19 Crazy Things That School Children Are Being Arrested For In America

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19 Crazy Things That School Children Are Being Arrested For In America

#1 At one public school down in Texas, a 12-year-old girl named Sarah Bustamantes was recently arrested for spraying herself with perfume.

#2 A 13-year-old student at a school in Albuquerque, New Mexico was recently arrested by police for burping in class.

#3 Another student down in Albuquerque was forced to strip down to his underwear while five adults watched because he had $200 in his pocket.  The student was never formally charged with doing anything wrong.

#4 A security guard at one school in California broke the arm of a 16-year-old girl because she left some crumbs on the floor after cleaning up some cake that she had spilled.

#5 One teenage couple down in Houston poured milk on each other during a squabble while they were breaking up.  Instead of being sent to see the principal,they were arrested and sent to court.

#6 In early 2010, a 12-year-old girl at a school in Forest Hills, New York was arrested by police and marched out of her school in handcuffs just because she doodled on her desk. “I love my friends Abby and Faith” was what she reportedly scribbled on her desk.

#7 A 6-year-old girl down in Florida was handcuffed and sent to a mental facility after throwing temper tantrums at her elementary school.

#8 One student down in Texas was reportedly arrested by police for throwing paper airplanes in class.

#9 A 17-year-old honor student in North Carolina named Ashley Smithwick accidentally took her father’s lunch with her to school.  It contained a small paring knife which he would use to slice up apples.  So what happened to this standout student when the school discovered this?  The school suspended her for the rest of the year and the police charged her with a misdemeanor.

#10 In Allentown, Pennsylvania a 14-year-old girl was tasered in the groin area by a school security officer even though she had put up her hands in the air to surrender.

#11 Down in Florida, an 11-year-old student was arrested, thrown in jail and charged with a third-degree felony for bringing a plastic butter knife to school.

#12 Back in 2009, an 8-year-old boy in Massachusetts was sent home from school and was forced to undergo a psychological evaluation because he drew a picture of Jesus on the cross.

#13 A police officer in San Mateo, California blasted a 7-year-old special education student in the face with pepper spray because he would not quit climbing on the furniture.

#14 In America today, even 5-year-old children are treated brutally by police.  The following is from a recent article that described what happened to one very young student in Stockton, California a while back….

“Earlier this year, a Stockton student was handcuffed with zip ties on his hands and feet, forced to go to the hospital for a psychiatric evaluation and was charged with battery on a police officer. That student was 5 years old.”

#15 At one school in Connecticut, a 17-year-old boy was thrown to the floor andtasered five times because he was yelling at a cafeteria worker.

#16 A teenager in suburban Dallas was forced to take on a part-time jobafter being ticketed for using foul language in one high school classroom.  The original ticket was for $340, but additional fees have raised the total bill to $637.

#17 A few months ago, police were called out when a little girl kissed a little boy during a physical education class at an elementary school down in Florida.

#18 A 6-year-old boy was recently charged with sexual battery for some “inappropriate touching” during a game of tag at one elementary school in the San Francisco area.

#19 In Massachusetts, police were recently sent out to collect an overdue library book from a 5-year-old girl.

Still want the government to be in charge of raising and educating the nation’s children? How about your own? 

‘Election Campaigns’: The class in which I turn ~2400 pages of material (that I should probably read first) and a 100 page simulation instruction packet into an 8-12 page paper. Joy.

As if realizing I missed the first registration period wasn’t stressful enough. I wish UT let me transfer my 3.76 GPA from Clark…

Privatization and deregulation: do it for the children. Do it for innovation, creativity, growth, and the humanity which is repressed by the systematic indoctrination ingrained within the public school system.

It is an injustice to subject innocent human beings to ritualistic, impersonal, and largely non-nurturing institutions which are not so different, in reality, to the similarly rigid and ritualistic insanity that comprises our prison system. Psychological oppression is no more acceptable than its physical counterpart; we need to stop communicating through complacency that it is.

(Source: http://thinksquad.tumblr.com/post/10143219294)

coeus: Researchers from Oregon State University surveyed 582 students – many in their first year and presumably living on campus – about their eating habits and found that few prioritized balance when they chose their meals and snacks. Males consumed more fat but averaged five fruit and vegetable servings per week, while female students consumed more fibre but fewer servings of fruit and veggies altogether, at four per week. More than one-third of their calories consumed came from fat – that juicy cheeseburger, or the bag of chips from the vending machine – versus healthier sources such as a side of steamed broccoli. One of the study’s authors points out previous research shows people tend to eat healthier, well-rounded meals when they cook at home. Few dorms, especially for first-year students, come equipped with full kitchens so students tend to eat at campus dining halls or nosh on fast food (which, as previous studies have shown, contributes to the infamous “Freshman 15” weight gain). I am not even remotely surprised. While my 5-10 lb gain was mostly muscle (I started lifting at school), I did go through half a package of Tums over the course of 3 months, because my stomach really just has no idea how to digest processed foods (honestly, I had stomach cramps after every single meal and this is from someone who had never had them before. Ever). I only survived by getting pasta with garlic and spinach for virtually every single meal (that helped) and eating my own organic whole wheat bread with organic crunchy peanut butter and organic jam after going to the gym (so good). That, perhaps, is the one downside of being raised on healthy, organic food. The other downside is when I went to purchase organic milk (for my coffee/health) only to find that a half-gallon in Worcester, Massachusetts costs about the same as a full-gallon in Austin, TX. I actually threw out three cartons of ‘normal’ milk before I realized that they hadn’t gone bad; that’s just what non-organix milk smells like. Nothing has ever made me feel more granola in my life… That, and my dad shipping me Dublin Dr. Pepper (cane sugar, not HFCS) and my mother shipping me organic, homemade banana nut muffins and organic Ruta Maya coffee grounds.

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