Doodling Is Now A Criminal Offense ~ 12 Year Olds Facing Hard Time

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. A GREEN MARKER! It wasn't carved into the desk with a 6" knife. It could be washed off!

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 pre-adolescent 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."



She's 12 years old!



Alexa is no longer facing suspension, according a spokeswoman for the New York City Department of Education. Still, the case of the doodling preteen is raising concerns about the use of zero tolerance policies in schools.

Critics say schools and police have gone too far, overreacting and using well-intended rules for incidents involving nonviolent offenses such as drawing on desks, writing on other school property or talking back to teachers. "We are arresting them at younger and younger ages [in cases] that used to be covered with a trip to the principal's office, not sending children to jail," said Emma Jordan Simpson, executive director of the Children's Defense Fund, a national children's advocacy group.

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Comment by Jeff on March 14, 2010 at 10:20am
They are. Dark days indeed, especially since most Americans are poorly educated themselves and can't see the writing on the wall. Think this is bad? Read my post about the 6 year old. And then Google "Charlotte Iserbyt" on YouTube.
Comment by Jeff on March 14, 2010 at 10:07am
The small steps being taken, like this, in this direction will lead to larger steps in the future I'm afraid.

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