Posted on 12/10/2006 3:38:09 PM PST by kingattax
WACO, Texas — School administrators gave a 4-year-old student an in-school suspension for inappropriately touching a teacher's aide after the pre-kindergartner hugged the woman.
A letter from La Vega school district administrators to the student's parents said that the boy was involved in "inappropriate physical behavior interpreted as sexual contact and/or sexual harassment" after he hugged the woman and he "rubbed his face in the chest of (the) female employee" on Nov. 10.
DaMarcus Blackwell, the father of the boy who attends La Vega Primary School, said he filed a complaint with the district. He said that his son doesn't understand why he was punished.
"When I got that letter, my world flipped," Blackwell said in a story in today's editions of the Waco Tribune-Herald.
La Vega school district officials said student privacy laws prevented them from commenting.
After Blackwell filed a complaint, a subsequent letter from the district said the offense had been changed to "inappropriate physical contact" and removed references of sexual contact or sexual harassment from the boy's file.
Administrators said the district's student handbook contains no specific guidelines referring to contact between teachers and students but does state that inappropriate physical contact will result in a discipline referral.
The La Vega school district, which has five schools, covers about 30 miles around Waco.
Does make you wonder what the teacher's aide looks like in that department, doesn't it. lol
Naw the 4 year old probably flunked pre kindergarden sex education.
"Wasn't "brushing." This wasn't a tiny, little 4-year-old. This was a kid performing a vulgarity he learned at home."
That is wrong on so many levels. Unless you were there I think the odds are FAR greater that this was a little kid hugging his teacher who misintrepreted it. She misinterpreted it based on BS training the broken education system gave her.
The act itself isn't vulgar either under the proper circumstances, like a hubby and a wife.
I disagree.
I think it is just a little kid needing a hug! He's 4!
The child wasn't 4? According to the article he was. And how do you know it was a "vulgarity" he was performing, instead of a hug where logistically his head may wind up nestled in her chest? Maybe you have more info than is provided in the article; that's all I'm going on.
It's one thing to get a "hug."
It's another thing if the kid was banging his face between her breasts.
That's the charge.
the kid is 4 years old perhaps he thought it was lunch time
Maybe he's a weird kid. I don't think charges should be involved. (maybe he was breast fed too long, who knows?) It could be any number of reasons that he did what he did.
I agree.
Fine you disagree. Who is far more likely to be correct? Me, in that he was a 4 year old needing a hug. Or you that he was a 4 year old who was seeking to molest his teacher.
Here's the culprit.
Note to the world: Breast-fed children tend to have VERY LITTLE INTEREST in breasts that do not produce milk.
You are wrong on both counts.
It was a 4-year-old taught inappropriate behavior by his MTV-influenced family. The 4-year-old has been taught.
"It was a 4-year-old taught inappropriate behavior by his MTV-influenced family. The 4-year-old has been taught."
You must know this child. Because not only do you know what happened but you also know his family and their viewing habits.
Either that or you are jumping to conlusions and can't admit you might be wrong.
I would LOVE to be proven wrong! Prove it!
You see malice in the actions of a 4 yr old as the most likely course of action. Not sure I want to be bothered.
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