by Bangalore 13 Replies latest jw friends
Fourth-Grader Suspended For Sexual Harassment After Calling A Teacher ‘Cute'.
http://newsradio1310.com/fourth-grader-suspended-sexual-harassment/
http://www.jdjournal.com/2011/12/07/nine-year-old-suspended-for-sexual-harassment/
http://news.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474980858560
Bangalore
I'm not surprised. In this "no one is allowed to offend anyone, have feelings, or think one item or person as superior to anything or anyone else in any way" culture, anyone that thinks anyone else is attractive in any way has just committed a serious offense. Likewise, anyone that thinks someone is unappealing in any way has committed an equally serious offense. In the first case, it is harassment. The second case, it's offending someone else.
Welcome to Agenda 21+, Part One.
Protecting people from sexual harrassment is not an agenda. I had a friend that had to put up with this at work, and she couldn't eat, she couldn't sleep, she shook all the time. She really needed her job and was afraid of losing it everyday, but she had to tolerate attack after attack just to feed her kid.
That being said, people always take shit too far. Tell a JW they must shun a DF'd person and the next thing they are shunning inactive people and anyone else that rejected their message. This little boy is not guilty of sexual harrassment. This case is ridiculous, but in no way invalidates real complaints of harrassment. Has there been any follow up on this? People have no sense.
NC
Looks like it was just an offhand comment.. I think the school needs to get a grip.
In light of this story I can only say:
Um, maybe we should wait until we hear the school's side of the story... so far we just have a 9-year-old kid's side.
To be fair, it's the parents side. I doubt the kid called the media, and the parent would have been personally told by the principal exactly what had happened. I really fail to see how this is harrassment at all, considering it appears to be a one time comment made between two friends.
We don't really know what the kid was suspended for...we only have one side of the story...parent, kid...whatever. THEIR side. We need to hear the school's side.
I think it is a bit hard to believe that a little kid was suspended just for calling a teacher 'cute'.
I will be really surprised if that turns out to be the case.
With the amount of stuff I've seen and heard at schools involving religious persecution, racism, zero tolerance policies, etc., there is very little that would surprise me these days.
EDIT: Ah... I do see where they got the quote from. Still, even if what he really said was outright sexual, the punishment does not fit the crime.
EDIT2: Fiancee found the school districts response: http://www.theroot.com/buzz/district-reverses-suspension-4th-grader-who-called-teacher-cute
"Black boys are kids too" what the hell sort of quote is that? It happened in North Carolina so perhaps that's why his race is important. The whole thing is pathetic.
Um, maybe we should wait until we hear the school's side of the story...
Like apologizing to the family and forcing the Principal to retire?
--Not trying to be flippant. Cases involving nine-year old boys and animals like Koko the gorilla deligitimize a very real issue
