Teen using indelible marker at OKC school arrested
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Mark this down, using an indelible marker in school in Oklahoma City can get you arrested.
A police report says a 13-year-old student at Roosevelt Middle School was arrested last Friday after a seventh-grade math teacher said the marker bled through paper onto a desk and that the student was seen writing on the desk with the marker.
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.
The best part of the entire story? The teacher made a "citizen's arrest" of the student. Yeah. Sure am glad there are no other issues in that school that "arresting" students over arcane laws is the best choice of action. Now, the child did cause a school desk to be defaced; no one is arguing that. Make the parents pay for cleaning, certainly. But to have a 13-year old arrested over possession of a permanent marker? Are you kidding me?
They would have had to call the SWAT team if the kid had a pack of Sharpies...
That is all.
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We had an asshole principal at our HS when our son was attending. Our son came home one day and said the principal told him that if he mouthed off one more time he'd be hauled out of the school in handcuffs for the world to see. I made a trip to the school the following day and made it perfectly clear that heads would roll if this were to happen. Fortunately the superintendent was a kind, reasonable man who seemed pretty fed up with this guy. Needless to say, a week or so later our son mentioned in passing that for some strange reason the principal had all the sudden started being nice to him!
I guess a spray can would be ruled as a WMD.
Since when is a public school "private property"? And just who is going to try and check my pockets for the sharpie I carry daily? The way that law is described seems to seriously lack Constitutionality.
In a land far far away in a time long ago the nun would have:
Boxed his ears.
Made him clean all the desks after school
Wrote a note to his parents.
His father would have asked why he was such a dumbass.
His mother would have said he took after his father's side of the family.
Not that I did anything like that.
Gerry
Sounds to me like a parent needs to resist arrest .....
I'm trying to imagine my seventh grade math teacher being such a dumbass as this one... and I just CANNOT picture it. The kids all loved him - he was a kook but in a good way. WAAAAY over six feet tall with a sense of humor that was not merely twisted but actually warped. Mr Papoula was one of the good guys. And he'd have just given anyone so stupid a LOOK and said something like "awwWWWW (I cannot reproduce the rising, multisyllabic tone he'd have given that ONE word!!), Mr Dwarven1, very Bad, very Bad!! Detention while you clean off the desk this afternoon!!"
And we'd have been OK with that because whoever did it would know that he deserved the detention.
Why is it that we don't read many stories about the kind of teachers that inspire kids and that they like... just ones about the assholes who give teachers a bad name?
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