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Originally Posted by Swimmer
If the desk costs over $250.00 its a felony.
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Not in NY at age 13. She should have been recog'd to her mother's custody with an appearance ticket for Family Court.
But, it's not the police dept's fault. If the principal insisted on an arrest, they really had no choice. The smart thing to do would have been to call a Sgt. or Lt. down and have him talk it over with the principal, then call the mother down to the school. There's a right way and a wrong way to handle something like this--and I'm sure that if they went thru the entire school, they'd have found hundreds of other desks defaced worse than that.
The Board of Ed isn't going to replace the desk--I can guarantee that. If what she wrote was just "Okay" they won't even sand it out until the end of the school year.