"12 Year Old Girl Arrested for Doodling on Desk"

Ms. Lary - 8th Grade

"12 Year Old Girl Arrested for Doodling on Desk"

Article: http://www.nydailynews.com/ny_local/education/2010/02/06/2010-02-06_cuffed_student_wont_draw_suspension.html

Video: http://abclocal.go.com/wabc/story?section=news/local&id=7259715

Read the article and watch the video.
You need to :
1. Respond to the article & video (full sentences, author's point of view..Is the author biased towards one side or the other?) (15 points)
2. Respond to 1 of your classmates comments.(10)

- Posted on February 8, 2010

that is not cool because she is 12 not an adult she just drawing on the desk at least it was not a sharpie or something like that would deserve detention for her not prison

you dont need to aresst a tweleve year girl now thats over reacting i mean throw her in detention not jail phhhhh that s nutty

Just put her in detention not jail you cruel cops shes 12 not 30!!!!! >:< It unfair they should NOT be aloud to arrest 12 year olds!!!

Wow. I bet those cops were about to get fired because they haven't arrested anyone so they arrested a 12 year old for their own selfish reasons of not getting fired. Poor girl... Bad cops.

I doodle when I`m bored. How can she be arrested if I doodle on my desk,well not at school. Those cops a really dumb for doing that to a 12 year old. They should have put her for detention, but being arrested -no way that's way too much. Those cops are so mean.

It is not fair that a girl got to go to jail for doodling on her desk. If somebody tried to take me go to jail for doodling on my desk. I would not go. I would run away, move to Alaska and change my name to Bob.

I doodle when I get bored! I think it's just expressing yourself, and all people need to do that at some point in time! It's just natural...

Wow! I wonder if the teacher called the cops or the teacher told the principal and the principal called the cops! I have never seen that happen before!

Wow, arrested for doodling on a desk, she shouldn't get arrested, everyone has to doodle sometime you know! Why didn't they just send her to ISS (detention) or something?

A 12 year old girl arrested for doodling on her desk. This is horrible she shouldn'tgrrrrrrrr have been arrested it would have just washed off anyways. This is so unnecessary to do especially handcuffing her and taking her out of school! This is so unfair all she should have gotten was a warning and maybe a detention but this shouldn't have happened and I don't think it will again!