Attack of the preschool perverts

Orange County Register ^ | April 12, 2008 | Mark Steyn

[Nony]

Is American public education a form of child abuse? The Washington Post's Brigid Schulte reported this month on a student named Randy Castro, who attends school in Woodbridge, Va. Last November at recess he slapped a classmate on her bottom. The teacher took him to the principal. School officials wrote up an incident report and then called the police.

Randy Castro is in the first grade. But, at the ripe old age of 6, he's been declared a sex offender by Potomac View Elementary School. He's guilty of sexual harassment, and the incident report will remain on his record for the rest of his school days – and maybe beyond.

[GBA]

I feel your pain. Or did when I was a kid. Two things I feared growing up were the threat of the hairbrush and the phrase “go cut me a switch”. Yikes!

[MaggieCarta]

...By any reasonable measure, at least a third of the cash dumped into American schools is entirely wasted.

Thanks, knews_hound. Steyn nails it again, as usual.

Ping for the Public Schools list.

[vrwc54]

You couldn’t make this stuff up.

[zeugma]

Another Steyn gem:

Amid the debris of human lives caught up in these idiocies, you can also find the ruins of an indispensable element of civilized society: a sense of proportion.

 

[alwaysconservative]

Great article, but I weep for the loss of childhood innocence (and innocents) at the hands of these “school officials”. THIS is what we get when leftists are allowed to run aspects of our personal lives, so WAKE UP, people!