Getting the police involved in these matters is extreme. Seems like something vindictive totalitarian leftists would do. I more rational and traditional approach would be the warning, detention, suspension, expulsion route. And make the kid clean up the mess or pay for it.
Knowing how I was as a seventh grader - I could see the kid using the paper as an excuse - "Hey I wasn't writing on a desk! I was writing on paper and it accidentally went through!" So that doesn't necessarily wash with me.
As to the woman is the circus tent; She looks like she is one of the decent members of the Tea Party. ( right ).
Pretty much my thoughts as well. Calling the cops is something lefties do as a matter of course, especially teachers. This I know from being close enough to 80,000 college kids who have their own police force(s) yet cannot begin to keep up with what folks today feel is a police-able offense. 13 is still too young to have any sense whatsoever and pretty soon we'll be needing even more cops than we have and what we have is twice as many as we should need. This is why the cops recommend calling them instead of working out the small shit by yourself.
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When I was in grade school we still had frickin ink wells. Try as one might, there was no way in hell you WEREN'T going to get infrickindelible black ink from staining the desk, your papers, your clothing and always the tips of your fingers.Going to school meant bringing your own cleaning supplies because it really didn't matter how messy you began the day, as long as how clean it was when you left the joint.
The kid's got a great argument for false arrest and unlawful imprisonment, IF it was a public middle school. "...illegal to possess spray paint or a permanent marker on private property..."
(I consulted my wife's "school law" grad class knowledge and several decades' experience and requirements to stay current for certification on this one. Let's hope his parents can afford a decent lawyer to take the teacher's home and life savings from her... )
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