Spanish Teacher, Assistant Principal, Principal, NYPD Should All Be Schooled
Some more details have emerged about the arrest of NYC’s most copious junior high vandal, Alexa Gonzalez, the 12-year-old student busted for doodling on her desk with a washable marker. The unapologetic principal, Marilyn Grant, met with the girl’s mother on Friday and told her there’s nothing officials could do, it’s school policy to contact the NYPD for incidents like this so don’t blame her. For those keeping score, here’s the list of characters that unnecessarily ramped up the disciplinary process and each is more guilty than the next: Spanish teacher (For not giving the girl a wet sponge and an abrasive to wash off the desk); Assistant Principal (For not giving the girl detention instead of calling School Safety); Principal (For defending this egregious policy); NYPD (For actually slapping cuffs on a 12-year-old for such a minor offense).
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Editor-in-Chief:
I am glad that the principal could be facing disciplinary action from the superintendant, and I hope that they make her see what a terrible injustice was done to Alexa Gonzalez. I live in the UK and in this country the cops would never be called if someone was putting graffiti on a desk. It would just be a lunch time detention to clean it off and that would be it. Alexa has been treated terribly and community service, a book report and an essay is just a ludicrous punishment. I hope that guy I saw on the news video report was right – in that now the Department of Education has stepped in and said that it should not have happened she may get off with a book report – and that Alexa gets a full apology. Alexa, if you read this then me and all my friends in Churchdown, Gloucester in the UK are all on your side. You are NOT a bad person, you are a good person who a bad thing has happened to and your good character speaks for itself in that you have a perfect attendance record. We hope you have got back into school and are doing OK and that the people who did this to you have been brought to book.
Keep your head up Alexa,
Adam Ballard and friends at baziosaurus@hotmail.co.uk
Alexa, I said that you are a good person and I say it again. I think that it shows tremendous courage on your part to be standing up to those people who treated you like a criminal. I am talking of the class action lawsuit you are filing. Me and my friends wish you the very best of luck. We are sure that you and the other plaintiffs will come out on the winning side and those who did this to you will be held to account. Good luck Alexa, we are all rooting for you.
Adam Ballard and friends at baziosaurus@hotmail.co.uk