4-year-old suspended for hug

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WACO — 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.

After Blackwell filed a complaint, a subsequent letter from the district said the offense had been changed to “inappropriate physical contact” and removed references of sexual contact or sexual harassment from the boy’s file.

Administrators said the district’s student handbook contains no specific guidelines referring to contact between teachers and students but does state that inappropriate physical contact will result in a discipline referral.

The La Vega school district, which has five schools, covers about 30 miles around Waco.

Source: http://gosanangelo.com/news/2006/dec/11 ... pended-hug

WTH is wrong with some people? You don't go around suspended a very young child for a hug since they don't know any better at that age.

[Twinkle]

That's disgusting. The child is four years old! That poor kid. He's going to think it's wrong for him to be affectionate now. Stupid authorities.

Seriously though. The world has gone mad. Kids fight and argue and bully each other every single day, yet they dole out serious punishments for hugging?! There's something wrong there.

[Igg]

Dudes, the four year old was clearly hitting on her.

[Christopher]

Dudes, the four year old was clearly hitting on her.

Exactly. Everyone taking his side is exactly what he had planned from the beginning.

[Igg]

He need to learn that it's not appropriate.

At least not in school hours.

[Alex]

Ugh. I read about this on MTS a few days ago, and it's pathetic.

Does that teacher's aide have any idea how young children act?! Because if she doesn't... what on earth is she doing in a primary school!?

[Kitten Medli]

That's pretty sorry.

[Ammer]

That is just disgusting; why the Hell is he being suspended for giving the teacher's aide a hug?

Seriously, that teacher's aide needs to be slapped if she thinks that a four year old giving her a hug is "sexual harassment". He's FOUR YEARS OLD for crise sakes!

This just really makes me angry. What the Hell is the matter with that school?!

[Ginger Harp Seal Pup]

Gosh. I don't really know what to say. That's disgusting. Absolutely disgusting. Sexual harrassment? Seriously? He's four years old...

[Ammer]

Gosh. I don't really know what to say. That's disgusting. Absolutely disgusting. Sexual harrassment? Seriously? He's four years old...

That reminds me of the time when a judge ruled in favour of a rapist/pervert who had "sex" with a 5 year-old. The judge said that the 5 year old was "sexually promiscuous".

But he was discharged soon after. What a moron.

[Kugetsu]

I'm trying to decide if the child is the 4-year old or the teacher's aide.

That's one of the dumbest things I've read in a while. xD Silly people.

Then again... I don't know... maybe that teacher is right, that the 4-year old might have been a smooth operator in disguise and was hitting on her! Curse you 4-year olds and your constant deviance!

[hikaru_dream]

I don't think it's so in this case, but one of my teachers told me (many many times) about kid he taught once. He apparently looked like a regular preschooler but actually had the mind of a thirty year old. Something to do with the mind growing really fast, or something.

Couldn't be so in this case?

[Anoohilator]

I don't think it's so in this case, but one of my teachers told me (many many times) about kid he taught once. He apparently looked like a regular preschooler but actually had the mind of a thirty year old. Something to do with the mind growing really fast, or something.

Couldn't be so in this case?

It probably would have been mentioned *shrug*

Kudos to the kid - that's one story he can tell his friends in high school.

[pipsqueeek]

My god, that's stupid! The kid's four years old, how would he know not to do that? Maybe tell him it's not something he should do, but don't suspend him for it. And yeah, what's the teacher's aide doing working with kids if she's going to get so uptight about something like that? Kids will hug you, and every so often they're bound to end up touching you somewhere uncofortable. It's just something you have to deal with.

I'm also wondering how a four year old managed to rub his face in her chest. I guess she was sitting down?

[benladesh]

Thats just sad. Kids need affection. I think there is nothing wrong with a kid hugging a teacher. Well if he is young. They are just teaching the kid that hugs are wrong when to the contrary they are a good thing.