What is going on ? Wow

[Lewis]

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

 

[Judy]

Thats just crazy. :o

 

[tim-from-pa]

It sounds to me that a 4-year-old is young enough yet that his actions probably indicated more that he was hungry than sexual. :-D

But thru the minds of an adult, they interpret it differently because some of them can't remember what it was like before they were 5 years old (but some people remember when they were infants).

All this tells me is that the adult accusers have their minds in the gutter and are projecting their perversions onto a little scapegoat---- more pseudo-puritanism again.

 

[destiny]

If an adult teacher or aide doesn't understand that a 4 year old has very little comprehension when it comes to sexuality, then that adult has no business working with young children.
Children at that age minic what they see adults do. Either that or the teacher totally misunderstood what the child was doing.
At any rate, it's scary to know a little childs life is subject to such stupidity.

 

[Lewis]

It's Time For That question Again

I had to make a change. Thanks Vic.

 

[Vic C.]

Lewis, me thinks you are in the wrong thread. hehehe

 

[lovely]

It sounds to me that a 4-year-old is young enough yet that his actions probably indicated more that he was hungry than sexual. :-D

Or, that he was comforted and giving genuine affection. As a mother who nursed three children, I still see this comfort, and bliss, from my two younger ones.

Funny, the world has a way of twisting things beautiful and innocent, and calling them sickening, and lewd...and twisting things sickening, and lewd, and calling them beautiful, and innocent. It's sad.

The Lord bless all of you.

 

[JohnR]

"your request for an apology by the aide and removal of all paperwork regarding this incident is denied."

Sounds like the aid is the one with the problems. Who would think of such a thing unless they had some issues they needed to deal with.

 

[Rick W]

Sounds like the aid is the one with the problems. Who would think of such a thing unless they had some issues they needed to deal with.

The school HAS to save face somehow. :-?
Doesn't matter WHO has to pay for it. It won't be the school.

"your request for an apology by the aide and removal of all paperwork regarding this incident is denied."

That shows NO people skills at all. Blunt, blatant and to the point. A little diplomacy is free and sure couldn't hurt in a situation such as this.

 

[Lewis]

The school HAS to save face somehow. :-?
Doesn't matter WHO has to pay for it. It won't be the school.

"your request for an apology by the aide and removal of all paperwork regarding this incident is denied."

That shows NO people skills at all. Blunt, blatant and to the point. A little diplomacy is free and sure couldn't hurt in a situation such as this.

I agree. This is the school' I just might give the principle a e-mail.
http://www.lavegaisd.org/lvpc/lvpc.htm

 

[guibox]

If an adult teacher or aide doesn't understand that a 4 year old has very little comprehension when it comes to sexuality, then that adult has no business working with young children.

Agreed. As an educator myself, I can't fathom how the aide could even think such a thing. What next? Expel the little Kindergartner for indecent exposure, because she managed to lift up her skirt during the Christmas play as many young children are wont to do?

Children at that age minic what they see adults do. Either that or the teacher totally misunderstood what the child was doing.

Hmmm. Kind of makes you wonder what the father is doing in his spare time? ;-)

 

[Lewis]

I could not help it' I had to e-mail the principle. And here is what I said.
http://www.lavegaisd.org/lvpc/lvpc.htm

Principal: Elicia Krumnow

I think that' you grown people are wrong in this matter. He is just a 4 year old child' which still has baby ways. He did not know that hugging a adult would' be taken as' sexual advancment' give us a break. And you people will not even delete this from his record. What is he supposed to do' go 12 years with this trailing behind him ? I'll tell you this' if it was your child' you would be saying' what we are saying. Your staff needs some better training. Because you have embarrassed yourselves. The nation is looking at this. And it does not look good on you grown folks. I am angry' as many others' at your administration' over this draconic' and recalcitrant behavior' of your staff against a child. I am telling you to rethink this dungeon type punishment through. Because when you treat a baby like this. That is just what it is. Dungeon type punishment.

Lewis E Williams IV
Brunswick, Georgia

 

[destiny]

Agreed. As an educator myself, I can't fathom how the aide could even think such a thing. What next? Expel the little Kindergartner for indecent exposure, because she managed to lift up her skirt during the Christmas play as many young children are wont to do?


Hmmm. Kind of makes you wonder what the father is doing in his spare time? ;-)

I used to keep three little girls; the middle girl, Lauren, was 4 years old and she constantly acted out in a sexual way.
There was no way a 4 year old could come up with the stuff she was acting out without having been shown by an adult.
Long story short, it turned out her 16 year old cousin was molesting her.
Just think of what so many little kids are having to go through these days in their own homes where they should be safe.
Compound that with teachers like those mentioned in the article.

 

[Lewis]

I used to keep three little girls; the middle girl, Lauren, was 4 years old and she constantly acted out in a sexual way.

Boy that stuff' makes me mad.

 

[destiny]

Boy that stuff' makes me mad.

Lewis, thats not the whole story ...I honestly don't think the cousin was ever removed from the little girls life in a way that made her safe.
Her parents got a divorce and no longer live in this area. I often wonder about those girls and how they're doing.

 

[Lewis]

The parents don't need those children' if they let that go on.

 

[Rick W]

School accuses 5-year-old of sex harassment

HAGERSTOWN - A kindergarten student was accused earlier this month of sexually harassing a classmate at Lincolnshire Elementary School, an accusation that will remain on his record until he moves to middle school.

"He knows nothing about sex," Vallance said. "There's no way to explain what he's been written up for. He knows it as playing around. He doesn't know it as anything sexual at all."

During the 2005-06 school year, 28 kindergarten students in Maryland were suspended for sex offenses, including sexual assault, sexual harassment and sexual activity, according to state data. Fifteen of those suspensions were for sexual harassment.

During the 2005-06 school year, one Washington County prekindergarten student was suspended from school, and 12 of the county's kindergartners were suspended for various offenses, according to state data.

 

[DISconect2]

If this 4 year old is anything like my four year old twins, the child was probably just wipping his or her runny nose on the teachers aid.

 

[Jon-Marc]

Too many people tend to see sex where there isn't any because their own minds are polluted.