ClearCase_guy wrote: “However, we need to ask ourselves why we have such a coarse culture and why children behave like this, and why parents think it’s no big deal.”
Um, because there’s nothing coarse about kids playing grab ass. It’s a natural stage in human development—that’s also why it’s no big deal.
The reactions of the adults involved are what’s making this entire issue more traumatic. They are the one making this a big deal when it should have been resolved quickly by the teachers.
These boys need proper adult supervision, not jail sentences. What happened to an adult pulling them aside and telling them to, “Cut it out!” What moron got a police officer involved?
The school staff who were involved should be fired, because they are clearly incompetent. GEESH!
I remember another girl and I doing this same kind of behavior with two boys in the halls of our school in the 6th grade. Almost the same age as this group of kids. I think your right—it’s just something silly kids about that age do.
Um, because there’s nothing coarse about kids playing grab ass. It’s a natural stage in human development—that’s also why it’s no big deal.
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I found it a miserable and humiliating experience to be on the receiving end of this game. These boys do need a lesson in keeping their hands to themselves - suspension, apologies, some unpleasant chores - but ten years is ridiculous, and it’s not going to happen, either.
Mrs VS