Posted on 02/03/2007 5:03:53 AM PST by mcg2000
School officials say a six year old boy and girl snuck away from teachers, then took their pants down and laid on top of each other.
It happened at Hawkins Mills elementary in Frayser on Tuesday.
Kimberly Banks is the mother of the little girl. She says the six year old boy lured her daughter into a stairwell at school.
Banks is angry about the incident. She says teachers and other staff members should have noticed the two children were gone.
Her 6 year-old daughter Kimmesha Stevenson told us about the incident. Stevenson said, “He told me to pull my pants down. And I said no. And he told me to do it.”
Banks says school officials called her after the incident happened. She says, “They told me my little girl was in the stairwell with her clothes down.”
Banks says the boy asked her daughter to follow him into the stairwell as the pair were headed from their classroom to Hawkins Mill Elementary’s aftercare program.
Banks says, “What bother me the most is that my six year old was with a little boy about to do something that she don't know anything about.”
A Memphis schools spokesperson says Kimmesha Stevenson and the boy were only missing about 15 minutes.
She was not able to give Eyewitness News an explanation about how the six year olds were able to sneak away when nine staff members were supposed to be watching them.
Stevenson doesn't seem traumatized by what happened at school. However, her mom is dreading sending her back to school tomorrow.
Banks says, “The kids are supposed to be safe at school, but how can we be assured that our kids are safe, if this right here is happening.”
A Memphis City Schools spokesperson says Tennessee’s Department of Childrens Services is investigating what happened in the stairwell.
As right of now, neither student is facing any punishment.
The boy who was in the stairwell is in Kimmesha Stevenson's kindergarten class. A Memphis City Schools spokesperson says the boy will be removed from the class.
The spokesperson says both the boy and Kimmesha Stevenson will be closely monitored by the Hawkins Mill Elementary’s staff.
Might be. But if it turns out she has another boyfriend, I'd put my money on them turning up on Jerry Springer.
Here's a news flash for you. Kids played at and experimented with sex before there was TV.
It sounds like the mother volunteered this information to me. Perhaps she is the one who contacted the news.
"Morality in Memphis is at an all time LOW."
With the chocolates in full control of everything in Memphis, I have no desire to return, even though it is my birth city (1944), and where I grew up.
" Here's a news flash for you. Kids played at and experimented with sex before there was TV."
Duh. "Doctor" is as old as the hills. But did you ever hear of kindergarteners 'doing it' in school back then?
"Kids played at and experimented with sex before there was TV."
At age SIX? What world are you from?
"it is people in influence that you would never have believed to be so morally lax."
Yes, I know. It is the big buck guys that pay off the Mayor and his palls.
I went to school with many of them. I don't need to name names.
The little guy was imitating something he had heard or seen.
Another instance, another daughter aged 6, and a friend, were in the bedroom showing each other their boobs, and I walked in. We lived in the "grrrl power/lesbian" culture. Topless women, abounding.
The mother of the girl was horrified and tried to blame my daughter.
I couldn't believe I had to explain child psychology to this otherwise intelligent woman. But I did.
Someone's parents are not using the v chip and the kid was simply repeating something he saw in the home.
You did the right thing.
I remember "playing doctor". It was a girl in the neighborhood, more "up" on these "hip" things. We all tried it. I thought the 8 year old boys in my neighborhood had bad breath. That's all it took for me.
The mom is either woefully ignorant, in shock, or looking for a fast buck.
... or picking up at school from either kids or the curriculum/teacher.
Correction: We were all in the 9-11 age category. Not 8.
Not necessarily. I come from a small New England town that was very moral and conservative (back then!)...and most kids played "doctor" at one time or another during childhood. It was no big deal- it didn't take over anyone's life..a passing phase and no one was hurt. No lifelong irreparable damage done..just part of growing up.
On the other hand- no one in my hometown ever was put on the national news scene with their names plastered all over, either...
Sometimes kids...are just being kids. It doesn't HAVE to become NEWS. This is nonsense for the local news to blast this out...should have been handled by parents and teachers, PRIVATELY.
Please step back and read your posts.
Do you have any idea how it sounds to anyone who might happen to stumble upon this forum?
With this broad paint brush stroked across the thread ever wonder why conservatives are labled "racists". yeah...I know the definition of the word "racist". Perception goes a long way.
" Perception goes a long way."
I look at facts, not perception.
I look at what has happened to Memphis.
If some group is offended, then thats their problem.
We have become impotent with PC. I do not have to take part
in stinking PC, thank you.
By the way, I am no more racist then anyone else on this planet.
Good G-D man!
Look around you. This type of behavior (children sexually acting out) is happening all over the country among every group. Even teachers are getting in the act (with kids).
No this is not PC.
However, it tell you something about a poster who lurks and waits until this behavior involves his least favorite group and then pounce.
Yes...certain "groups" in big cities have serious problems but why swoop down on a couple of kids who exhibit a problem that seems not to be peculiar to that specific group?
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