{Ping to Metmom for the ARTH list... not a whole lot of solid information here, but the principal’s nonchalant attitude is extremely disconcerting, IMHO.]
A “one-time incident”, huh? Well, that makes it all better then, I guess... (NOT!!!) It only takes ONE TIME to scar a child for life.
As for saying these children have been disciplined - what kind of discipline did they receive? Was this a case of “playing doctor” and have they now scarred the OTHER kids for life?
As for “increased supervision”? Yeah... that’s NOT going to work. I hope the school contacted social services about this in regards to the children who were behaving inappropriately (and no, I’m not one who casually suggests this sort of drastic action).
You’re dealing with 3 and 4 year-olds here. Depending on the specific sexual activity it could be a HUGE warning sign that the child leading the behavior is being abused.
Like you said though - it’s all speculation until someone talks about what really happened. I just had to say that the principal’s reaction, and the way they brushed it off like it was “no big thing” would make me EXTREMELY uneasy to let my child go back to that school. The victim has no rights in the school systems when this happens - even worse when you have parents of special needs students who are worried because the kids can’t defend themselves, and I’m guessing some couldn’t even communicate that they’d been hurt...
Exactly. Kids that age should have no concept of sexual behavior. They HAD TO have learned it somewhere.
Perhaps, the new standard is this:
Was it more or less ‘intense’ than a TSA pat-down?
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