Texas child suspended after hugging aide (what the

[rodeodance]

heck is wrong with adults???!!). How horrible for this little kid!!

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16159302/

Texas child suspended after hugging aide

Administrators say pre-kindergarten student’s action was ‘inappropriate’


Updated: 53 minutes ago

WACO, Texas - School administrators gave a 4-year-old student an in-school suspension for inappropriately touching a teacher's aide after the pre-kindergartner hugged the woman.

A letter from La Vega school district administrators to the student's parents said that the boy was involved in "inappropriate physical behavior interpreted as sexual contact and/or sexual harassment" after he hugged the woman and he "rubbed his face in the chest of (the) female employee" on Nov. 10.

DaMarcus Blackwell, the father of the boy who attends La Vega Primary School, said he filed a complaint with the district. He said that his son doesn't understand why he was punished.

"When I got that letter, my world flipped," Blackwell said in a story in Sunday's editions of the Waco Tribune-Herald.

La Vega school district officials said student privacy laws prevented them from commenting...........

[MannyGoldstein]

1. What The %^&# is Up With Texas?

I'm sure that there are some normal people there, but it seems like there's more craziness, per capita, than any other state.

[w4rma]

2. What the heck is wrong with Texas? These stories always come from there. (nt)

[proud patriot]

3. as a pre school Teacher this suspension astonishes me

I'm mean seriously WTF?

[Kagemusha]

6. I'm sure it's following a zero-tolerance policy to the letter.

Er, excuse me. A zero-thought policy.

[Ilsa]

Oh hell, here in Texas, they'll label him a sexual predator for the

rest of his life for that hug and squeeze.

[gorbal]

16. They'll probably put him on that "list" of sexual predators

Why do people have to be so detached and inhuman?

[GreenPartyVoter]

4. My almost 7 yr old still rubs his face on my breasts when he hugs me

I nursed him til he was 2 and a half and sometimes he says he still misses his 'beebees'.

Maybe the hug from this kid was the same sort of deal?

[imouttahere]

5. It's gotten to the point where you can't help but say....

What the f**k is up, Texas??? Yes, we all know that weird stuff happens everywhere, but there's just too much crap coming out of there these days, starting with politicians (not just BushCo)

[tammywammy]

7. Wasn't there a story a few months ago

about a 6 year old (around that, definitely elementary aged) being suspended for sexual harrassment of other children?

I'll see if I can find that article.

[Pierre.Suave]

8. So...

the teacher was hugged by a 4 year old and her reaction is sexual harassment?

Thats crazy.

[Pierre.Suave]

9. So...

deleted double post.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

10. ACA's (ass-covering administrators) Gone Wild

:grr:

[coffeenap]

11. Let's see, height of kid vs. height of aide--unavoidable, I'd say.

One of the stupidest things I have ever heard. Grrr...

[Cass]

12. This is nuts. Poor kid.

[Speck Tater]

13. PC run amok, and I blame the "radical" liberals. Seriously! (nt)

[rodeodance]

14. I found a discussion here also:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=364&topic_id=2899209&mesg_id=2899209

[Gemini Cat]

15. What a pile!

Like the kid knew or even cared what he was doing.
He wanted to give a hug. He wasn't doing anything wrong.
Stupid people and their over active imaginations.
This pisses me off.

edited for semi clarity.

[Vidar]

17. Texas Education: Stick 'em in a Skinner box & give 'em a gun.

[qwlauren35]

18. I think he knew what he was doing...

He just didn't know there was anything wrong with it. OR, he knew there was something wrong with it in that it might be ANNOYING, but not anything else.

I agree with the mother whose child misses his bee-bees. Many kids grow up in families with large breasted women, and breasts are very comforting, and part of the "hug" experience.

It's also possible that he's a breast-tweaker, because he thinks its funny, kind of like honking a horn. Might be something he saw his dad do to his mom, and his mom laughed.

I would have said that a parent-teacher conference might have been in order, because there would need to be some work done to help the child learn that that type of hug was only supposed to be with family.

I can imagine that the teacher's aide might have been VERY uncomfortable if her breasts were grabbed or tweaked, or if the kid rubbed his face in them. And if the kid did it on purpose, she might have been quite annoyed! But HARRASSMENT????

Lawdamercy, some people just don't understand what the term means.