4-Year Old Suspended from School ??

[Curiosity]

http://www.kxxv.com/Global/story.asp?S=5785699

Absolutely bizarro! These people need to stop thinking "sex" in everything....


Dec 8, 2006 08:51 PM PST
4 Year Old Accused of Improperly Touching Teacher

by Jennifer Kent
BELLMEAD- A four-year-old hugged his teachers aide and was put into in-school suspension, according to the father. But La Vega school administrators have a different story.
Damarcus Blackwell's four-year-old son was lining-up to get on the bus after school last month, when he was accused of rubbing his face in the chest of a female employee.
The prinicipal of La Vega Primary School sent a letter to the Blackwells that said the pre-kindergartener demonstrated "inappropriate physical behavior interpreted as sexual contact and/or sexual harassment."
Blackwell says it's ridiculous that the aide would misread a hug from a four-year-old. Blackwell wrote to administrators demanding that the whole incident be expunged from his son's academic file because his son is too young to know what it means to act sexually.
David Davis, the executive director of the Advocacy Center in Waco tends to agree with Blackwell. He says assuming the boy has not had sexual encounters, or been inappropriately exposed to pornography, most four-year-olds are sexually innocent.
Blackwell got a response from the La Vega administration. The sexual references on the discipline referral were removed. But the thing that makes Blackwell most upset is they told him "your request for an apology by the aide and removal of all paperwork regarding this incident is denied." Now the young student's file will refer to the incident as "inappropriate physical contact." And Blackwell says he will continue to fight the district.
La Vega I.S.D. administrators told News Channel 25 they couldn't comment on this case because of student privacy issues.

 

[tamarin]

It's hard to determine how young perverts start. Certainly, I think 10 is a little late. By then if you're a bit bent you're already doing things most folks would be a little alarmed at. But four? It's possible. But given the age of the tad we do have to give him the benefit of the doubt. Methinks the lad is merely mimicking behaviour he's already seen. It could be as simple as the relentless stream of soft porn on tv. Childhood innocence went the way of the dodo years ago.

 

[selfactivated]

Heres a link to the top 10 child psycholists I had to learn them all in high school........have fun reading

http://psychology.about.com/od/historyofpsychology/p/topten.htm

 

[Sassylassie]

Good grief talk about PCness at it's finest. He's four for heavens sake, a little young to be a groper. I had a neighbour that breast fed her son until he was six, his teeth were black from to much iron in the breast milk. It use to creep me out when he'd walk up to her on the front steps and help himself to a little drinky poo. Opps I can just see the fellas cringing when they read this, sorry.:laughing7:

 

[selfactivated]

I TOTALLY agree. Ive known woman that have done the same and secretly in the back of my head I always wondered if I should call CPS!!! This little guy was just being affectionate. My Goddess! in a world so full of fear his parents deserve kudos!

 

[Kreskin]

If it was a little girl and a male teacher he'd be behind bars right now and Nancy Grace would be convicting him on TV.

 

[Sassylassie]

My neighbour is a teacher, primary to five and I saw her at Tim Hortons waiting in line and she had to of had at least seven little ones come up and hug her. I thought it was delightful, sad how a hug has been added to the list of things kids can't have anymore isn't it.

 

[L Gilbert]

Sad and asinine.

 

[Sparrow]

4-Year Old Suspende from School??

THIS IS ASSININE!!! It just goes to show how far some people have gone with "paranoia". I would have a good saying for these people "Be sure your brain is in gear before you open your mouth" it might help to avoid stupidity.

 

[Ariadne]

If it was a little girl and a male teacher he'd be behind bars right now and Nancy Grace would be convicting him on TV.

You make an interesting point. I think that the teacher, in this case, is the person with the wrong thoughts. The teacher is interpretting a normal behavior in a sexual way and must have felt a sexual response of some sort to believe that the child was behaving in a sexual nature.

The teacher, whether male or female, should be dismissed from teaching immediately for having inappropriate perceptions and reactions to children. I would not want someone like that anywhere near my children. When you think about it, if a neighbour told a parent that their child was sexual because of a hug, most parents would be pretty leary about that neighbour.

 

[tamarin]

It's not normal behaviour. And it wasn't a hug. For whatever purpose, the lad was gleefully giving her a full frontal monty.
But suspension's a bit much. He does need a short, to the point discussion on social etiqette.
You can't dismiss a teacher for protesting being groped.

 

[Ariadne]

It's not normal behaviour. And it wasn't a hug. For whatever purpose, the lad was gleefully giving her a full frontal monty.
But suspension's a bit much. He does need a short, to the point discussion on social etiqette.
You can't dismiss a teacher for protesting being groped.

We're talking about an adult, someone large enough to lift a 4 year old up by the arm or leg. How is it possible that this teacher, who didn't want to be "groped", did not have the ability to prevent the child from doing what it did? Anyone can prevent a hug by simply folding arms and raising their elbows.

I think the teacher should indeed be dismissed for having inappropriate sexual thoughts about pre-schoolers.

Alternatively, if the hug was a little too 'familiar', the teacher should have had an immediate discussion with the child about not having physical contact with teachers. That's a given in any teaching environment since physical contact can easily be misunderstood.

 

[tamarin]

With PC in full penetration mode - wonderful image that - in school systems north and south of the border I should think in many districts this is suspendable behaviour. We've seen many instances of kindergarteners (is that a word?!) being suspended for similar behaviour in the last few years, many of it carried on national news.
The world's lost its brains and no one's got any to sell. But I wouldn't blame teaching staff for implementing such policies. It ain't their fault that the pencil pushers in office across the continent have got dough in their noggins.

 

[Ariadne]

With PC in full penetration mode - wonderful image that - in school systems north and south of the border I should think in many districts this is suspendable behaviour. We've seen many instances of kindergarteners (is that a word?!) being suspended for similar behaviour in the last few years, many of it carried on national news.
The world's lost its brains and no one's got any to sell. But I wouldn't blame teaching staff for implementing such policies. It ain't their fault that the pencil pushers in office across the continent have got dough in their noggins.

South of the border, we have indeed heard bizarre stories of very young children being accused of sexual behavior or a 6 year old boy being suspended for kissing a 6 year old girl on the cheek. North of the border, I haven't heard of anything like this. In fact, I recall a case a few years ago where the young child of a Scandinavian family was arrested because of being affectionate. The family high tailed it out of the country as soon as they could get their child back. This isn't PC anymore, this is crazy paranoia and adults projecting their own sexuality onto children that have no concept of the sexual differences between boys and girls.

I've seen teachers walk up to students and rub their backs a little. Maybe the upset teacher in the article should examine her own behavior. Is that teacher 100% respectful of students? Does that teacher keep her hands to herself all the time? If not, then she is partially responsible.

 

[tamarin]

You're instituting a special form of paranoia yourself here. Reminds me of the golden days of PC in the province of Ontario where even oglers were accused of sexual harassment. Remember that poor U of T professor who was put on show trial at the U for looking at swimmers at the university pool? You'd have thought the world had died and returned as a nut.
I'll stand behind the teacher here and lay the blame at administration's door. And the PC movement, of course, and its co-founder, feminism.

 

[tracy]

This is ridiculous. A four year old is not being sexual. They really don't know how to be unless they have been sexualized themselves (abused). All the teacher had to do was tell him not to do that because it was disrespectful.