Don't Call A Teacher Cute

[Lewis]

Student, 9 Years Old, Suspended For Sexual Harassment, Calling Teacher 'Cute

After a substitute teacher overheard 9-year-old Emanyea tell another student a teacher was 'cute,' school officials put him on two-day suspension for sexual harassment, WSOC TV reported.
The boy's mother, Chiquita Lockett, told the station she doesn't agree with the punishment.
"It's not like he went up to the woman and tried to grab her or touch her in a sexual way," Lockett told WSOC TV. "So why would he be suspended for two days?"
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The school's code of conduct doesn't list sexual harassment, but does mention possession of any gun, rifle, pistol, firearm, prohibited substance or assault of a school employee as grounds for long-term suspension.
The incident comes after a 7-year-old Boston 1st-grader faces an investigation for sexual harassment after he allegedly struck another boy in the groin, the Boston Globe reported.
The boy's mother Tasha Lynch, however, says her child was simply defending himself, and that the boy he struck had choked him in a previous incident.
“I think my kid was right to fight back,’’ Lynch told the Globe. “He wasn’t doing anything except protecting himself.’’

Boston public schools spokesman Matthew Wilder told the publication that, although he could not give a comment, the school is carrying out an investigation to see who, if anyone, should be punished.​

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[Aardverk]

After a substitute teacher overheard 9-year-old Emanyea tell another student a teacher was 'cute,' school officials put him on two-day suspension for sexual harassment

Yet another example of 'political correctness' gone mad combined with virtually unrestrained school powers over their students.

 

[handy]

I read the follow up stories...so, after going way overboard and suspending the child for sexual harassment for calling a teacher "cute"...they go overboard the other way and force the principal to retire, giving him 1 hour to decide to take either early retirement or be fired.

Yep, let's teach our kids reason and common sense.

 

[kutlessfan]

I wonder what chance they have got when the adults aren't setting the right example.

To say that is way OTT is the understatement of the year 2

 

[Lewis]

I read the follow up stories...so, after going way overboard and suspending the child for sexual harassment for calling a teacher "cute"...they go overboard the other way and force the principal to retire, giving him 1 hour to decide to take either early retirement or be fired.

Yep, let's teach our kids reason and common sense.

Wow that is crazy Dora they forced the Principle to retire. That is just plain crazy.

 

[jasoncran]

man what is this world coming too. oh yeah its getting better every day2

 

[tim-from-pa]

Ya know, you'd think with all the media attention with schools carrying political correctness too far, that the schools would stop and think before they'd do another asinine thing like this. But no, I guess the PC hippy's just don't get it (too much residual LSD effects I guess).

If I was the kid's mother, I'd give them the you-know-what. I'd say in front of them all, "Yeah, I'll punish the kid myself for poor sense because obviously you're really ugly!"

 

[GojuBrian]

That's insane.