Reason 1,254,970
Thursday 8 March 2012 - Filed under Uncategorized
Eleven-year-old Yajira Quezada, a sixth-grader at Colorado’s Shaw Heights Middle School, was handcuffed and taken to a holding facility for disobeying the orders of an assistant principal during lunch and being “argumentative and extremely rude”.
An Adams County Sheriff’s Office incident report says the assistant principal found Yajira walking in the hallway during lunch because the girl claimed she was cold and needed to get a sweater from her locker.
The report says the assistant principal was in mid-sentence when Yajira, “turned and walked away saying, ‘I don’t have time for this.'”
When intervention efforts with a counselor failed, Yajira was handcuffed and put in the school resource officer’s patrol car and taken to a juvenile holding facility called “The Link.”
An assistant principal feels slighted because an 11 year old decided that getting a sweater was more important than blindly obeying his/her authority, and so the obvious answer is to call the police and have this girl arrested. Disobey authority and be punished swiftly and decisively. That is the only lesson public schools seek to teach.
Notice also how the girl who was arrested has been identified in the report, yet the administrator involved remains anonymous. Nice touch.
2012-03-08 » madlibertarianguy