Stupid people make my head hurt.
Today's stupidity award goes to people who are suspending pre-schoolers and kindergartners for sexual harassment. From Newsweek (Nov. 26, 2007):
Four year old... was suspended last year for sexual harassment when a female aide reported that the child buried his face in her chest when she hugged him...
Blackwell is one of a number of parents whose kindergartners and first graders are being suspended, often for days at a time, for sexual misconduct based on behavior like hugging, poking and pinching classmates or school staff. In Ohio, 74 first graders were suspended for "unwelcome sexual conduct" last year, up from 52 in 2005. In Virginia, at least 13 kindergartners have been suspended in each of the last three years for "sexual touching"...
"A lot of people say,'well, it's just elementary-age kids.' But... our culture has a lot of vulgarity in it right now," says Jim Walsh, a Texas lawyer who trains school officals to spot sexual harassment among students. Administrators are "on guard, and understandably so."
You know, in the 60s when a child wasn't affectionate, they said this was a serious problem. Now it's a serious problem when they are. I think the former is better than the later. How else are kids supposed to learn how to be appropriately affectionate when they aren't allowed to be at all?
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Oh yes, I'm sort of back. I'd tell you what's up, but then you'd give me hugs and I'd have to sue you for Sexual Harassment. >:D
Four year old... was suspended last year for sexual harassment when a female aide reported that the child buried his face in her chest when she hugged him...
Blackwell is one of a number of parents whose kindergartners and first graders are being suspended, often for days at a time, for sexual misconduct based on behavior like hugging, poking and pinching classmates or school staff. In Ohio, 74 first graders were suspended for "unwelcome sexual conduct" last year, up from 52 in 2005. In Virginia, at least 13 kindergartners have been suspended in each of the last three years for "sexual touching"...
"A lot of people say,'well, it's just elementary-age kids.' But... our culture has a lot of vulgarity in it right now," says Jim Walsh, a Texas lawyer who trains school officals to spot sexual harassment among students. Administrators are "on guard, and understandably so."
You know, in the 60s when a child wasn't affectionate, they said this was a serious problem. Now it's a serious problem when they are. I think the former is better than the later. How else are kids supposed to learn how to be appropriately affectionate when they aren't allowed to be at all?
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Oh yes, I'm sort of back. I'd tell you what's up, but then you'd give me hugs and I'd have to sue you for Sexual Harassment. >:D