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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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
I think this girl is the ABSOLUTE HOTTEST 12 year old girl on the planet.
I for one am pleased to see that America is becoming more and more like Saudi Arabia.
Osama bin Laden has won. He frightened you into destroying your own freedom for nothing. Now you're taking it out on children. One man with a few box-cutters and a few fanatical friends destroyed the USA. He was right about how weak you are.
I admit being arrested at school is over the top. But only 15 years ago you would have been pulled into the principals office and cained for doing this and if Alexa did it on public property she would have been arrested. No wonder half the tweens think they are untouchable. Everyone stands up for them. My daughter is 13 and if she did anything like this she would face the consequences (I hope not this harsh). But everyone must realise THIS GIRL WAS IN THE WRONG. She has now learnt the hard way!! Maybe now she won't be a satistic
I'm a teacher and this penalty was ridiculous. At the school I teach at the penalty would have been – first offence, warning. second offence, lunchtime detention which is finished when the student has cleaned any graffiti off all desks in the classroom. Most kids are decent and want to do the right thing but have lapses when they get bored – especially at the younger high school ages. They genuinely dont think about "If I do this, someone actually has to clean this". Do it the right way (no need to yell and berate etc, its the class rules, just do it, talk with her about it after she has finished) and the girl wont do it a third time, and will actually have a better understanding about respect.
If you … well, basically, commit an abuse on her all she (and the rest of the class she is in) learns is that authority is evil and inflexible and the teacher should not be trusted. This creates a hostile situation and other rules will be regarded not as the right thing to do but as some unfair imposition. We do not live in a police state in the real world, there is no reason why school should be radically different to the real world in this sense.
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