Boy sticks out Tongue, is Suspended

EL Paso Times ^ | 04.01.03

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[goldstategop]

Zero Tolerance idiots!!!

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[moyden2000]

Sounds like it was more lewd than the headline describes.

[Fester Chugabrew]

Hung by the toungue . . .

[Viiraxe]

Lol, I'm sorry, but it would just have to be a blatantly lewd and degrading gesture for me to believe it was worth 3 days suspension and possible alternative school.

It just seems like a knee-jerk reaction to me.

[ambrose]

I seem to remember a time when the punishment for a kid sticking out his tongue was some pepper or a bar of soap. These liberal NEA Feminazis are CRAZY!

[Billy_bob_bob]

" 'This is crazy,' said Sal's mother, Silvia Santana"

Note this phrase. As we become more and more Bolshevised, you will hear this phrase more and more often. Watch for it. The more times a day you hear it the closer we are to full state control.

"This is crazy". The mantra for those caught in the clutches of the socialist state. Repeat over and over to yourself so that you don't think that it's you.

[Drammach]

"This is crazy"..

Then suddenly, you won't hear it at all.
Those who said it will be in "re-education" camps, being instructed in the proper way to think.
or else.

[FirstTomato]

The man-hating Femi-NAZIS at it again. As a woman, I am deeply ashamed of the women in this country who allow this bashing of males to go on.

NOW has tried its darndest to completely feminize this country. I hate the way this society has treated men. And the continual mis-treatment of little boys is despicable. Little boys are criminalized for acting like boys, and doctors have them full of drugs because they dare be active.

Disgusting. Leftist women who openly advocate murdering the unborn are in cultural hegemony over this society for decades, and its time the butchy blitches are read the riot act: most normal women don't hate men, and most don't want to murder their unborn, nor do they advocate for others to do so.

Leftism has been allowed to run amuck in this country for far far too long.

[eggman]

The behavior was inappropriate. Was it sexual harassment? My guess is no. What should be asked is whether a girl making a similar gesture to a boy would be faced with the same charges. If not, then there is either a double standard or it is clearly not sexual harassment.

Making a public example of a trivial offense is a very effective intimidation tool.

[cartoonistx]

The solution to this growing problem (public school zero tolerance PC crapola) is for the students involved to sue the pants off of everybody associated with such slap-punishments for defamation. They should seek damages to cover the cost of a life-time private school education.

[FirstTomato]

I think the real inappropriate behavior is to penalize little boys for being boys.

And its especially inappropriate to be teaching little girls that they hold such power over other children, especially boys, that by simply screaming "harassment" you can ruin someone's life.

That's modern "feminism".

[wai-ming]

If the girl had stuck out her tongue at the boy, would she have been suspended?

I seriously doubt it.

[LittleRedRooster]

The behavior was inappropriate

What in the world would make the behavior inappropriate, 12 year old boys have been sticking there toungs out at 12 year old girls for hundreds of years.

If any thing it would seem a restriction of the little boys right of free speech to react to the rejection.
For instance I don't see how asking someone for a date in the work place and getting turned down, then saying SH*T out loud qualifies for sexual harrasment.

[quietolong]

These days you can't tell if it's real or from the Onion

This is just Unreal!

[xm177e2]

Lol, I'm sorry, but it would just have to be a blatantly lewd and degrading gesture for me to believe it was worth 3 days suspension and possible alternative school.

"he stuck his tongue out and moved it back and forth and waved at her like you were patting someone on the back..."

I can't tell if he was waving his hand or the tongue. Either way, it was inappropriate, and while a 3-day suspension might seem a little heavy-handed, it's not so bad. The idea about sending him to an alternative school--that's just nuts. That's terrible.

[philetus]

I believe if the world was a living being, it would have a gun to it's head and hammer would be dropping.

[weegee]

If he had stuck his tongue out at the flag or a picture of President Bush he would have been granted extra-credit points in some public school classrooms.