You think it's tough where you live? Pshaw! You don't know from tough...In Queens (New York City), a 12-year-old girl was removed from school in handcuffs for doodling her name on her desk in green erasable marker. She wrote: "I love my friends Abby and Faith" and "Lex was here. 2/1/10" plus she drew a smiley face.
She was detained for several hours.
City Education officials said, "Based on what we've seen so far, this shouldn't have happened."
Alexa is the latest in a string of city students who have been cuffed for minor infractions. In 2007, 13-year-old Chelsea Fraser was placed under arrest for writing "okay" on her desk at Intermediate School 201. And in 2008, 5-year-old Dennis Rivera was cuffed and sent to a psych ward after throwing a fit in his kindergarten.
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