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DJCThu Feb-18-10 02:42 PM
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"Zero Tolerance run Amok"
Thu Feb-18-10 02:43 PM by DJC

  

          

http://www.cnn.com/2010/CRIME/02/18/new.york.doodle.arrest/index.html?hpt=C1

(CNN) -- 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.

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 preadolescent 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."

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.

  

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MSUThu Feb-18-10 02:50 PM
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#1. "RE: Zero Tolerance run Amok"
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Beat ya to it http://www.pcqanda.com/dc/dcboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=4&topic_id=179206&mesg_id=179206&listing_type=search And the funny thing is, you you replied to it .

MSU

  

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jazz4freeThu Feb-18-10 03:25 PM
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#2. "RE: Zero Tolerance run Amok"
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He's exausted the internet and is now doing reruns.

  

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DJCThu Feb-18-10 03:31 PM
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#3. "RE: Zero Tolerance run Amok"
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Hey I cannot remember everything. I do cannot claim to be error free, I am not like James and his leader who claim to be right in all things.

  

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jespur62Thu Feb-18-10 07:00 PM
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#4. "RE: Zero Tolerance run Amok"
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so what should they do to kids who deface, vandalize, whatever you want to call this?

  

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MSUThu Feb-18-10 07:55 PM
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#5. "RE: Zero Tolerance run Amok"
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After school detention, clean the desk, or both. Certainly not haul a 12 year old away in cuffs.

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Ed W.Thu Feb-18-10 08:01 PM
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#6. "RE: Zero Tolerance run Amok"
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How about an ankle bracelet and juvenile hall for a couple years?

Ed W.

"IN GOD WE still TRUST - ALL OTHERS, WE used to MONITOR"

  

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Paul DThu Feb-18-10 09:02 PM
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#7. "RE: Zero Tolerance run Amok"
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And then there's this:-

Pa. schools spy on students using laptop webcams, claims lawsuit

A suburban Philadelphia school district remotely activates the cameras in school-provided laptops to spy on students in their homes, a lawsuit filed in federal court Tuesday alleged.

According to the lawsuit filed by a high school student and his parents, the Lower Merion School District of Ardmore, Pa. has spied on students and families by "indiscriminate use of and ability to remotely activate the webcams incorporated into each laptop issued to students by the School District."

Approximately 1,800 students at the district's two high schools have been given laptops as part of a state- and federally-funded "one-to-one" student-to-laptop initiative.

Michael and Holly Robbins of Penn Valley, Pa., said they first found out about the alleged spying last November after their son Blake was accused by a Harriton High School official of "improper behavior in his home" and shown a photograph taken by his laptop...

http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9158818/Pa._schools_spy_on_students_using_laptop_webcams_claims_lawsuit?taxonomyId=84




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MykThu Feb-18-10 09:15 PM
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#8. "RE: Zero Tolerance run Amok"
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Holy Crap!

I think some administrators need to be visited in their homes.

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MSUThu Feb-18-10 09:18 PM
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#9. "RE: Zero Tolerance run Amok"
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Now those school officials do need to be taken away in cuffs.

MSU

  

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DJCSun Feb-21-10 03:50 AM
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#10. "RE: Zero Tolerance run Amok"
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http://www.cnn.com/2010/CRIME/02/20/laptop.suit/index.html?hpt=T2
The FBI has opened an investigation into allegations that a Pennsylvania school official remotely monitored a student at home, a law enforcement official with knowledge of the case told CNN on Saturday.

  

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