You sort of have to feel sorry for the teacher. Her fault was in being tragically naive about how low our culture has sunk. In the past, you would’ve had to be a total pervert to even THINK of monitoring your classroom full of eight-year-olds for sexual activity. My guess is this happened during an indoor recess or something. If you saw two eight-year-olds under a desk, and you were a halfway decent person with a quarter-of-the-way decent mind, you’d probably assume they were playing fort or something. You wouldn’t be hovering over them to see if anyone’s fly was down. Any sexual activity would have to be very, very shockingly obvious for the thought to even cross your mind.
Fire the parents, I say.
At eight, I didn't have the slightest clue what sex was; even when I did learn a few years later, it took me yet a few more years to understand why anyone would want to do that!
The teacher may not have been observing closely, but unless she taught them how to do it and told them to go practice, I wouldn't call it a firing offense.
On the other hand, I'd like to know why the school officials who decided to give the kids "counseling" rather than calling CPS weren't fired.
How did the 8-year-olds know anything about sex, particularly oral sex? Acting out sexual activity in a prepubescent child to me screams "warning sign, possible sexual abuse."
If a child that age needs an explanation of where babies come from, it's possible to give one that is factually accurate but not terribly explicit- most kids that age just aren't that interested anyway. Oral sex, however, in my way of thinking, has no business being in their known universe.
Maybe I am more naive than I think I am and there is a "reasonable" explanation for this!
What would firing the parents entail?