Every time you hear of a new high (low?) in stupidity, there’s something else out there to raise (lower?) the bar even more.
A 13-year-old boy was arrested Friday for using a permanent marker while in class at his Oklahoma City middle school, a violation of an obscure city ordinance.
According to an Oklahoma City Police Department report, the boy was spotted “in possession of a permanent marker” by Roosevelt Middle School teacher DeLynn Woodside. The 50-year-old educator told cop Miguel Campos that the student was “writing on a piece of paper, which caused it to bleed over onto the desk.”
Woodside, pictured at right, reported that the child, whose name was redacted by police from the report, attempted to hide the marker when she asked him for it. Strangely, Woodside’s Facebook page reveals that her “likes and interests” include the official “Sharpie Permanent Markers” page on Facebook.
Campos reported that he allowed Woodside, a seventh grade math teacher, to “sign a citation” against the boy, who was then transported to the Community Intervention Center, a juvenile holding facility. A police sergeant subsequently “booked the marker into the property room.”
On another heinous crime front, there’s the report that includes the creative term, “vehicular masturbation.” I guess that’s why the perp has a smile on her face.
Alfred Persson,
Stick to it! Don’t quit like Palin did while governor & remember that old Tea Bagger cry, first heard during the Health Care debate:
“Get yer damn government hands of my medicare!!!”
LOL
You people are IDIOTS! Out of a country of 300,000,000 people, every other week you find a story of ONE person going too far. So what! Grow up.
Maybe this kid was a complete monster/jackass/asshole who was vandalizing the school off and on, probably NOT but you don’t get any background in these “fake” stories do you. You ASSUME he was sweet and innocent right. Maybe he was. Maybe he was little shit. I couldn’t tell from this, but all you twits are making endless assumptions just pulled out of your ass.
Please post more outlandish bull shit Alfred,
it is very entertaining.
That would make them red roosters.
#44
“every other week you find a story of ONE person going too far. So what!”
Because there was a time when a kid getting arrested for having a marker was so unthinkable that it really just never ever happened.
So when it happens, even once, it’s bizarre.
It troubles me when a teacher CALLS THE COPS on the kid for pen possession. And it’s troubling when the cops actually show up. And arrest the kid.
Then I read comment after comment on the original site COMMENDING the teacher and AGREEING with this bullshit law.
So in the end, it’s not just “one person going too far” – it’s a substantial chunk of the population at large agreeing with her.
As a 20-year employee of a large metropolitan school district, I could tell you stories that would have you screaming from the rooftops to end public education. From Administrators and their sycophants building mini-empires to the abuses committed by teachers on students and non-teaching employees. They call themselves professionals. You guys joke about the Teachers Union, it no joke, its all about power to the union. They are in total denial about what they do as well.
As a woman, I hate to say it, but it seems like the worst of these statist nuts are female. I don’t know why. It’s a bitchfest.
#44–brm==there was a time when there was no such thing as a marker, and not even vandalism, and the animals laughed and danced together.
It doesn’t matter if you think the “no marker policy” is good or bad, or if you think schools should just turn a blind eye to the issue and clean up the graffiti when they get to it. THE ISSUE IS: is what the school is doing so unreasonable as to be called into question for its activities? You say they are so you must have an alternative even better solution?
What would that be pray tell? For extra credit, besides recalling a past time where the issue could not even arise, can you say what is “exactly wrong” with the kiddies not being allowed to bring guns, knives, spray paint cans, firecrackers, markets to school? Even if you think they “should” be allowed to do so, what’s wrong with a rule that says they can’t?
What is the basic violation of law, rights, common sense, good education that not allowing kiddies to have markers makes?
Bueller?
Alfred Persson – you’re a nut. Truly, you are. This pig of a “woman” (please don’t hesitate to relay that to her) is a public school teacher…she is a PUBLIC SERVANT PAID BY US (or the people of her local school system). It is SHE, not some 15 year old, who needs to be held accountable for HER actions. I see nothing wrong with writing someone who has put herself in the public eye over a piece of statist, fascistic insanity that wastes the tax payers money, and complaining about her behavior. I might do it myself. She deserves it.
#53–bitchfest==right issue, wrong target. Focus.
I see a Fat ass teacher.
I’m just saying.
Saw something, said something,, im just a gitmo slave
Only in America…. and of course “see something, say something”
Alfred has been perfectly programed. Seriously guy, snap out of it. Your constant and wild tangent to mention Obama in anything and everything is a mental delusion. Obama/Bush, Left/Right… two chapters of the same CULT. A cult in which you are truly immersed.
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Now as for this so called teacher, she had this child arrested and set him off on his criminal career for life because he dared to use a marker on paper.
Did she, in turn, surrender herself for the same charges since she was in possession of the very same marker? She is an employee on the property and does not hold the power to represent herself as the property owner in any form. Thus since the child was in possession of the marker without proper clearance of the owner, she too did not posses the clearance of the owners.
#52 bobbo:
“You say they are so you must have an alternative even better solution?”
Yet again with the “well what’s YOUR solution?!” meme…
They don’t want kids to have sharpies in school? Fine. I don’t have a problem with this.
BUT
Take the marker away. Don’t call the goddamn cops.
THAT is what’s ridiculous.
Anyone have Alfred’s contact info to post again? He said someone posted it once. I’m thinking that he and this chick should go bowling.
Alfred – we got your back dude – I’ll call her for ya and give her your contact info and tell her that you’re her “Knight in shining armor coming to her emotional rescue”.
#59–brm==I agree with you. I think taking the marker away is as far as it should go. That is what school is all about: teaching the rules, teaching conformity, teaching submission. Calling the cops does violence to the learning experience.
Course that is all absent school policies and any history/additional facts that may apply. I assume there is more to the story we don’t know, but I don’t want to be naive. What are the odds this was a first offense and we have all the facts?
Seque to the issue was “bad enough” the locals had a law on the books that cops would enforce and we have a violation. Rather difficult to just ignore that from a position of total ignorance? But I can go with that. Afterall, my experience as a kiddie was that the kids were all right and the teachers always wrong. Was that your experience too?
Interesting.
In pre-feminist America, the best that women could hope for was a career in education, thus education drew the intellectual cream of American women.
Fast forward to the present, where education is the career of choice for those just above flipping burgers and education diploma mill state colleges have SAT scores that would embarrass a military academy for troubled kids.
So before, Americans were educated by best, and now, mostly by the mediocre, or worse.
Pretty obvious too.
Irony.
Okay I found the real facts.
“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.”
If she called the cops first without going through her superiors she needs her fat butt drop kicked out the door.
I can see that none of you learned anything from the “respect authority” video that was posted earlier. Please go back and review it.
Now where did I put that old ‘demon dialer’ I used to have?
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#66 – I’d hate to be the person that has to probe her body cavities. I’d need a gas mask, haz-mat suit, salad tongs and a camping shovel. Not to mention I’d have to call in the Orkin man 24 hours before getting started.
In my day sharpies were too expensive to own, and we just carved our initials in the desk with a knife
Hey you kids: Get that pen off my lawn!
Meanwhile bullying in the schools continues unchecked and unpunished, because it builds character for fighting wars in the near future. And “they” don’t want to try recruiting foot soldiers from a load of well adjusted kids, who never learned to hate anyone.