Student Suspended For A Year After Hugging Teacher

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[traumer]

DULUTH, Ga. (CBS Atlanta) - A high school senior won’t graduate on time after being suspended for one year for hugging a teacher in November.

Last week, a Duluth High School hearing officer found that Sam McNair violated the Gwinnett County Public Schools’ rules on sexual harassment.

“Something so innocent can be perceived as something totally opposite,” McNair told WGCL.

A surveillance camera captured when McNair entered a room, placing his arms around the back and front of the teacher and tuck his head behind her neck. The teacher alleged in a discipline report that McNair’s cheeks and lips touched the back of her neck and cheek, according to WGCL.

The 17-year-old denied that he sexually harassed his teacher and that he kissed her. He said that he has never been disciplined for hugging teachers in the past.

[SoldierDad]

Well, I suppose then I will be fired for giving a parent a hug. Liberals have all but destroyed this society.

[traumer]

I realize that posting this without the teacher’s pic is worthless.....

[lastchance]

An adult woman could not handle a gesture of unwanted affection from a teen boy? Really? In a place where she knew she was safe? When he was not being violent or verbally threatening? Liberal women are wusses.

[cherry]

come on now...this wasn’t an innocent little 5 yro boy..this was a hormone raging teenager who probably got props from all his buddies for doing it....

[ZOOKER]

Sorry, I got zero tolerance for this kind of activity.
Don't care how innocent someone said it was, and I didn't ask about gender or race of participants.
There are too many overstimulated students and teachers out there for this to be acceptable in school.
I assume the student's actions were unwanted (sneaking up and grabbing from behind); if not I would want them BOTH kicked out.

[BluH2o]

He said that he has never been disciplined for hugging teachers in the past.

First time's a real bitch.

[taildragger]

Back when Dino's roamed the earth before harassment was in the workplace, I had classmates that did this all the time. The teacher was young ( & some would say hot ), single and she handled my classmates with great wisdom. She couldn't stop them, given the era, but she set boundaries and it never crossed the line, even if they were a corpuscles or raging testosterone.

Different world today...

[Hot Tabasco]

So where is the video? There’s no such video at the site...........

[taildragger]

Oops... “of raging”.. :-)

[Doogle]

clip here:

http://blog.al.com/wire/2013/12/georgia_high_school_senior_sus.html

[yarddog]

I was prepared to be outraged but after reading the details it sounds a bit strange to me. Not an innocent hug at all.

[KneelBeforeZod]

OK, so some folks here are OK with someone coming up and putting their lips on your neck? After you’ve told them not to do it *again*?

[Mastador1]

An adult woman could not handle a gesture of unwanted affection from a teen boy? Really? In a place where she knew she was safe? When he was not being violent or verbally threatening? Liberal women are wusses.

First off was it consensual? Did the 17 year old “child” ask permission? I don’t have problems with students and teachers displaying innocent affection but there has to be consent or it’s kinda creepy when you get to the age of this student, and wasn’t there a story not long ago about a an adult woman teacher that was slaughtered by a teen boy somewhere where she thought she was safe? I don’t agree with the harshness of the punishment but I can understand her discomfort. And by the way when I went to high school, a millennia ago, it would be unheard of for a male student to hug a female teacher or a female student to hug a male teacher at high school age, just not proper, but I guess times change.

[lastchance]

Oh I totally get her discomfort. She was at school in the classroom and the young man was not being threatening even if he was being creepy. I meant that she should have very loudly told him “Do not touch me. Take your hands off me or I will hurt you.” Then follow through with a swift jab to whatever vulnerable spot was within reach if he did not do so immediately. She should be able to convey her opinion of his actions without having to wait to submit a complaint to the administration.

[Crusher138]

Don’t know what to think on this one...

The video I saw showed him coming from mostly the side, say the teacher’s 4 o’clock. I saw no breast groping. Can’t really see if he kissed her neck or not. The second she starts to pull back and push him away, he stops.

A lot of conflicting information. They claim he has been warned before, he and his mom say no. One report has him being a discipline problem, another says he has never been in trouble before.

Both are Amish, so no racial overtones.

I think that the degree of punishment in this offence may be out of proportion to the crime. A week of in house suspension would seem to be more fitting to me.

[Venturer]

How can this be. Obama asked the schools not to discipline black students.

[Boogieman]

Well, I guess that “hugs not drugs” slogan better go on the trash heap now.

[struggle]

The student looks like they’re getting suspended and this is killing his semester because of FA (failure due to attendance). This means (usually) he’s had more than 10 days of suspensions (including this offense). He’s a repeat offender.

Lips to a teacher’s neck probably got him 5 days suspension.

We had a student bear hug a petite teacher in my school and he LITERALLY cracked a rib of hers. Students (and teachers) should automatically know to stay away from each other - it’s lawsuit juice.

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

All schools should be decentralized. We have the technology for kids to learn at home at their own pace.