[ire]

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/23928454/

In Maryland, 166 elementary school children were suspended last year for sexual harassment, including three preschoolers, 16 kindergartners and 22 first-graders, according to the State Department of Education. Statistics for the District were not available.

A 4-year-old in Texas was given an in-school suspension after a teacher's aide accused him of sexual harassment for pressing his face into her breasts when he hugged her.

 

[$tinkle]

4-year-old in Texas was given an in-school suspension after a teacher's aide accused him of sexual harassment for pressing his face into her breasts when he hugged her.

have to wonder of all the "firsts" parents like to journal or scrapbook, if "first motorboat" was this one.

 

[ire]

have to wonder of all the "firsts" parents like to journal or scrapbook, if "first motorboat" was this one.

 

[valve bouncer]

Teachers are in a damned if they do and damned if they don't situation. Don't report it and someone construes it as "oohh she loved it when little Timmy buried his face in her ample cleavage, she's an animal". Report it and completely stretch the bounds of credibility. It's the CYA principle taken to ridiculous but inevitable lengths.

 

[$tinkle]

It's the CYA principle taken to ridiculous but inevitable lengths.

i believe inevitable lengths are appropriate in this situation.

tits the truth, i say.

 

[LordOpie]

I agree that the teachers are CYA, but the Admin should take a stand as the third party and declare these actions innocuous. Maybe a few kids need help, but otherwise, they're creating psychopaths who will be afraid to live and a few of them will really snap.

 

[$tinkle]

the stories are legion: http://zerointelligence.net/

 

[Tenchiro]

Zero tolerance policies are the tools of ineffectual management, which is a direct byproduct of the Peter Principle. Parents need to take a stand in school districts and get them to understand this is ridiculous.

Of course if they did and policies were relaxed, the same parents would probably hella sue as soon as something happened to a precious snowflake.

 

[DRB]

or you get this...

http://www.ridemonkey.com/forums/showthread.php?t=199829

 

[ire]

or you get this...

http://www.ridemonkey.com/forums/showthread.php?t=199829

my wife and I were shocked when we saw that on the news

 

[$tinkle]

my wife and I were shocked when we saw that on the news

that's b/c news is now infotainment.
it should be on spikeTV between "most outrageous police chases" and "the ultimate fighter"

 

[ire]

that's b/c news is now infotainment.
it should be on spikeTV between "most outrageous police chases" and "the ultimate fighter"

There's an idea for a new show......."3rd Grader Octagon" We could pit an adult against a group of pissed off 3rd graders in the octagon. Put up some money for the winner and I think we have a show!!

 

[LordOpie]

There's an idea for a new show......."3rd Grader Octagon" We could pit an adult against a group of pissed off 3rd graders in the octagon. Put up some money for the winner and I think we have a show!!

Reminds me of when Michael Jackson was the guest host on the Mickey Mouse Club.

 

[eaterofdog]

There's an idea for a new show......."3rd Grader Octagon" We could pit an adult against a group of pissed off 3rd graders in the octagon. Put up some money for the winner and I think we have a show!!

They will just end up rolling around on the floor and squeezing each other like those MMA dudes. BOOOORING.

 

[jimmydean]

There's an idea for a new show......."3rd Grader Octagon" We could pit an adult against a group of pissed off 3rd graders in the octagon. Put up some money for the winner and I think we have a show!!

I sense a new reality show!

"Are you badder than a pack of 3rd graders?" A cage match for $$$

I am pitching it to Spike TV this weekend.

 

[ire]

I am pitching it to Spike TV this weekend.

Instead of "3rd Grader Octagon" call it:

"Are you tougher than a 3rd grader?"

That should seal the deal

 

[$tinkle]

another uppity 3rd grader here in colorado

 

[stevew]

If I were a kid today in public school.....

 

[dan-o]

another uppity 3rd grader here in colorado

LOL. Remember those markers that had a smell corresponding to the color? I used to walk around with the end of my nose completely colored with ink.

 

[Tenchiro]

http://www.9news.com/news/article.aspx?storyid=89333

Eight-year-old Eathan Harris was originally suspended from Harris Park Elementary School for three days. Principal Chris Benisch reduced the suspension to one day after complaints from Harris' parents.

Harris used a black Sharpie marker to color a small area on the sleeve of his sweatshirt. A teacher sent him to the principal when she noticed him smelling the marker and his clothing.

"It smelled good," Harris said. "They told me that's wrong."

In his letter suspending the child, Benisch wrote that smelling the marker fumes could cause the boy to "become intoxicated."

A toxicologist with the Rocky Mountain Poison Control Center says that claim is nearly impossible.

Dr. Eric Lavonas says non-toxic markers like Sharpies, while pungent-smelling, cannot be used to get high.

"I don't know whether it would be possible for a real overachiever to figure out a way to get high off them," Lavonas said. "But in regular use, it's just not something that's going to happen."

"Principals make hundreds of decisions everyday based on our best judgment. And in that time, smelling that marker, I felt like, 'Wow, that's a very serious marker,'" Benisch said.

Despite the medical evidence, Benisch promised to draw an even clearer line on markers.

"We've purged every permanent marker there is in this building," he said.

Hah, how do people like this get in positions of power?!?

 

[LordOpie]

yeah, we're not proud of that.

 

[Tenchiro]

yeah, we're not proud of that.

Eating Paste = Juvy until you're 18

 

[ire]

They eliminated all markers in the school? How f*cking stupid of a reaction is that? If I was a parent I would be organizing to get that principal fired, if he is that stupid then he has no business being in charge of other people