Just saw this one: Texas child suspended after hugging aide
WACO, Texas (AP) — School administrators gave a 4-year-old student an in-school suspension for inappropriately touching a teacher's aide after the pre-kindergartner hugged the woman.
A letter from La Vega school district administrators to the student's parents said that the boy was involved in "inappropriate physical behavior interpreted as sexual contact and/or sexual harassment" after he hugged the woman and he "rubbed his face in the chest of (the) female employee" on Nov. 10.
DaMarcus Blackwell, the father of the boy who attends La Vega Primary School, said he filed a complaint with the district. He said that his son doesn't understand why he was punished. [...]
After Blackwell filed a complaint, a subsequent letter from the district said the offense had been changed to "inappropriate physical contact" and removed references of sexual contact or sexual harassment from the boy's file.
Administrators said the district's student handbook contains no specific guidelines referring to contact between teachers and students but does state that inappropriate physical contact will result in a discipline referral. [...]
This is what happens when you have people with more college degrees than common sense running the show. No, little boys shouldn't be allowed to run around nuzzling twixt the ninnies of women to whom they are not legally wed, but the thing to do is tell him not to do that, tell mom and dad they might need to have a little discussion about such things, and drop it.
And that's it.
Posted by Terry Oglesby at December 11, 2006 04:50 PMIdiots! No, that slanders idiots.
Mark Twain said God created the idiot for practice and then created the school board. It seems he was correct.
Posted by: Larry Anderson at December 12, 2006 09:36 AM