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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This is why we are supposed to have the grace to keep adult sex in private. Six year olds are imitators of adults and they don't understand what they are doing.
Is he a Kennedy? .... If so, I need no more info, GUILTY!!
n : unwelcome sexual behavior by a supervisor toward an employee
Would someone tell me what supervisory role this boy had over his female classmate?
They suspended a 6 year old for 'sexual harrassment'. That kind of insanity can evoke a pretty emotional response. But I wouldn't have been crying, I'd have been yelling.
That's so sad! Children shouldn't learn about kissing from television. They should see their parents kiss and expect it to be a natural normal expression of love.
Are they helping this boy with some sort of counseling? Perhaps an investigation by Children & Family Services? Or are they calling him a sexual harrasser and sending him home for a suspension and making his parents explain sex to him at a way too young age?
Back up!
Read you reply to me. You said they called him a "rapist".
LOL!
A "touch" anywhere is not "rape". You over react like the kid's mother and later try to twist it.
I need to "back up".I confused you with this hysterical person:
To: nmh
this mother has ISSUES:
"Her reaction doesn't seem unreasonable for any mother who has just been informed by a bunch of dimwits that her CHILD is a child molester. I don't know how she left the school without punching somebody."
24 posted on 02/07/2006 7:18:30 PM PST by PistolPaknMama (Al-Queda can recruit on college campuses but the US military can't! --FReeper airborne)
Child molestor not rapist as I stated before. Either way it's over the top.
THAT's the problem! I punished my son for calling a girl a nasty name. LATER, (auld lang sye style) he tells the entire story. She started the problem in a much nastier way and continually harassed him until he just went off. It's not right, at school or at home for boys to be treated harsher than girls.
Ha... another story. Son's really crappy bike was stolen. We resolved to press charges. Made police report. About a week later, husband saw young teen girls riding the bike down the street. He gets the bike back, no questions asked...don't know where they live, names, NOTHING! Sooo, I'm like... you let them go b/c they were girls! If they were boys the police would be here. Hope you don't let our daughter slide like that! (Pout, wish my dad would have let me get away with stuff!)
Ummm, no. The NOT-SNEAKY-ENOUGH-ONE is the one that gets caught, lol.
bkmk
You are so wrong.
I agree, the double standard is really upsetting, aggrevating, frustrating, etc. We are doing our girls no favors by letting them off the hook.
Ahem! I was going to say that the sneakier one would be the girl, but can you imagine the flack I would get for that?
You are so wrong.
Thank you, ladyjane, for backup.
They are curious about everything, including the opposite sex.
Not just insantity. It's all about disenfranchisement.
Modern libs aren't too keen about the police state and its attendant powers, but they do like to use the vast bureaucracies to bully non-conformists.
Yeah, but I can get away with it b/c I am cute AND got kerplunk or something like that (100)
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