4 year old accused of sexual harassment

[THL]

BELLMEAD- A four-year-old hugged his teachers aide and was put into in-school suspension, according to the father. But La Vega school administrators have a different story.

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 prinicipal 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."

Blackwell says it's ridiculous that the aide would misread a hug from a four-year-old. Blackwell wrote to administrators demanding that the whole incident be expunged from his son's academic file because his son is too young to know what it means to act sexually.

David Davis, the executive director of the Advocacy Center in Waco tends to agree with Blackwell. He says assuming the boy has not had sexual encounters, or been inappropriately exposed to pornography, most four-year-olds are sexually innocent.

Blackwell got a response from the La Vega administration. The sexual references on the discipline referral were removed. But the thing that makes Blackwell most upset is they told him "your request for an apology by the aide and removal of all paperwork regarding this incident is denied." Now the young student's file will refer to the incident as "inappropriate physical contact." And Blackwell says he will continue to fight the district.

La Vega I.S.D. administrators told News Channel 25 they couldn't comment on this case because of student privacy issues.

http://www.kxxv.com/Global/story.asp?S=5785699
What The Hell?

[Asim Aquil]

That little twerp. I can totally see this happening in todays world. Not saying that he'd know anything real about sex or anything but the kid could've gone like "Ooh booobies!!"

But technically don't they need some sort of evidence rather than the aides word?

[Amled]

Oh, the sublime stupidity of an officious public official!!!!
Putting this incident in the kids permenant record is obscene to say the least!

[JBodnar39]

Oh, the sublime stupidity of an officious public official!!!!
Putting this incident in the kids permenant record is obscene to say the least!

I think that they may be putting it in his record so that if something siilar happens again and again, there may be cause to driect the kid to counseling or something like that.

[TopHatter]

That little twerp. I can totally see this happening in todays world. Not saying that he'd know anything real about sex or anything but the kid could've gone like "Ooh booobies!!"

NOT condoning this, but....

Yup, that's what I was thinking.

A child doesn't have to be "sexualized" to want to bury his face in a beautiful bosom.

Beauty is beauty, even it you're still 4 years old.

The action itself probably means that his parents needed to do a better job of socializing the kid. Ya know, "don't pick your nose in public, say 'please and thank you, a woman's chest isn't a place for your face until you're old enough to buy her dinner'" etc

[Firestorm]

He was probably just sleepy and needed to rest his head somewhere.Poor kid.

[Parihaka]

The child is four years old. Four. What has happened here is adults are projecting adult behaviour patterns onto a child whos brain is barely beginning to even function, just the way people project human behavioural patterns onto animals. Anthropomorphism for children. Just because your advertising portrays four year olds in sexually provocative ways or adult ways doesn't mean they are. They are equating adult human behaviour with a four year old

The teachers aide and school board? must be sacked immediately and someone competent put in their place, as these people know NOTHING about children. NOTHING

read this "inappropriate physical behavior interpreted as sexual contact and/or sexual harassment."

These people interpret a four-year-olds behaviour as sexual, in other words they see four year olds as sexual.
And they're teachers and school administrators? They should be horse whipped and banned from coming within 100 metres of a child.

[Arcane Quinze]

How completely and utterly ridiculous!

Do these people even have kids? Children, when hugged by their mothers, often bury their heads in the comfort of their mother's chest. Boys AND girls alike. It's no surprise they would do the same with another female adult they trust. This shows a total ignorance of how young children function. The boy is 4 not 14, for Pete's sake!

Lord help us all. The world is truly going mad.

[Parihaka]

This shows a total ignorance of how young children function. .

It's gob-smacking isn't it

[dalem]

And they're teachers and school administrators? They should be horse whipped and banned from coming within 100 metres of a child.

Yep. The kid isn't the problem, it's the whackjob adults.

-dale

[THL]

I think that they may be putting it in his record so that if something siilar happens again and again, there may be cause to driect the kid to counseling or something like that.

The...Kid...Is...Four!!

He does not need counseling - the teacher, she needs counseling.

[THL]

The action itself probably means that his parents needed to do a better job of socializing the kid. Ya know, "don't pick your nose in public, say 'please and thank you, a woman's chest isn't a place for your face until you're old enough to buy her dinner'" etc

TH - Rarely do you and I disagree on something, but we SO do here :). Up until about 3 months ago my 4yo went through a 6 month phase or so where she seemed to "accidentally" brush up against mine and my mothers at every chance she got. If she was sitting in my lap and we were reading, she would rest her hand on one as if it were a table. She would go so far as to apologize for squishing one if she hugged too tight or ended up at the wrong level.

You know me and you know how I raise her - you know that Kenzie has no lack of socialization and that there is also no shortage of my correcting her when she is wrong. But this seemed to go on and on despite my efforts of correcting her behavior and explaining how this was not something that was acceptable - she actually seemed to be oblivious to my corrections, like she could not at all figure out what it was she was doing wrong.

Than one day it stopped. I dont know what happened or what changed that day but it has not happened again.

I dont think there is anything wrong with this little boy and I dont think there is anything that the parents have done wrong...he is just a normal 4 year old.

[TopHatter]

You know me and you know how I raise her - you know that Kenzie has no lack of socialization and that there is also no shortage of my correcting her when she is wrong.

I dont think there is anything wrong with this little boy and I dont think there is anything that the parents have done wrong...he is just a normal 4 year old.

Ah, but those are two points that we can agree on. :)

[JBodnar39]

The...Kid...Is...Four!!

He does not need counseling - the teacher, she needs counseling.

Certainly a 4 year old could have no sexual desires towards the teacher. I was not there and neither was anyone else on this board. The teacher probably gets hugs from a dozen kids a day and for some reason the hug from this kid caused her some sort of alarm. Some children -even very young children - display behviour that they see at home that may not be appropriate. If I stick my face in my girlfriedn's bosum when I hug heri n front of my five year old he might think that is oaky. A more extreme example is a five year old that ( a relative of a friend) that sometimes whips out his thing and pisses where he stands - that is obviously something he sees done at home, so he thinks it is okay.

[Parihaka]

Childrens behaviour is often innapropriate, they're just forming their brains, at four this kid still has at least 2 years to go before the basics are in place. Take my wee boy. He's about 18 months and he's stopped now but regularly for about three months stuck his hand down his mothers blouse and grabbed her b00bie. (and who wouldn't, this is afterall the time where what become men develop their b00bie fixation, but I digress) He also stuck his hand down anyone elses blouse, t-shirt etc who happened to be holding him to see if they too had b00bies.
Whenever it happened the women concerned would say something like 'oh, he's going to be a fresh one when he grows up, isn't he" laughing all the while. The men he did it to would look at me, I'd say "looking for b00bies", they'd nod and say "good lad"
Now by these half-wits measure, my son would now have a permanent record for inappropriate physical contact, infact probably worse. They really do need horsewhipping.