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11-Year-Old Texas Boy Takes Teacher’s Car For A Joyride
An 11-year-old Texas boy swiped a teacher’s keys and took her car on a two-hour joyride.
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HOUSTON (July 2, 2009)--An 11-year-old Texas special needs student was pulled over by police for running a stop sign after he took his teacher's car for a joy ride earlier this week.
The boy took his teacher's car keys Monday at the Academic and Behavior Center East in Houston after telling her he needed to return to the bathroom, to which he had just gone.
Then he headed to the parking lot for her car.
Police called school officials two hours later saying they had pulled him over after he ran a stop sign, the Houston Chronicle reported.
No injuries were reported.
It wasn’t the first time he took someone’s car for a drive.
In March 2008, he took an assistant principal's car for a brief ride.
School officials say the student will be reassigned to a school with a "more controlled environment."
His mother wants to know why he wasn’t more closely supervised.
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Hey "Amazed", what are they supposed to do? Ignore all the other kids and watch this one troublemaker like a hawk? I agree that if he was smart enough to steal the keys, find the car and drive it he is not that disabled. The mother needs to take responsibility.
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To Amazed: Yes if it was my child I would be singing a different tune. I would have my child in the woodshed instructing them on the consequences of being an idiot at the top of my lungs. Thankfully after raising 2 kids of my own they turned out to be college educated, tax paying adults who never got in trouble with the law. Did they do dumb things growing up? Sure, all kids do. Did they learn what happens when you do dumb things? You bet they did. I'm amazed that you are trying to blame the school for what the kid did. If he knew how to get the keys, find which car and go drive he isn't that "special needs". And today "special needs" could just mean the kid is disruptive or constantly in trouble, not mentally defective. The kid did it, the kid is to blame. Making excuses doesn't help anyone, ever.
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This kid's education should start at home, not in school. Spare-the-rod-spoil-the-child. Bust his rear at home to start out with!!
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