Ever since teachers in the schools were not allowed to discipline children anymore, now they have to call in the police every time there's a behavioral problem. A 12-year-old girl from Queens was arrested and taken out of her school in handcuffs for writing "Lex was here. 2/1/10" and "I love my friends Abby and Faith" on her desk. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/02/05/desk-doodling-arrest-alex_n_450859.html https://web.archive.org/web/20100208080940/http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/02/05/desk-doodling-arrest-alex_n_450859.html A few years ago a 10-year-old girl was arrested and charged with a felony for bringing a small steak knife to school. It turns out that all she wanted to do was to cut up her lunch so that she could eat it. http://www.wftv.com/news/news/knife-at-lunch-gets-10-year-old-girl-arrested-at-s/nFBC5/ https://web.archive.org/web/20111207104455/http://www.wftv.com/news/news/knife-at-lunch-gets-10-year-old-girl-arrested-at-s/nFBC5/ In Florida, an 11-year-old student was arrested, thrown in jail and charged with a third-degree felony for bringing a plastic butter knife to school. http://www.eagleforum.org/educate/2009/june09/zero-tolerance-states.html https://web.archive.org/web/20090802101331/http://www.eagleforum.org/educate/2009/june09/zero-tolerance-states.html Back in 2008, a 13-year-old boy in Florida was actually arrested by police for farting in class. http://www.tcpalm.com/news/report-martin-county-student-arrested-passing-gas- https://web.archive.org/web/20141013054645/http://www.tcpalm.com/news/report-martin-county-student-arrested-passing-gas- But if you think it's just stinky smells you can be arrested for, you'd be wrong. At one public school down in Texas, a 12-year-old girl named Sarah Bustamantes was recently arrested for spraying herself with perfume. http://www.theguardian.com/world/2012/jan/09/texas-police-schools https://web.archive.org/web/20131210235502/http://www.theguardian.com/world/2012/jan/09/texas-police-schools It's not just older children. A 6-year-old girl down in Florida was handcuffed and sent to a mental facility after throwing temper tantrums at her elementary school. http://www.tcpalm.com/news/port-st-lucie-schools-confines-6-year-old-with https://web.archive.org/web/20140821095736/http://www.tcpalm.com/news/port-st-lucie-schools-confines-6-year-old-with A 6-year-old boy was recently charged with sexual battery for some “inappropriate touching” during a game of tag at one elementary school in the San Francisco area. http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/20...yground-sex-assault-claim-against-6-year-old/ https://web.archive.org/web/20120130182459/http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2012/01/27/hercules-family-battles-playground-sex-assault-claim-against-6-year-old/ In our ever increasing police state, we now have police in our schools arresting and convicting children for little more than temper tantrums. http://www.pri.org/stories/2015-04-10/how-kicking-trash-can-became-criminal-6th-grader https://web.archive.org/web/20150411060950/http://www.pri.org/stories/2015-04-10/how-kicking-trash-can-became-criminal-6th-grader The education system is broken and the schools in America are becoming a scary place to be.
