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bassexpander · Joined: 13 Sep 2007 Location: Someplace you'd rather be.

This girl does not look 12. I'm not saying she's not, but geesh.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,584933,00.html?test=latestnews

SeoulMan99 · Joined: 02 Aug 2009 Location: Seoul

The only thing sadder than them calling the police in this case is that the police actually took a 12 year old off in handcuffs! Public schools and police are becoming ridiculously overbearing these days. I just read a separate story about a 5 or 6 year old boy who was being suspended for because his lego action figure had a gun attached to it. The gun was literally an inch or so in length, and he was 5! The principal has the final decision if the gun in question merits a suspension, and she decided it did. Wow.

Mr. Pink · Joined: 21 Oct 2003 Location: China

What the hell is going on in America's schools? Seriously? Where did common sense go? I read these forums and everyone is complaining that Koreans have no common sense. I think they should look at their own countries first.

Kids are kids. Arresting kids for:

- bringing toy guns to school. WTF does this say about society? Kids are bringing real guns, so do to fear no guns are allowed? WTF? Shocked

- kids taking pics of each other with their cell phones and sending them to each other = child porn? WTF? It's called puberty. Sending them to jail for 10-20 years because they are horny? Damn.
- kids fighting with other kids = call the cops and arrested for assault. What ever happened to kids being allowed to have the playground scrap and parents and principals being involved?
- kids writing on school property = arrested? WTF? Shocked

Seriously.

No offense to Americans, but your country is starting to sound like a police state. It is seriously heading there. The government is involved in all aspect of your family's business.

Canada too is heading there, but we aren't even in the same league as America.

I wonder why the hell there aren't more American teachers working abroad. I'd want to kill myself if I had to work with all those constraints and the lack of common sense that administrators seem to be exhibiting lately.

The Gipkik · Joined: 30 Mar 2009

Yes, but we're only getting the tip of the iceberg here in this terse account. This girl has probably been a huge problem child in class, has written on her desk repeatedly and/or defaced school property on other occasions and reams of other acts of defiance and vandalism. Bad attitude is also written all over her smirky face. The proverbial straw that broke the camel's ass.

djsmnc · Joined: 20 Jan 2003 Location: Dave's ESL Cafe

If you were stranded alone on a small island with her after a plane wreck for about a week, would you forget she was 12?

pkang0202 · Joined: 09 Mar 2007

tzechuk · Joined: 20 Dec 2004

SeoulMan99 · Joined: 02 Aug 2009 Location: Seoul

[quote="Mr. Pink"]What the hell is going on in America's schools? Seriously? Where did common sense go? I read these forums and everyone is complaining that Koreans have no common sense. I think they should look at their own countries first.
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The population difference between the States and Canada will mean you will see many more examples of general nuttiness like this. The situation is not as bad as you're imagining. I have a good friend who is a 6th grade teacher in IL and her school district isn't nearly as bad as this. A lot of it comes down to the people running each district and school. Leftists in this country thoroughly control our school systems, and they have taken the anti-gun movement to the extreme in cases like this. I agree it is better not to have violent toys in schools, but does a 5 year-old with a lego cop with a tiny gun require a suspension? I would be embarrassed if of myself if I was that principal.

I was actually a victim of something like this when I was in the 3rd grade. Well, I was bringing a signed picture of Stan Musial to school to show people and while on the bus the picture, which was framed, broke in my bag, and when I opened the bag I reached in and grabbed it and saw the broken glass. Well, the bus driver saw this and reported me as having a weapon. I received a one day suspension for this. Mind you I did not pull broken glass out and show it around or threaten anyone.

This world is getting so uptight, and it isn't making a damn difference. Just in the last few years I can think of examples of teenage girls posting videos of 8 of them beating 1, extreme hazing etc.

bassexpander · Joined: 13 Sep 2007 Location: Someplace you'd rather be.

jmuns · Joined: 09 Sep 2009 Location: earth

Rory_Calhoun27 · Joined: 14 Feb 2009

Mr. Pink · Joined: 21 Oct 2003 Location: China

Juregen · Joined: 30 May 2006

ThingsComeAround · Joined: 07 Nov 2008

To add to the list of problems in NYC schools,

The Rubber Room
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y7O7C25U73w

I wonder about the future our youth will have to grow up with- tougher rules on those that should be enforcing rules/morals/ethics, whathaveyou. Like in Robocop 2 when they gave him 100 stupid directives and he talked to kids that robbed the electronics store, yet he shot at the dude smoking a cig

Fox · Joined: 04 Mar 2009

This kind of thing is ridiculous, but over-reaction by school staff is nothing new. It's just that, in other cultures and/or in previous times in America, instead of the over-reaction coming in the form of police involvement, it came in the form of merciless beatings.

The medium has changed, and our ability to witness it at a national level has increased, but the behavioral pattern itself has existed since time immemorial.