Tuesday, December 10, 2013

Six Year Old Suspended for kissing classmate

In Colorado, a six-year-old boy has been suspended from school for kissing a girl in class. This is just another example of political correctness gone way too far. The school has a zero-tolerance policy for unwanted touching; however, considering that the boy was only six, and that neither the girl nor the girl's parents complained to the school, or to anyone else for that matter, the school had no right to suspend him at all, much less for several days. While I understand the need for a strong policy for what to do in case of, as the school put it, unwanted touching, there should be some discretion on the victim's part, and on the parents' part. Also, the boy was only six, yet the school administrators were discussing charging the boy with sexual harassment, again without any say so by the girl's parents, and all the boy did was kiss his "girlfriend", as he put it, on the hand when they got in a group for reading time. The boy had no idea what sex was! He is now questioning his mother about what sex is, what harassment is, and other questions that no six year old should be asking. Schools in general nowadays are overstepping their bounds in order to protect their students from not-so-serious threats, and are doing more harm than good by trying to stay politically correct and sticking to rules exactly, without using any logic whatsoever, and this story is a perfect example of that trend.

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