Originally Posted by luv2so
What the heck could he have possibly been doing with a marker to get him arrested? Don't the police have any sense either?
If they live in a larger city, it might be gang related. Students tag or mark their territory with spray paint and markers. My guess is it might have been something to do with that. In a city I worked as an assistant principal we had remodeling done on the bathrooms. The first week it was finished three 4th graders tagged the bathroom with markers with their gang signs. I called the parents and gave them a choice, their child could be suspended for gang graffitti or they could have in-school suspension with me and spend half the day cleaning the school and half doing their school work. Two parents said 'keep them' and one parent came to get his son, that was, until I showed him the writing in the bathroom and he knew instantly it was his son's 'artwork' and then he said, "Make him clean the entire school!" He was so embarrassed and ashamed of his son. They had in-school suspension/cleaning duty for most of a week and after that I found one of them telling another child, "Keep your hands off the wall, we just cleaned that!" Another one of the boys came to tell me they needed to clean the windows again because someone put fingerprints all over it. It was amazing that they were taking so much pride in their school.
I know at our high schools we run the students through metal detectors and check their backpacks and we confiscate all permanent markers or sharp metal objects.
It makes you wonder what the circumstances were with this child that was arrested.