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This crap in school has gone BEYOND the top of the stupidity meter.  What the hell has the Department of Education come to?  A police force?

Queens girl Alexa Gonzalez hauled out of school in handcuffs after getting caught doodling on desk

A 12-year-old Queens girl was hauled out of school in handcuffs for an artless offense – doodling her name on her desk in erasable marker, the Daily News has learned.

Alexa Gonzalez was scribbling a few words on her desk Monday while waiting for her Spanish teacher to pass out homework at Junior High School 190 in Forest Hills, she said.

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City officials acknowledged Alexa’s arrest was a mistake.

“We’re looking at the facts,” said City Education Department spokesman David Cantor. “Based on what we’ve seen so far, this shouldn’t have happened.”

“Even when we’re asked to make an arrest, common sense should prevail, and discretion used in deciding whether an arrest or handcuffs are really necessary,” said police spokesman Paul Browne.

Common Sense gone out the window!

Tiny Toy Gun Gets Boy Suspended (Video in Story at link)

PORTLAND, Ore. (KFSN) — A four inch long toy gun has landed a little boy in big trouble. The eight year old took the gun to his school in Portland, Oregon.

It came with a GI Joe action figure he got for Christmas. When school officials discovered the toy gun, they suspended him for a day. They’ve also put a note into the boy’s permanent file. Now his father says the school is going too far.

“I think it’s a huge over-reaction, I mean, come on, it’s not .. it’s obviously not a real weapon, I mean, yeah.. I mean like I said before, if it was, you know, look like real weapon, I can understand, but common, I mean eh .. I fail to believe that that could be actually perceived as a real weapon,” said Aron Anderson, a parent.

The Portland public school district says the punishment for the eight year old fits because the toy — no matter how small — is a simulated weapon.

Are there even adults in charge anymore?

Stupidity on a scale of 100!

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