Big, Brave Police Are Arresting Grade School Children Over Nonsensical \"Offences\"
Grade Schoolers Lives Are Ruined Via Criminal Record Before Their Even Out of 8th Grade
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/jan/09/texas-police-schools
"The charge on the police docket was "disrupting class". But that's not how 12-year-old Sarah Bustamantes saw her arrest for spraying two bursts of perfume on her neck in class because other children were bullying her with taunts of "you smell".
"I'm weird. Other kids don't like me," said Sarah, who has been diagnosed with attention-deficit and bipolar disorders and who is conscious of being overweight. "They were saying a lot of rude things to me. Just picking on me. So I sprayed myself with perfume. Then they said: 'Put that away, that's the most terrible smell I've ever smelled.' Then the teacher called the police."
The policeman didn't have far to come. He patrols the corridors of Sarah's school, Fulmore Middle in Austin, Texas. Like hundreds of schools in the state, and across large parts of the rest of the US, Fulmore Middle has its own police force with officers in uniform who carry guns to keep order in the canteens, playgrounds and lessons. Sarah was taken from class, charged with a criminal misdemeanour and ordered to appear in court."
Further excerpt:
"Each day, hundreds of schoolchildren appear before courts in Texas charged with offences such as swearing, misbehaving on the school bus or getting in to a punch-up in the playground. Children have been ARRESTED for possessing cigarettes, wearing "inappropriate" clothes and being late for school.
In 2010, the police gave close to 300,000 "Class C misdemeanour" tickets to children as young as six in Texas for offences in and out of school, which result in fines, community service and even prison time. What was once handled with a telling-off by the teacher or a call to parents can now result in ARREST and A RECORD that may cost a young person A PLACE in COLLEGE or A JOB years later."
Let's face it, Police Officers, on average, rack up arrests ANYWAY THEY CAN TO HELP OBTAIN PROMOTIONS. Police on average, are no friends of any Non-LEOs.
Now combine that attitude and authority, with IDIOT School Teachers who are 9 times out of 10 incompetent educationally and more interested in having SEX with their students, School Principals, who brown nose, hoping to get an Administration position, School Administrators, many of whom are CRIMINALS, seeking Political Office.....
Who jump at the chance to sic law enforcement on America's Youth for NON VALID reasons:
"Little Suzy Jenkins is eating Elmer's Glue"
"Young Johnny Jacobs is stealing lunchboxes"
OR
"The result, says the Appleseed report, is that "school-to-prison pipeline" in which a high proportion of children who receive tickets and end up in front of a court are arrested time and again because they are then marked out as troublemakers or find their future blighted by a criminal record."
"The charge on the police docket was "disrupting class". But that's not how 12-year-old Sarah Bustamantes saw her arrest for spraying two bursts of perfume on her neck in class because other children were bullying her with taunts of "you smell".
"I'm weird. Other kids don't like me," said Sarah, who has been diagnosed with attention-deficit and bipolar disorders and who is conscious of being overweight. "They were saying a lot of rude things to me. Just picking on me. So I sprayed myself with perfume. Then they said: 'Put that away, that's the most terrible smell I've ever smelled.' Then the teacher called the police."
The policeman didn't have far to come. He patrols the corridors of Sarah's school, Fulmore Middle in Austin, Texas. Like hundreds of schools in the state, and across large parts of the rest of the US, Fulmore Middle has its own police force with officers in uniform who carry guns to keep order in the canteens, playgrounds and lessons. Sarah was taken from class, charged with a criminal misdemeanour and ordered to appear in court."
Further excerpt:
"Each day, hundreds of schoolchildren appear before courts in Texas charged with offences such as swearing, misbehaving on the school bus or getting in to a punch-up in the playground. Children have been ARRESTED for possessing cigarettes, wearing "inappropriate" clothes and being late for school.
In 2010, the police gave close to 300,000 "Class C misdemeanour" tickets to children as young as six in Texas for offences in and out of school, which result in fines, community service and even prison time. What was once handled with a telling-off by the teacher or a call to parents can now result in ARREST and A RECORD that may cost a young person A PLACE in COLLEGE or A JOB years later."
Let's face it, Police Officers, on average, rack up arrests ANYWAY THEY CAN TO HELP OBTAIN PROMOTIONS. Police on average, are no friends of any Non-LEOs.
Now combine that attitude and authority, with IDIOT School Teachers who are 9 times out of 10 incompetent educationally and more interested in having SEX with their students, School Principals, who brown nose, hoping to get an Administration position, School Administrators, many of whom are CRIMINALS, seeking Political Office.....
Who jump at the chance to sic law enforcement on America's Youth for NON VALID reasons:
"Little Suzy Jenkins is eating Elmer's Glue"
"Young Johnny Jacobs is stealing lunchboxes"
OR
"The result, says the Appleseed report, is that "school-to-prison pipeline" in which a high proportion of children who receive tickets and end up in front of a court are arrested time and again because they are then marked out as troublemakers or find their future blighted by a criminal record."
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