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| 4 -year-old Accused of Improperly Touching Teacher |
| 2006-12-09 |
| 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 I'll bet they do. Or if they don't, they're working on it frantically. 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. I can relate to this. 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." Makes sense to the principal. Only the principal. And maybe other highly trained educational professionals who are beholden to him for their jobs. The Thin 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. Makes sense to everyone else on the planet. Except highly trained educational professionals at La Vega. David Davis, the executive director of the Advocacy Center in Waco tends Read: I agree. But I have to cover my a$$ here for some stupid reason 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. Another highly professional statement. Wouldn't have guessed that myself. Thanks for the info. Got any links to the double-blind studies needed to divine that clever conclusion? 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. Looks like La Vega officials know they're wrong, but are immature and it shows in needing to hold onto some manufactured thread of validation with the inappropriate physical contact line. Well, it's a start. La Vega I.S.D. administrators told News Channel 25 they couldn't comment on this case because of student privacy issues. How convenient. Otherwise I'm sure they'd love to discuss it. |
| Posted by:gorb |
| #20 P.S. I say I'm amazed at how much paperwork they had to complete, and I'm a Fed. Govt' employee, lol! |
| Posted by: BA 2006-12-09 21:42 |
| #19 Instead of piling on the teacher (which is rightly deserved by the way), I feel this is actually the fault of the P.C. NEA/ACLU driven lawsuits that have FORCED this on school boards. Both my parents, my sis and my wife are teachers and it absolutely befuddles me at HOW MUCH paperwork they have to "file" just because of an "incident" like this. Kids are brutally honest, and (this is an extremely big what if) what would've happened if lil' Blackwell went home and told his dad that teach not only gave him a hug, but stuck her boobs in his face. Granted, NO 4 year old is doing that for sexual reasons (unless a LOT wrong is goin' on at home), but the teach was probably told by the principal or someone to file this complaint to cover their (the school's) arse in case the parents and/or the ACLU wanted to file a lawsuit. I truly believe that education is probably only second nowadays to fast foods in being "scared" of being sued (and rightly so, with all the PC police freaks out there). My mom sums it up this way (she taught for years before staying home when I and sis were born, then went back to teaching when we reached middle school age, so she was out for a total of 8-9 years or so)...."It used to be when a kid got in trouble, the parents would ask, 'What did lil' Johnny do?' Now, it's 'What did YOU do to lil' Johnny?'" No one in this day and age can believe their "lil' Johnny" would do ANYTHING wrong, so the blame the teachers. Easy scapegoat for some who refuse to parent correctly. Just playing devil's advocate here. I'm not saying the teach was right (not at all), but it's just the culture wrought upon them by an over-obsessive litigative society gone amok! |
| Posted by: BA 2006-12-09 21:41 |
| #18 Playing doctor usually doesn't start till at least age five I can still remember the time I got caught playing doctor with the little girl next door. Fortunately, it was a Wednesday and we were out golfing. [rimshot] The poor kids was probably taking an opportunity to wipe a runny nose! Or he was just hungry. "I didn't breast feed you for fourteen years for this!" [/Ethel Tirebiter] |
| Posted by: Zenster 2006-12-09 17:12 |
| #17 She must have turned him over and stuck his -youknow- in her mouth. What kind of sick pervert would consider a 4-year-old rubbing his face in her breast to be a sexual contact? |
| Posted by: CrazyFool 2006-12-09 16:05 |
| #16 Teachers who can't seem to teach students to read, write, or reason are caught up in inculculating social dogma. Hey, what do you know : same thing in France, in England, and I'd guess in most of Western Europe. Gramsci's long march through the institutions has been very successful. |
| Posted by: anonymous5089 2006-12-09 15:57 |
| #15 The question for me is why the employee felt complelled to bring charges? The American public education system has been in decline for the last 40 years and incidents like this are an example of how far it has fallen. Teachers who can't seem to teach students to read, write, or reason are caught up in inculculating social dogma. I didn't even mention math and science, if it weren't for foreign students, they wouldn't even bother with holding math and science classes. A step in the right direction would be outlaw the NEA and the ACLU. Another would be for the parents of this kid to sue the "female employee" and various school officials involved in this idiocy into bankruptcy and the school district into receivership. |
| Posted by: RWV 2006-12-09 15:08 |
| #14 So what's the truth here, she was leaning way way over? She was holding the child in a suggestive manner, and he took advantage. Shocked by her own feelings of lust she had to file charges to deflect attention from herself and onto the 4 year old. Where it rightly belonged! /sarcasm |
| Posted by: Mick Dundee 2006-12-09 14:37 |
| #13 Btw, when I was 5 (?), I hid under the table where my then teen aunt had an UK penpal, come to visit her, sit down for a little chat... and I bit her on the inside of the thigh, don't know what motivated me. That english girl slapped me and called me a "little pig", en français dans le texte. Those were the days. |
| Posted by: anonymous5089 2006-12-09 13:41 |
| #12 The poor kids was probably taking an opportunity to wipe a runny nose! As seen in Garfield. This story is the exact equivalent of the UK fellow being harassed by police for carrying a potentially harmful cricket ball. PCness gone amok, Nanny-State in its glory. |
| Posted by: anonymous5089 2006-12-09 13:39 |
| #11 The poor kids was probably taking an opportunity to wipe a runny nose! |
| Posted by: Jim 2006-12-09 12:52 |
| #10 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. Either that is one very tall 4-year old, or the aide bent down to hug him, presenting boobs first, envelopping the kid's face. Bet the aide is amply endowed. Bet the kid was just trying to breathe. I'm with RedNeck on this one. |
| Posted by: Thinemp Whimble2412 2006-12-09 12:42 |
| #9 A four year old child is not tall enough to "Rub his face against a teacher's chest" So what's the truth here, she was leaning way way over? She squatted down? Either way it's hardly a four year old's fault, he's well acustomed to rubbing his face against a female chest at that age. |
| Posted by: Redneck Jim 2006-12-09 12:18 |
| #8 Playing doctor usually doesn't start till at least age five (^8 |
| Posted by: 3dc 2006-12-09 11:23 |
| #7 abishop@lavegaisd.org Email the district administrator and let them know your view on this. The administrators hide behind their computer screens. Let's bring it to them. |
| Posted by: Art 2006-12-09 11:21 |
| #6 She got a kick out of the hug and was afraid it showed. |
| Posted by: SwissTex 2006-12-09 08:53 |
| #5 If the kid tried to put a dollar in her thong, slipped some tongue into her ear, and requested a table dance, well, ok. But other than that, it just shows how warped that aide and her supervisors are if they think a little four year old boy was coming on to her. Anyone who interprets an innocent preschool child's affection as sexual behavior has no business being around kids in the first place. That's the kind of mindset that pedophiles have. They justify their sick behavior by saying the kid wanted it or was coming on to them....just like this gang of idiots are doing. |
| Posted by: Swamp Blondie 2006-12-09 07:07 |
| #4 Could we bring back corporeal punishment, at least for teachers? |
| Posted by: gromgoru 2006-12-09 07:01 |
| #3 Which one is four years old ? For how fast they grow up now, probably the one with the boobs. |
| Posted by: Zenster 2006-12-09 01:11 |
| #2 The smarter one. |
| Posted by: gorb 2006-12-09 00:48 |
| #1 Which one is four years old ? |
| Posted by: wxjames 2006-12-09 00:41 |