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10-Year-Old Girl Arrested, Handcuffed for Taking Scissors to School
The Associated Press ^ | Dec 11, 2004

Posted on 12/11/2004 1:12:17 PM PST by flutters

A 10-year-old girl was placed in handcuffs and taken to a police station because she took a pair of scissors to her elementary school. School district officials said the fourth-grade student did not threaten anyone with the 8-inch shears, but violated a rule that considers scissors to be potential weapons.

Administrators said they were following state law when they called police Thursday, and police said they were following department rules when they handcuffed Porsche Brown and took her away in a patrol wagon.

"My daughter cried and cried," said her mother, Rose Jackson. "She had no idea what she did was wrong. I think that was way too harsh."

Police officers decided the girl hadn't committed a crime and let her go.

However, school officials suspended her for five days. Administrators will decide at a hearing whether she may return to class, or be expelled to a special disciplinary school.

The scissors were discovered while students' belongings were being searched for property missing from a teacher's desk.

School district officials have promised a crackdown on unruly students this year, and new policies give administrators the power to expel students for infractions as minor as violating the dress code, chronic tardiness or habitual swearing.

Administrators say the steps are needed to regain control over a notoriously unruly school system, but some parents have complained that discipline has been overly harsh and that school officials have been too quick to call police about minor problems.


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; US: Pennsylvania
KEYWORDS: 10; arrested; discipline; donut; donutlist; donutwatch; dumbasspublicschools; for; girl; handcuffed; old; school; scissors; students; taking; thoughtcrime; to; year; yellowcops; zerotolerance
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1 posted on 12/11/2004 1:12:17 PM PST by flutters
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To: flutters

Lucky she wasn't carrying a Bible.


2 posted on 12/11/2004 1:14:00 PM PST by REDWOOD99
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To: flutters

Philadelphia


3 posted on 12/11/2004 1:14:09 PM PST by alancarp (When does it cease to be "Freedom of the Press" and become outright SEDITION?)
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To: flutters

I guess her parents own a Porsche.


4 posted on 12/11/2004 1:14:31 PM PST by RtWngr (Being tolerant of the intolerant is pretty stupid actually.)
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To: flutters

My elementary teachers always provided scissors. I guess things have changed.


5 posted on 12/11/2004 1:15:11 PM PST by rdl6989 (4 More Years! 4 More Years!)
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To: flutters

The Police State is right around the corner and coming fast.


6 posted on 12/11/2004 1:16:57 PM PST by henderson field
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To: flutters

Everyone responsible for this fiasco deserves a month in jail. The teacher, the principal, the police, and whoever wrote these laws.


7 posted on 12/11/2004 1:17:36 PM PST by Cicero (Nil illegitemus carborundum est)
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To: flutters
More Leftist/PC/NEA insanity. God damn these people to the deepest, most firey pits of Hell.


8 posted on 12/11/2004 1:17:38 PM PST by Viking2002 (Taglines? Vikings don't need no steenkin' taglines..............)
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To: flutters
Porsche Brown ?
Mother, Rose Jackson?

Methinks the story contains the seed of its own explanation. If I had school age children, you can bet your boots that they would be aware that big trouble awaits anyone taking any sharp implement to school.
Or mashed potatoes in the shape of a gun.
Or aspirin

When our school system is run by functional morons (at all levels) one must make conscious and deliberate compensations.

9 posted on 12/11/2004 1:17:39 PM PST by Publius6961 (The most abundant things in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity.)
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You have simply GOT to be shi**in' me........

They'd have a couple hundred pounds of VERY pissed off Dad standing on the principal's desk, lifting his sorry a** out of his chair, hand to God.


10 posted on 12/11/2004 1:17:54 PM PST by RightOnline
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8-inch shears

Well, that is a far cry from the little blunt-nosed scissors we used in school when I was 10. Wonder why she felt she needed to bring these to school? It's way harsh for police to handcuff the girl. But, I wonder if there's more to this story than is apparent on the surface.

11 posted on 12/11/2004 1:18:16 PM PST by lonevoice (Vast Right Wing Pajama Party)
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You'd think this was a straightforward case of insane school administrators, but I don't trust a mother who names a child Porsche. (Or Lexus, for that matter ...)

I think there's more to this!


12 posted on 12/11/2004 1:18:25 PM PST by Tax-chick (Benedicere cor tuo! Quomodo cogis comas tuas sic videri?)
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To: flutters

Was she running with the scissors?


14 posted on 12/11/2004 1:19:15 PM PST by crazyhorse691 (We won. We don't need to be forgiving. Let the heads roll!!!!!!!!!)
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To: henderson field

henderson field wrote:

The Police State is right around the corner and coming fast.

...........................................................

I think we have at least four years of conservatie executive and congressional leadership to reverse those injustices. Can we hope for a trickle down effect in politics as well as the economy?


15 posted on 12/11/2004 1:19:16 PM PST by phoenix0468 (One man with courage is a majority. (Thomas Jefferson))
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To: Publius6961
When our school system is run by functional morons...

I dispute the use of the word "functional".

16 posted on 12/11/2004 1:19:35 PM PST by berkeleybeej
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To: flutters

I would kill anyone who handcuffed my 10 year old grandaughter.

Insanity!


17 posted on 12/11/2004 1:19:49 PM PST by Mears
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To: flutters
Whatever happened to the "spirit of the law"?

This girl will have real "issues" with authority in years to come.

18 posted on 12/11/2004 1:20:45 PM PST by monkeywrench
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This is a perfect example of how public school officials are paralyzed by political correctness into a one size fits all system of discipline for children. Out of fear of parental lawsuits they design a disciplinary scheme that is applied the same way to each and every student regardless of the consequences of such application.
It's incredibly similar to the mandatory minimums for adult offenders. There are a tremendous number of NON-VIOLENT inmates in America's prisons who are guilty of essentially victimless crimes. The "THREE STRIKES YOU'RE OUT" mentality that years or decades later puts people who have reformed their lives behind bars for a third and essentially minor nonviolent offense. THIS KIND OF AUTOMATON JUSTICE makes me want to barf !!!
19 posted on 12/11/2004 1:22:44 PM PST by GravityFree
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I think its time to have a few principals perp walked out of some of the schools in handcuffs and waist chains just to send a message we are tired of our children being abused by people we pay to teach them.

This has gone too far, and a pencile could be pronounced just as dangerous as anthing else.


20 posted on 12/11/2004 1:25:21 PM PST by konaice
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