Reason 97 to HomeSchool: Seventh Grader Wont Get Strip Searched and Arrested for Burping

A disruptive child was strip searched by 5 adults for possessing 200 dollars in cash and weeks later arrested by police for burping during PE. He was then suspended for the remainder of the school year. So I guess he is either going to go to private school or home school now.

From the DailyMail here:

A 13-year-old was handcuffed and hauled off to a juvenile detention for burping in class, according to a civil rights lawsuit filed against an Albuquerque public school principal, a teacher and a city police officer.

The unnamed seventh grader was arrested last May at Cleveland Middle School after he ‘burped audibly’ in his P.E. class. ‘Criminalising of the burping of a 13-year-old boy serves no governmental purpose,’ the lawsuit said. ‘Burping is not a serious disruption, a threat of danger was never an issue.’

He was suspended for the rest of that school year.

In a separate incident this school year, administrators became suspicious because the boy had $200 in his pocket. He claimed it was because he was going to go shopping after school, but administrators accused him of selling pot to another student.

The boy asked to call his mother; instead, they forced the student to strip down to his underwear while five adults watched. He was not charged with any crime related to that incident either.

Of course perverted teachers are going to strip search a child. Suspicion of drug dealing is indeed a time to get police officers involved. But they didn’t do that. But when a child belches, even as a joke, you don’t call the cops. Idiots. Teachers have less common sense than many of the students they are supposed to be teaching. I hope this lawsuit is wildly successful.