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He has been suspended for rough-housing and kissing the same girl once before.
Wookiep
reply to post by Indigo5
Maybe parents who "take issue" with completely normal behavior from 6 year olds and advocate things like this is why we are in this mess in the first place.
Lincoln Principal Tammy DeWolfe said, "Any time a misbehavior or a violation of school conduct is reported to a teacher or a principal, we investigate it and look into it and get accurate information about what really happened.
"Then we continue to work with the families, and our goal is to ultimately get that inappropriate behaviors to stop."
She said the school would "never suspend a student for one minor little violation," adding that typically there are things that build up to suspension level where the behaviors have not changed over time and/or they continue.
"Our job as a school is to basically maintain a safe learning environment for all children in the school, and that's certainly what we're trying to do here," she said.
While the incident does meet the definition of sexual harassment, it also could fall under a misconduct policy, Gooldy said. Either way, he said, it is still the same misbehavior and the consequences would be the same.
"I did make decision based on the results on the investigation that I did," DeWolfe said.
She said this is a rare case because typically with younger students, they stop the undesired behavior after they are talked with and it's described that it's not appropriate at school.
"This is very rare," she said. "I would say that in the last nine years I have had to speak with a student three or four times and each time the student has chosen to stop the behavior."
BO XIAN
reply to post by Wookiep
YUP,
The idiot inmates are in charge of the asylum.
Just as predicted 2000 years ago . . . we live in the era where . . . as never before to this degree, level, hideousness . . .
EVIL IS CALLED GOOD AND GOOD IS CALLED EVIL.
UP IS CALLED DOWN AND DOWN IS CALLED UP.
LEADERS ARE DESTROYERS VS LEADERS.
And patriots are called terrorists.
And the race to hell is gaining speed.
VoidHawk
If I was that kids parents those responsible would be given a very sharp lesson on what harassment really is!
I find this just totally incredible. What the hell is in the heads of those responsible?
WOW!! A 6 year old kid shows affection and he's a SEX OFFENDER!
I'm sitting here wanting to strangle them
daryllyn
This whole "everyone is so easily offended, let's make mountains out of mole hills every chance we get" thing our society has going on.. is really sad.
It was a kiss. On the cheek. I can't believe for a second that it was anything but innocent coming from a 6 year old.
To call it sexual harassment is absolutely ridiculous.
ChesterJohn
daryllyn
This whole "everyone is so easily offended, let's make mountains out of mole hills every chance we get" thing our society has going on.. is really sad.
It was a kiss. On the cheek. I can't believe for a second that it was anything but innocent coming from a 6 year old.
To call it sexual harassment is absolutely ridiculous.
well a kiss now graduates to a slap on the butt to a girl he is working with later. The later is considered sexual harassment.
You know what else they consider sexual harassment in the work place? to tell your co worker she looks nice today. That she has a nice looking blouse or sweater. and I heard recently even offering to get her a cup of coffee. before long looking at her will be considered harassment as well then what?
Wookiep
reply to post by Indigo5
Ok, let's say for arguments sake that in the worst case scenario the kid was determined by a psychiatrist to be a "problem child" and the girls parents were furious over the little boys actions.. There would still be no excuse for the call of sexual harassment, this is a whole other realm beyond disciplinary action that no 6 year old should be subjected to.edit on 11-12-2013 by Wookiep because: (no reason given)