“How dare a 5–year old child comfort her kindergarten classmate after she fell on the playground? Shameless children! Of course their Commander teacher had to discipline them. Somebody please pinch me, wake me up… this can’t be happening, I must be having a bad dream!” – this is what I wrote in April, reacting to this Boston Herald story.
Little did I know … here’s chapter 2:
“Bellmead, TX – Damarcus Blackwell’s four-year-old son was lining-up to get on the bus after school last month, when he was accused of rubbing his face in the chest of a female employee.
The principal of La Vega Primary School sent a letter to the Blackwells that said the pre-kindergartener demonstrated “inappropriate physical behavior interpreted as sexual contact and/or sexual harassment.” “ (full story on wbir.com)
Utter nonsense. Anyone who accuses a four-year-old of sexual harrasment (especially against an adult, what’s more, a teacher) really-really has no business being in childrens’ education.
Update: This commenter on another blog says it better than I do:
“You might want to think about how appropriate it is to have a teacher that has issues with toddlers hugging her. Someone who could feel sexually asaulted by a hug from a small child has big issues that need to be dealt with by a profesional. Not exactly the person you want teaching small children.”
Update #2: As said as this story is, I can’t help but find some reddit comments hilarious:
“what’s next? arresting babies for inappropriate sexual contact for breast-feeding??”
“If this father has formal school board documentation of inappropriate sexual contact involving his four-year-old he should ask the local police to arrest the teacher’s aide for child molestation and sue the school board for exposing his child to the molester and then continuing to employ her.
And of course, the school board can’t really deny the evidence – they’re the ones insisting on keeping it.”“You know I have to say the teacher’s aid is really playing with fire. Last I checked any kind of sexual encounter with a kid, even if it was initiated by the kid — is potentially a felony.”
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