Failure To Enunciate Is Good

[R. Richard]

Actually, that's not what the kid called his teacher. Close, but not exact. The kid slurred the 'n' sound, or it would have been much worse.

GASTONIA, N.C. -- A Gastonia mother says her son was suspended for calling a teacher "cute.”

Chiquita Lockett said her 9-year-old son, Emanyea, spent the last two days at home.

Lockett said the principal of Brookside Elementary called her Wednesday to say the incident was a form of “sexual harassment.”

Emanyea told Eyewitness News a substitute teacher overheard him tell another student a teacher was cute.

Then he was suspended.

"It's not like he went up to the woman and tried to grab her or touch her in a sexual way," Lockett said. "So why would he be suspended for two days?”

A district spokeswoman said she could not go into detail, but said Emanyea was suspended for "inappropriate behavior" after making "inappropriate statements."

The district's Code of Conduct doesn't list "inappropriate behavior," but says "disruption of school" is punishable by five days of out-of-school suspension.

 

[TE999]

Your story dovetails neatly with this one: http://boston.cbslocal.com/2011/12/...e-sexual-harassment-for-kicking-boy-in-groin/

Even further proof this sexual harassment business has gotten way out of hand. These school administrators are scared shitless of bad publicity and being sued for not enforcing ridiculously draconian rules and regs that they draw up themselves, so they do and get bad publicity and sued anyway.

 

[Virtual_Burlesque]

There’s nothing wrong with anti sexual harassment laws. The problem is these idiotic applications of them in inappropriate situations.

The only inappropriate behavior going on at Brookside Elementary, appears to have been perpetrated by the substitute teacher's eavesdropping on the two boys, and then not having the good sense to keep it to herself.

 

[Boxlicker101]

This is petty ridiculous. If the kid had described an attractive teacher as being pretty, I suppose he would have been expelled.

I have never heard of a nine year old student being able to sexually harass a teacher.

 

[Kurokami]

Wow is that ever an overreaction.

I get the feeling that Aussie schools are way more laid back about stuff like that, though. Mainly because I had a teacher in high school that a lot of students- who I remind you were at an age where they could actually appreciate and understand sexual concepts- called sugar tits. To her face. It was sort of an injoke among the classes that I had with her.

Oh, and I'm quite young, so I only finished high school a few years ago. I'm 21, it's not like I graduated in the seventies or anything

 

[Boxlicker101]

Wow is that ever an overreaction.

I get the feeling that Aussie schools are way more laid back about stuff like that, though. Mainly because I had a teacher in high school that a lot of students- who I remind you were at an age where they could actually appreciate and understand sexual concepts- called sugar tits. To her face. It was sort of an injoke among the classes that I had with her.

Oh, and I'm quite young, so I only finished high school a few years ago. I'm 21, it's not like I graduated in the seventies or anything

As long as the students were at least 18 years old.

 

[PayDay]

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There’s nothing wrong with anti sexual harassment laws. The problem is these idiotic applications of them in inappropriate situations.

The only inappropriate behavior going on at Brookside Elementary, appears to have been perpetrated by the substitute teacher's eavesdropping on the two boys, and then not having the good sense to keep it to herself.

This says it all.

I purposely put slurs in the speech of my characters, just because of mis-understanding like this.