Every time you hear of a new high (low?) in stupidity, there’s something else out there to raise (lower?) the bar even more.
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. Strangely, Woodside’s Facebook page reveals that her “likes and interests” include the official “Sharpie Permanent Markers” page on Facebook.
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.”
On another heinous crime front, there’s the report that includes the creative term, “vehicular masturbation.” I guess that’s why the perp has a smile on her face.
#59–brm==I agree with you. I think taking the marker away is as far as it should go. That is what school is all about: teaching the rules, teaching conformity, teaching submission. Calling the cops does violence to the learning experience.
Course that is all absent school policies and any history/additional facts that may apply. I assume there is more to the story we don’t know, but I don’t want to be naive. What are the odds this was a first offense and we have all the facts?
Seque to the issue was “bad enough” the locals had a law on the books that cops would enforce and we have a violation. Rather difficult to just ignore that from a position of total ignorance? But I can go with that. Afterall, my experience as a kiddie was that the kids were all right and the teachers always wrong. Was that your experience too?
Interesting.
In pre-feminist America, the best that women could hope for was a career in education, thus education drew the intellectual cream of American women.
Fast forward to the present, where education is the career of choice for those just above flipping burgers and education diploma mill state colleges have SAT scores that would embarrass a military academy for troubled kids.
So before, Americans were educated by best, and now, mostly by the mediocre, or worse.
Pretty obvious too.
Irony.
Okay I found the real facts.
“A city ordinance aimed at graffiti says no one is allowed to possess spray paint or a permanent marker on private property without the permission of the property owner or the person in control of the property.”
If she called the cops first without going through her superiors she needs her fat butt drop kicked out the door.
I can see that none of you learned anything from the “respect authority” video that was posted earlier. Please go back and review it.
Now where did I put that old ‘demon dialer’ I used to have?
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I expect a GPS locator on your cars…each and every one of you.
You folks should never have mistreated a member of the Teacher’s Union, Holder is watching you all.
And unlike enemy combatants, they aren’t concerned about violating your rights.
Hope you all are pleased with yourselves…no doubt, as a poster here, I too will fall under their watchful eye.
Grab your ankles, get ready to have your body cavities probed, they are coming.
#66 – I’d hate to be the person that has to probe her body cavities. I’d need a gas mask, haz-mat suit, salad tongs and a camping shovel. Not to mention I’d have to call in the Orkin man 24 hours before getting started.
In my day sharpies were too expensive to own, and we just carved our initials in the desk with a knife
Hey you kids: Get that pen off my lawn!
Meanwhile bullying in the schools continues unchecked and unpunished, because it builds character for fighting wars in the near future. And “they” don’t want to try recruiting foot soldiers from a load of well adjusted kids, who never learned to hate anyone.