Freeze Tag is really going to get interesting
 

..... now that students can't touch each other in schools. :D


Let's just shrink wrap the kids before sending them off to school, better yet put 'em in bubbles. :p

http://www.cnn.com/2006/EDUCATION/02/09/sex.harass.ap/index.html
First-grader suspended for sex harassment

Thursday, February 9, 2006; Posted: 9:13 a.m. EST (14:13 GMT)


Berthena Dorinvil says the suspension of her son is outrageous.

Schools Justice and Rights Sexual Harassment or Create Your Own

What Is This? BROCKTON, Massachusetts. (AP) -- A 6-year-old boy is getting a lesson on the meaning of sexual harassment long before he'll be able to spell it.

The first-grader was suspended for three days for sexual harassment after he put two fingers inside a classmate's waistband, school officials told his mother, Berthena Dorinvil. The boy told her he only touched the girl's shirt after the girl touched him.

Experts say only in rare, troubling cases can children that young truly sexually harass one another.

"The connotation is you're getting some kind of sexual gratification, or wanting sexual gratification, or are putting pressure on for some kind of sexual gratification, when a 6-year-old doesn't have that capacity," said E. Christopher Murray, a civil rights attorney who has handled school discipline cases.

Dr. Elizabeth Berger, a Philadelphia-area child psychiatrist, said this case seems to be an overzealous attempt to ensure students feel safe in school after years in which society was not attentive enough.

The boy's mother called the January 30 suspension from Downey Elementary School outrageous. She said she can't even explain to her son what he did wrong because he's too young to understand.

"He doesn't know those things," she told The Enterprise of Brockton. "He's only 6 years old."

Brockton school officials have not commented beyond a statement from Superintendent Basan Nembirkow that said sexual harassment charges are always investigated and officials are trained to deal with them.

The Brockton School Committee defines sexual harassment among students, in part, as "uninvited physical contact such as touching, hugging, patting or pinching."

First-graders who repeatedly touch classmates need to be disciplined and taught what's appropriate, said Nan Stein, a senior research scientist at the Center for Research on Women at Wellesley College. But don't call the apparent discipline problem "sexual harassment" because first-graders just don't get it, she said.

There have been similar cases. In 1996, a New York second-grader was suspended for kissing a girl and ripping a button off her skirt -- an idea the boy said he got from his favorite book "Corduroy," about a bear with a missing button. Earlier that year, a Lexington, North Carolina, 6-year-old was separated from his class after kissing a classmate on the cheek.

Copyright 2006 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.

Seriously. People need to lighten the f up.

Next, we'll have a rule against looking at other people and not staying on your side. :rolleyes:

Does anyone up there care about the potential damage to the young boys psyche being done by this discipline? Jeeezz what a nation of azz hats we're becoming.

That kid will end up being a serial rapist.


My kid bit a kid at daycare. He was trying out the new teeth. I couldn't help but just laugh. I can only imagine what I'm in store for. I can hardly wait to do battle with these School District idiots.

I remember in 2nd grade when I was living in Colorado we each had hula-hoops that we had to sit in the middle of. You weren't allowed to touch anyone when they were in a hula-hoop. :rolleyes:

Just the ongoing attempt to turn or boys into girls. My two nephews (8 & 10) are not allowed to give "piggy back" rides in the school yard nor make a "gun" with forefinger pointed out and thumb raised..

He's a predator...

He's a sexual predator...

Lock the door, hide the women, he's a freak!

I miss dodge ball...
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And public schools wonder why home-schooling is becoming more popular all the time.

When my son was 6, I was summoned to his principals office to discuss some innappropriate behavior "of a sexual nature." I was shocked and a little panicked on my way to the school. With an air of deep gravity, the principal informed me that my son had dropped his pants in the boys bathroom and peed in the drain in the center of the floor.

I laughed and told the principle I remember doing the same thing when I was a kid. Then I added; "So what was the disturbing behavior you called me about?"

Now he's in high school. They play dodgeball and slaughterball with the enthusiastic support of the coaches, and there appear to be no residual signs of his early sexual deviancy.

That night the principle went home, put on his gimp outfit, and let his wife beat him into submission.

Well, when we grew up and went to school,
There were certain teachers,
Who would hurt the children in any way they could,
By pouring their derision,
Upon anything we did,
Exposing every weakness,
However carefully hidden by the kids.

But in (but in) the town it was well known,
When they got home at night,
Their fat and psychopathic wives would thrash them,
Within inches of their lives.

Werd.

"...we don't need no education..."

Boy, aint this the truth! This has gone too far. When I grew up we went hunting after school and at times kept a rifle in the car. Now we would be in jail as a potential mass murderer.

Its just so far over the limit that its time something is done about it. Where do we start?

JoeA

" ... how can you have any pudding, if ya can't eat your meat! .."

"You! Yes, you! Stand STILL laddie!!!"

Bingo!

Grade schools use teaching methods that are geared toward girls and then wonder why boys fall behind. They expect boys to sit still for extended periods and...not act like boys (goof off, do anything physical...).

The goal is to turn men into completely emasculated drones. Why? Because if we get all of the aggression and tendencies toward physical action out of men, we will live in a perfect utopia of non-violence?

I find it interesting that we, as a country, didn't seem to have any education problems until we had a Department of Education.

NEA psychobabble rules at work....

Ironic that this happens in a state that gives a child molester 60 days for raping a boy for years....a stste that doen't adopt Meagans law....a state tat ManBLA calls home....Say hi to Teddy.


Used to play a game called Mug-a-mite back when I was a kid. I don't think it would go over too well nowadays.