Liar!

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Por qué?

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Drink up, me Heartys!

Although this is sort of late, a few weeks ago a 12-year old girl was arrested for writing “I love my friends Abby and Faith. Lex was here 2/1/10 ” on her desk.  She was humiliated in front of her classmates as we was escorted out of her seventh grade class in Forest Hills, New York and was taken the police precinct across the street.

To think that the education system has gotten this strict is unbelievable, arresting a preteen for an innocent drawing!  It’s not like she was threatening the school, simply expressing her love for her friends.  I remember in second grade a class bully drew on the floor under my friend’s desk in crayon and my friend got blamed for it.  However, after he pleaded his case and the culprit was caught, the bully took a trip to the principal’s office to be scolded.  This is the proper punishment for students who haven’t matured to the responsibilities of a college student (which isn’t saying much considering the theme of this blog).  Although this is vandalism, it just scares the child for life and causes them to “not go to school at all.”

Later in the article it mentions 25 children being arrested for having a food fight in a cafeteria in a middle school in Chicago, Illinois.   This rings very close to the recent arguments students being banned from playing tag in the playground because officials believe this is a dangerous sport because of students “running into each other.”  Either these “officials” must have been the students who sat on a bench all alone during recess because they had no friends or they were always in detention and so never saw the game of tag in their lives.  Either way, these official banning tag and arresting students for first time desk graffiti offenders are crazy.

To read the whole article please visit http://www.cnn.com/2010/CRIME/02/18/new.york.doodle.arrest/index.html?hpt=C1

Thanks to Daniel Donahoe

So that’s who drew the graffiti!

A few months ago I got a reply to this blog on CollegeBlender telling about a girl who met a friend through desk graffiti. Here is her story:

Hey there! I’m listed under Clemson because I’m there now working on my MS, but I did my undergrad at VT I had to comment because I met a friend through desk graffiti! I was in Shockley’s calculus class second semester freshman year (Spring 05) in McBryde, and someone in another class had claimed the same desk. We wrote back and forth to one another for weeks, and finally exchanged screen names out of sheer curiosity for who was on the other side. Turned out we were in the same chem lab! Good times. Keep up the good work! Document these little things, had it been a few years earlier you may have had snapshots of our conversation

So desk graffiti isn’t a bad thing after all.  It can act as a social forum between students in different classes, with different majors, who would have never met any other way!  This was a really fascinating story.  If you have any desk graffiti stories please send them to webmaster@vtdeskgraffiti.com

Thanks!

-Deskmaster