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post Feb 9 2006, 10:13 AM
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Sex-harass suspension of 1st grader stirs debate
Experts say kids his age don’t understand; mother is outraged

A 6-year-old boy is getting a lesson on the meaning of sexual harassment long before he’ll be able to spell it.

The first-grader was suspended for three days for sexual harassment after he put two fingers inside a classmate’s waistband, school officials told his mother, Berthena Dorinvil. The boy told her he only touched the girl’s shirt after the girl touched him.

Experts say only in rare, troubling cases can children that young truly sexually harass one another.

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post Feb 9 2006, 10:46 AM
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Maybe I'm naive in saying this, but I believe that a three day suspension is way too harsh in this case. In my mind, I don't believe that six-year-olds have it in their conscious thoughts and behaviors to force any type of sexual contact onto another being. I know I didn't. Not for a long time, at that.
 
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post Feb 9 2006, 10:59 AM
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That's ridiculous! Six year-olds do not have the brain capacity to even understand sexual harrassment.
 
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post Feb 9 2006, 12:01 PM
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What in the world????

My son is six - if he were ever suspended for something like this at his age, I would seriously march my ass up the City Hall steps and do some serious spanking.
 
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post Feb 9 2006, 02:11 PM
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a 6 year old got suspended for that?

all he did was stick two fingers in some girl's waisband. it's not like he took her clohtes off or touched her in private areas. he was probably going to give her a wedgie or something _dry.gif

like what other's have said, he probably didn't even know that it was "wrong."
 
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post Feb 9 2006, 05:34 PM
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Three days? Two fingers in a waistband?

C'mon. Ridiculous.
 
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post Feb 9 2006, 05:47 PM
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What did the girl get?

I bet she got nothing against her. All teachers are sexist in first grade against the boys, face it.
 
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thats absolutely ridiculous though. i too believe that at that age they aren't conscious of what they are doing...its not like he even stuck his whole hand into her pants or anything, jeez...
 
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post Feb 10 2006, 08:53 AM
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This is totally ridiculous.

I agree what a lot of you said above... the boy himself doesn't even know what he did wrong.
 
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post Feb 10 2006, 09:13 AM
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post Feb 10 2006, 12:30 PM
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well that's just bullshit.

seriously?

i mean, surely they have more sense than that. are they not meant to be child care experts? would they not hav eseen that a million times before?
 
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post Feb 10 2006, 11:36 PM
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he probably didnt know what he was doing. stupid republicans
 
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post Feb 10 2006, 11:39 PM
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that's... wrong.
six years olds shouldn't be punished for harassment, they probably don't even know what it is.
 
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post Feb 10 2006, 11:42 PM
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Where'd republicans come in... huh.gif

As said before, that's absurd and unreasonable.

Reminds me of that one captions in the Caption Hall of Fame.
"Getting some before reaching <insert young age>. Priceless."
Something like that.

Still. What the heck.
 
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post Feb 11 2006, 02:10 AM
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How cute but .... not the punishment o__O
 
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post Feb 11 2006, 05:48 AM
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that's ridiculous. six-year-olds can't even comprehend the meaning of sex or anything like it at their age. and by calling "sticking two fingers into her waistband" sexual harassment? it's not like she protested against it. children at this age don't understand anything remotely sexual, to them, it was probably all just a game.
 
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post Feb 11 2006, 10:29 AM
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maybe he was engaging in the other meaning of sexual harassment: i.e. , harrassing someone because of thier sex?

6 year old boys will make fun of girls, and after a certain point it's sexual harassment and illegal.
 
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post Feb 11 2006, 10:36 AM
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He probably didn't even know what was going on...
 
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post Feb 11 2006, 10:41 AM
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QUOTE(sadolakced acid @ Feb 11 2006, 4:29 PM)
maybe he was engaging in the other meaning of sexual harassment:  i.e. , harrassing someone because of thier sex?

6 year old boys will make fun of girls, and after a certain point it's sexual harassment and illegal.
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possibly.

although at that age, one would thing that would be labelled simpyl as bullying, rather than sexual harrasment.

and if so, REALLY misleading article
 
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post Feb 11 2006, 01:17 PM
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what the hell? haha, that's crazy, 3 days? they're little kids, they don't know what they're really doing huh.gif
 
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post Feb 11 2006, 03:24 PM
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He probably doesn't even know what the word 'sex' means. Hence, he doesn't know what 'sexual harassment' means. Suspending him for three days is ridiculous.
 
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post Feb 11 2006, 03:53 PM
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awwh poor kid..he got seduced by the little girl! the girl tricked him!!! haha..just kidding..i don't think he even knew what he was doing..i surely don't remember the things i was doing when i was 6.... pinch.gif
 
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post Feb 11 2006, 04:01 PM
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QUOTE(sadolakced acid @ Feb 11 2006, 10:29 AM)
maybe he was engaging in the other meaning of sexual harassment:  i.e. , harrassing someone because of thier sex?

6 year old boys will make fun of girls, and after a certain point it's sexual harassment and illegal.
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but the little boy claims that the girl touched him first.

little kids just think that the opposite sex has cooties, they're not aware that it could count as sexual harassment...or even know what that is anyway.
 
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post Feb 11 2006, 09:25 PM
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Ludicrous.

Maybe I should have been suspended for sexual harassment when I was his age. I ran around the playground telling boys I wanted to have sex with them before I even knew what it was.
 
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QUOTE(sadolakced acid @ Feb 11 2006, 10:29 AM)
maybe he was engaging in the other meaning of sexual harassment:  i.e. , harrassing someone because of thier sex?

6 year old boys will make fun of girls, and after a certain point it's sexual harassment and illegal.
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That requires intent, though. A six-year-old can hardly intend to sexually harass someone; except in very specific circumstances, he doesn't even know what sexual harassment is.
 
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post Feb 12 2006, 01:52 AM
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shit if i got suspeneded for by my fingers in a girls waistband there wouldnt be a school in the city that would take me shifty.gif
 
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post Feb 12 2006, 02:03 AM
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I'm sure the school district got legal opinions from their attorney(s) before giving this punishment. If the girl's parents were really pushy, they could have threatened a bunch of legal action if the district didn't do something. It's my guess the district was backed into the corner or simply set out to make an example of this kid.

It's hard to accurately define the appropriateness of the suspension because the district is bound by confidentiality laws that will restrict disclosure of this situation.
 
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post Feb 12 2006, 11:11 AM
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i thought the girl started it, and the little boy gets suspended. come on he's only 6
 
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post Feb 12 2006, 06:23 PM
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I should have been suspended for a million times.
Come on, it is just the waistband, not her chest or privates...or taking her clothes off, things like that.
 
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lol i never even had the balls to do that when i was in first grade... he should have been taught better.
 
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i heard that. wow.. haha...
my younger brothers that age..
hes kida weird so he dont know that stuff yet.

thats kinda funny..
i believe the consiquences were reasonable.
haha.. my opinion.

i heard that the girl was older than the 6 year old?
 
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post Feb 12 2006, 09:02 PM
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We all know that children at that age is just curious about the differences between the genders, but it is just unreasonable to say the kid was harassing the girl
 
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post Feb 16 2006, 01:23 AM
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post Feb 16 2006, 02:43 AM
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That's just plain stupidity. The kid is SIX YEARS OLD. Yeah, at that age, kids REALLY know what trynna sexually approach someone is all about... _dry.gif
 
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post Feb 16 2006, 05:35 AM
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oh shit!Ludicrous!just 6 year-old guy!
 
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That's ridiculous! Six year-olds do not have the brain capacity to even understand sexual harrassment.

I agree....
 
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post Feb 18 2006, 01:41 AM
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A guy at my school smacked me in the face, intentionally, in high school, and he got 5 days suspension. So he was only two days more severe than in innocently ignorant 6 year old? I mean seirously, the boy probably didnt even mean to. If he stuck two fingers in her cootchie, another story. BUt did he? No. How rediculous. I know people who have done much worse in high school, where they know exactly what they are doing, and have gotten less severe punishement. He didn't even grope her chest. dumb dumb dumb. Just swat his hand and tell him he cant do that. Its not nice. This crap is gonna follow him around for a long time. He won't even know what he did for a nother couple of years. Puh.
 
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post Feb 18 2006, 11:08 AM
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theres one way to go against that he could have been giving her a hug or something
but then again i do understand the suspension
w/e little kids.......
 
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blink.gif This reminds me of that family in my friend's neighborhood. The father has been accused of sexual assault 4 times and has been in jail for about 10 years of his life total, one of his two sons is currently in jail for sexual misconduct, the other one is away with his grandfather so he won't have to deal with his father, and the mother ran away a long time ago. I feel sorry for them, but at the same time, I find it really disgusting.
 
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This is ridiculous a six year old dosn't even think that way...!
 
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A guy at my school smacked me in the face, intentionally, in high school, and he got 5 days suspension. So he was only two days more severe than in innocently ignorant 6 year old? I mean seirously, the boy probably didnt even mean to. If he stuck two fingers in her cootchie, another story. BUt did he? No. How rediculous. I know people who have done much worse in high school, where they know exactly what they are doing, and have gotten less severe punishement. He didn't even grope her chest. dumb dumb dumb. Just swat his hand and tell him he cant do that. Its not nice. This crap is gonna follow him around for a long time. He won't even know what he did for a nother couple of years. Puh.


laugh.gif Danelle.
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I think you said it all.
 
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post Feb 18 2006, 04:56 PM
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he's only a six year old...
he doesnt know what's wrong or right... ermm.gif
 
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That...is truly idiotic.
I use to run around the playground trying to kiss boys and I never got suspended. Really, come now. Did this little girl get suspended as well? No. Geez-that's what kids do at this age. They really should've let him off.
 
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thats not right. Its a 6 year old. I doubt he meant to do any real sexual harrasement. Its probably all a misunderstanding. How much can a 6 year old know. This is like my first time hearing a 6 year old getting suspended. wow. just wow.
 
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I know that when I was 5 I kissed a boy on the cheek and then he kissed me on the cheek and I smacked him on the face(don't know why but kids are just wierd that way) Anyways to make a long story short I got paddled!!
 
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thats messed up...and ppl ARE sexist against boys...

i remember i worked as a YWCA assistant counselour and we worked w/ 2nd graders...all the other assistant counselours were 16 yr old females and they thought this little 2nd grader boy was cute...so they chased him around and gave him wedgies and spanked his ass playfully...

if a 16 yr old guy had done that to a 2nd grader girl....he WOULDVE BEEN FIRED and accussed...but the girls didnt get in trouble for it b/c...we were females...so its ok for us to do that to a little boy..it was kinda..pedophilic tho...for 16yr old girls to have a little crush on a..7 yr old boy..
 
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Honestly. How the heck was he supposed to know? My four-year-old sister has got to be the horniest one in her preschool and she doesn't get suspended.
 
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That's just disgusting
When I was in 2nd grade, two girls in my class went into the same stall with eachother and showed eachother their privates.
You wanna know their punishment?
The superviser said, "That's bad. Shame on you. Do not do that again"
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Shame on the people that suspended the poor guy :\
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wow. that`s unfair. it`s not like he knew that he was doing anything wrong in the first place.

people do worse things in middle school&high school and nothing ever happens to them. in most cases.
 
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How dumb. Do six year olds know what sexual harrassment is? I didn't think so.
 
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3 day suspension?? I got a 2 day suspension for BURNING someone with a lighter. I'm not saying this because I'm proud of it; I'm just saying it to prove my point. This is insane, really. I think the debate should be more about the fact that this child is getting a 3 day suspension for something that's barely a level 3 offense and not the fact that he's too young to know about sex.
 
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Thats odd.
That is extremnly soo gross when little kids do that..
 
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3 day suspension?? I got a 2 day suspension for BURNING someone with a lighter. I'm not saying this because I'm proud of it; I'm just saying it to prove my point. This is insane, really. I think the debate should be more about the fact that this child is getting a 3 day suspension for something that's barely a level 3 offense and not the fact that he's too young to know about sex.


Geez what does a person have to do to get burned by you? Let me know so I don't do it. laugh.gif I was watching Tyra and this girl set another girls hair on fire. Tyra was like YOU SET HER HAIR ON FIRE. NO! YOU SET HER HAIR ON FIRE over and over again. That girl only got a few days suspension. Pretty crazy the standards.
 
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UGH. That's horrible. That doesn't make any sense whatsover, he couldn't have known what he was doing.
 
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^ROFLROFLROFL.

One time in kindergarten, there was this really fat girl and I fell. I was behind her so I accidently grabbed her butt. Yes, accidently.
 
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aww... =\


that's not right.
 
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I think that's pretty stupid. The kid probably doesn't even know why he got suspended.
 
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