What is the world coming to?!

[Selena_Kitt]

This is just crazy... accusing an eight year old of sexual harassment!?!?

What is the world coming to?????



Boy, 8, accused of sexual harassment

 

[OhMissScarlett]

Oh, for fuck sake. As a parent of a very sweet and affecionate child, this kind of thing scares the crap out of me. Like there aren't enough things to worry about when your child enters the school system.

 

[Aurora Black]

That is severely fucked up.

 

[fieryjen]

I was quite shocked at the cheap shot at the parents taken by the school officials.

Also... making him sign his name and all? That's pretty ridiculous. I don't have children yet, but I've worked with them lots before and I remember my own childhood well enough. Even if it was done on purpose, this is an overreaction. Repeated offenses, that's another story. But that apparently wasn't the case, and it looks like they really scared that poor boy.

 

[she_is_my_addiction]

That is the dumbest bullshit I have ever read in my short little life.

Goes to show exactly how idiotic people are.

 

[zeb1094]

Just what you expect from the indoctrination centers run by the Imperial Federal Govenment.

Pure stupidity by the school system and those in positions of authority. But it is to be expected from the halfwits in charge.

I really hope the school system goes broke defending themselves against the coming lawsuit. The school board, the principle, the teachers who participated in this farce should be terminated with extreme predjudice.

 

[fieryjen]

*sigh* I guess it's one more reason for me to become a teacher... to help prevent nonsense like this.

 

[Selena_Kitt]

Teachers don't have a lot of control, unfortunately, Jen...

Administrators either... I worked as a secretary for an assistant principal at a high school (two of them actually) and I can tell you, their hands were tied... they had to go by "district policy." I can't count how many kids were tossed out because of "Zero Tolerance" policies.

 

[cloudy]

I feel for that poor child.....how stupid can a group of adults act. It boggles the mind.

I'd have had my lawyer on the phone the minute I realized what was going on. Its ridiculous.

 

[cantdog]

The papers have hold of it now. I love the baldfaced reportage; Then the girl asked to sign a form... I just bet. That's what all those third graders always say, I imagine.

 

[fieryjen]

Teachers don't have a lot of control, unfortunately, Jen...

Administrators either... I worked as a secretary for an assistant principal at a high school (two of them actually) and I can tell you, their hands were tied... they had to go by "district policy." I can't count how many kids were tossed out because of "Zero Tolerance" policies.

Yeah, I know But I still think it's better than nothing.

 

[sophia jane]

Yeah that whole signing documents thing is insane. And the parents need to discipline him for what?
My son was getting love notes from girls in his class before we moved. Big fucking deal. Kids get crushes and write notes. When did that become a crime?

 

[Liar]

Does papers signed by an 8 year old hold any kind of legal water?

 

[Aurora Black]

Does papers signed by an 8 year old hold any kind of legal water?

Entrapment of a minor. Bastards.

 

[Belegon]

I can't count how many kids were tossed out because of "Zero Tolerance" policies.

Which just helps validate my opinion that "zero tolerence" is equal to "zero intelligence"....

 

[Belegon]

Does papers signed by an 8 year old hold any kind of legal water?

In the United States, it shouldn't. I don't know about criminal/legal concerns, but commercially speaking, no one under the age of 18 can legally enter into a binding contract under the Uniform Commercial Code, which has been accepted by every state except Louisiana...

at least, that is what my memory is quoting from Business Law...

 

[CharleyH]

This is just crazy... accusing an eight year old of sexual harassment!?!?

What is the world coming to?????



Boy, 8, accused of sexual harassment

Not sure why it is unbelievable, tons of boys grabbed me or played with my panties in grade school - I just did not care - In fact it felt good. More lately I have seen young boys that age exposing themselves to me while I walk down the street (though I think my comments about what a cute LITTLE thing might give them size problems later in life - lol). Today, girls are more prepared for this 'type' of play as not fun but wrong, but quite frankly at that age, if I didn't want it, I'd have beat the pulp out of the bastards - but that was me and each to their own. It's more disturbing to me that an eight year old has legal knowledge.

(This post has nothing to do with pedophilia - which I strongly abhore. )

 

[elsol]

When did parents become wimps?

If this had been me, as a child, accussed of sexual harrassment... oh god!

They would have called out the riot police and had them lined up in front of the school door in preparation for my mother's arrival.

That teacher would have been wearing one of those suits they make you put on to train attack dogs.

*shiver*

Sincerely,
ElSol

 

[Guest]

My wonderful little sister, Stephanie, who has quite the personality, was caught selling condoms in school when she was 11. Her friend stole them from her sister and brought them in, and Steph, being the enterprising person that she is, was selling them for three dollars a piece. Well, after being caught, her principal, a man who deserves to be kicked out, frisked her. He stuck his hands in the back pocket of her jeans and then patted her on both cheeks. There was a female teacher in the room, but if you ask me, she should have done the frisking.

The principal wasn't even talked to about the incident. He should have lost his job. That is sexual harassment, not a small child writing innocent love notes. This world is seriously fucked up.

 

[SeaCat]

The only comment I can make on this without enraging the PC Crowd is,
Bwahahahahahaha
You shall reap what you sow my friends. You shall reap what you sow.

Cat

 

[3113]

The only comment I can make on this without enraging the PC Crowd is,
Bwahahahahahaha
You shall reap what you sow my friends. You shall reap what you sow.

Sigh. I seriously doubt this was started by the PC folk--as easy as it is to use them as a convient scapegoat. Cast your mind back. Remember the McMartin case? The one which had parents so freaked out that kindergarden teachers stopped hugging their students for fear of being accused of wrongful touching and being sent to jail?

I can't say for sure--but if you research such laws, most go back to that. With schools protecting their asses by first making rules against teachers being allowed to touch students--and then extending those draconian laws to students when the potential lawsuits continued in other veins.

I'm sure there's absurd and obnoxious PC folk--as there are of every stripe. But PERSONALLY, all I've ever witnessed is the mockery of PC folk--to the point where every racist/sexist asshole who wants to get away with bad behavior says: "Hey, don't be so PC!" and someone with a rightful complaint backs down from real harrassment for fear of being labeled and mocked as "PC."

Take care who you blame for what and why...or you, too, will reap what you sow.

 

[zeb1094]

When did parents become wimps?

If this had been me, as a child, accussed of sexual harrassment... oh god!

They would have called out the riot police and had them lined up in front of the school door in preparation for my mother's arrival.

That teacher would have been wearing one of those suits they make you put on to train attack dogs.

*shiver*

Sincerely,
ElSol

Back when we went to school there was no such thing as sexual harrassment. Kids could pass love notes to each other, hold hands in the hall and on the play ground. Walk that special girl home. etc., etc., etc. Back before the days that you had to take a school bus to and from school. Even if you only lived two blocks away. Back when any neighbor on the block would call your mother when you were spotted doing something wrong. Back when your mother believed the neighbor. Back when the neighbors knew each other.

Now you have all these people with their little buffer zones around themselves and their children and you better not invade it. Don't even talk to me, even though we live nextdoor to each other. Don't look at me!

So now it's gotten down to little children, teaching them that you don't talk to anyone, don't touch anyone, don't look at anyone.

There is something really, really rotten going on. Really rotten.

 

[Norajane]

Emergency Removal? Is that what they're calling a half-day suspension these days? Does that stay in the kid's Permanent Record? Or that form he signed? Will his record as a sex offender follow him through high school?

 

[MasterPhoenix]

What a pile of crap....

 

[cantdog]

Back when we went to school there was no such thing as sexual harrassment. Kids could pass love notes to each other, hold hands in the hall and on the play ground. Walk that special girl home. etc., etc., etc. Back before the days that you had to take a school bus to and from school. Even if you only lived two blocks away. Back when any neighbor on the block would call your mother when you were spotted doing something wrong. Back when your mother believed the neighbor. Back when the neighbors knew each other.

Now you have all these people with their little buffer zones around themselves and their children and you better not invade it. Don't even talk to me, even though we live nextdoor to each other. Don't look at me!

So now it's gotten down to little children, teaching them that you don't talk to anyone, don't touch anyone, don't look at anyone.

There is something really, really rotten going on. Really rotten.

It's just fear, Zeb.

We are all to fear each other. It doesn't matter what the actual figures are, the crime rate is always soaring when you ask 'em. Security is a huge industry, the town and city budgets swell up when people think they need more cops. The pols only have to bark and growl and talk clamping down to get elected, saves anyone thinking. People generally fear their youth, fear the faceless Crime that is supposedly Everywhere. And that's not to mention the Immigrants and the dark people generally, anyone who speaks another language-- veiled racism. Racism is fear, too.

And now we have the Terrorists that are just as Everywhere, pols talk tough and clamp down. Makes the surveillance state easier to set up.

There's a lot of people for whom the more fear in the citizenry, the more power and wealth they can accumulate. They encourage fear.

Fear dissolves trust and drives people to irreflective decisions.