Posted on 03/06/2007 7:06:45 AM PST by Harrius Magnus
...the teacher didn't know what was going on because another student acted as a "look-out." But once the teacher discovered the behavior, immediate action was taken. Swensson says the students involved were recommended for expulsion.
So... what's the story? What was supposed to have happened? The teacher discovered it and intervened.
The journalist is just mad because they didn't turn around and call the newspaper. Well... I wouldn't either.
That's nothing - when I was a lad we had to do it uphill in the snow - both ways!
They were told to keep quiet.
"two sixth graders completed the act of intercourse..."
There would've been serious repercussions if they had enjoyed a fag afterwards.
You cannot be serious? The teachers shouldn't be running to the press anyway. It's between the principal, the teacher, the students and their parents. NO ONE ELSE.
"So, what did you make in shop class today?"
And shouting this from the roof tops helps who? I'd hate to have the media circus at my school...
Were public school teaching aids such as condoms and cucumbers involved in the act? Enquiring minds want to know.
Anyone who smokes after sex .... is doing it wrong. :-)
Huh? why?
How is it the business of the newspaper? Why not protect the privacy of the kids and families and let them deal with it?
Reporters may want the sexy salacious story, but they don't have a right to it.
Ooops ... I meant the school staff.
The students were all wearing goggles? Is this a fetish thing, or is there some educational purpose?
Sad...LOL.
Did you read the story?
There were at least 10 other kids in the class. It was going to come out sooner or later.
It is really pretty amazing that it was able to kept under wraps this long.
It sounds to me like a parent wrote to the reporters not a staff member.
It was shop class--you've got to wear safety goggles when using power-tools, soldering irons, and so forth.
Come to think of it, if we'd had coed shop back in our day, that probably is the only classroom in which something like this could have happened: the lumber storage area would be completely ignored by the teacher when the kids were using power-tools, etc. (And rightly so, since the tools were dangerous.)
Oh, now I see it in the article - I missed that.
You are right.
It absolutely should have been handled behind closed doors with the teacher, the priciple, the students involved and their parents.
No way this should be national news. They did the right thing by handling it privately.
Thats called taking responsibility and handling things yourself instead of calling on the press and the gummit to fix it.
As well they should keep quiet....
What if , god forbid, your kid or someone you know had been involved? Would you want the teachers to have a 6pm interview on Hardcopy?
They need to slow down.
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