…and it was bad, I tell you. Really bad. What did the boy do? He kissed a girl on the hand. :smack:
Words fail me.
I question the wisdom of out-of-school suspensions for 6-year-olds for any reason, but the school has to deal with unwanted touching.* It might be the most important rule to enforce with kids that age. Calling it sexual harassment might have been too much (or not, depending on what exactly was going on), but in any case the school agreed to drop that and just call it “misconduct.” Which it sounds like it was.
*Both the school and the other parents claim that it was unwanted and an ongoing problem, not one little old innocent play kiss.
My thinking exactly. It sounds like they got their work cut out for them.
As soon as I saw the this story the other day, I thought that there was certainly more to this than one simple kiss.
“They sent me to the office, fair and square. I did something wrong and I feel sorry,” he said.
What a great lesson to teach a six-year-old: Kissing your girlfriend is WRONG!
Further proof that America is FUBAR. :mad:
You’re right, of course her feelings on if she wants to be kissed or not are completely unimportant.
America is totally FUBAR if we teach boys that forcing yourself on females is OK. We are FUBAR if we teach that PDAs at school are acceptable behavior. We are FUBAR if we don’t realize that there is more to the story than the headline.
I guess I’d have been a terrible parent. I in “uncle” mode and was playing catch with my girl hating 7 year old 1st cousin once removed when the little 4 year old neighbor girl told him she wanted to tell him a secret. He leaned over so his ear could reach her mouth and she PLANTED A SMOOCH ON HIS CHEEK! He was mortified and I just thought it was sweet. She just giggled and ran away.
I suppose this kid might learn from this that women are nothing but trouble. I’d replace all his kiddy music stuff and make him listen to Blues for at least a half hour every day.
Be strong, my young friend. Someday, you’re not going to worry your life anymore. Further on up the road, she’ll be cryin’.
another criminal set free.
School drops sexual harassment claim against 6-year-old who kissed girl
Yeah, that fact is in the story linked in the OP.
Well, in this case, the girl was fine with it. But, she’s six, so…
Again the girl in question did not want to be kissed by the little boy AND it was an ongoing problem that has occured multiple times. While a suspension may seem like overkill, it was a case of onging, unwanted touching.
The little girl has a right too not be kissed. The little boy does NOT have the right to kiss her if she doesn’t want to be kissed.
She wasn’t his girlfriend.
Did you read the linked article?
What article are you reading? Because the one I read said she was fine with it. This was said by the boy’s mother, so I’ll take that with a grain of salt. That said, there is nothing in the linked article to suggest the girl was upset over this.
Cite please.
Here is what the yahoo news article said the *girl’s *mother had to say.
Who knows…
Your cite is in post #2 of this very thread.
Even the boy’s mother supported the kid being disciplined, but didn’t like the “sexual harassment” label.
StG
I call bullshit. “What’s sexual harassment, Mommy?” Sure. Which you answer simply by saying it’s when you keep touching a girl you like because you have a crush on her, even if you’re told to stop. Done. This mother has issues, and if anyone introduced the related-but-different word “sex,” it must have been her, and from the sound of it, she’s one of those idiots terrified of her innocent child learning anything about human biology before his wedding night. (It reminds me of a prude who complained about a “Vagina Monologues” billboard, because she had to explain the word vagina to her elementary aged female child. :rolleyes: )
This could be the kid cherry-picking a conversation about his behavior to try to excuse himself, but given the context, I wouldn’t be surprised if this is representative of his parents’ explanations to him - heavy on excuses, light on actually discouraging him from touching another kid against her will.
The original link is a really irresponsible story by the local news outlet. It’s incredibly inflammatory and one-sided. If you’re going all RO based simply on their headline, you’re way off base.
(And, by the way, how is what he’s doing *not *sexual harassment? He’s not shaking her hand or punching her arm - he’s kissing her, and he’s doing it because he has a crush on her. It may seem a little weird to apply the term to a 6yo, but if the shoe fits . . .)
Yeah, there’s nothing wrong at all with taking this sort of thing seriously. This kid–and the other kids in the class–are going to learn a lesson, one way or the other, from how the adults respond, and the lesson they’ll learn will answer the question, “Is it okay for a boy to force his affections on a girl?”
They’re learning it at an age-appropriate level, and this group of kids is learning the right answer to the question, and that’ll follow them as they grow older.