Posted on 02/07/2006 7:06:55 PM PST by AmericanMade1776
A Brockton first-grader was suspended from school for three days last month after school officials said that he sexually harassed a girl in his class.
NewsCenter 5's Jim Boyd reported Tuesday that officials at the Downey Elementary School called the boy's mother, Berthena Dorinvil, on Jan. 30, and asked her to pick up her child from the school. Dorinvil said that officials told her that her son was being suspended for sexually harassing a 6-year-old female classmate.
"My son told me that the girl touched him first, so he touched her back," Dorinvil said. "I was shocked. I was crying. I was out of control," Dorinvil said.
School officials would not speak on camera, and police officers were posted at the school Tuesday afternoon. The school superintendent released a statement that said, "The safety and well-being of Brockton public school students and staff is of the utmost important to us, and we take all allegations of sexual harassment seriously."
Dorinvil has asked school officials to transfer her son to another school, but officials have not agreed to her request.
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Exactly correct. IMHO, it was not really anything to get worked up over, just the PC crowd over-reacting (again).
This is what we refer to as a "teachable moment"; in which that little boy's mother (or father) will calmly take him aside and explain that little gentlemen simply don't do things like that, and it had better not happen again. EOS
Some can get by with nearly anything, given the right "conditions".
Hey, I went to public school in Brockton! Of course, I graduated from BHS in 1973. Come to think of it, Brockton High in those days was getting pretty rough. I can only IMAGINE what it's like now...
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