4-year-old suspended after hugging teacher's aide

[Morganite]

This makes my head hurt.
As was noted in the place I was pointed to this story, what has to happen to someone to make a four year old is mentally capable of sexually harassing them?
-Morgan, isn't sure she'd really thought about the concept that boys and girls were different at age 4...

[ECSNorway]

Oh, it could get worse. At least they removed the sexual-harassment charge from his permanent record.
Just imagine the poor kid growing up and going through life, having to register everywhere as a sex offender because he hugged a teacher when he was 4 years old. Geez.
This is the fruit of radical feminism: Oversensitivity, overreaction, and overpunishment.--
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[Valles]

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This is the fruit of radicalism: Oversensitivity, overreaction, and overpunishment.

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Rephrased for increased accuracy.
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[Bob Schroeck]

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This is the fruit of radical feminism: Oversensitivity, overreaction, and overpunishment.

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More precisely, this is one of the results of feminism being hijacked and turned from a movement of empowerment to one which seems to espouse a neo-Victorian "women must be protected at all costs because they are weak and incapable of doing so themselves" attitude.
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[ECSNorway]

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More precisely, this is one of the results of feminism being hijacked and turned from a movement of empowerment to one which seems to espouse a neo-Victorian "women must be protected at all costs because they are weak and incapable of doing so themselves" attitude.

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All too unpleasantly true, Bob, and all done supposedly in the name of empowerment.
Worryingly, the exact same attitude has overtaken the racial rights movement as well. --
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[M Fnord]

Or it could have nothing to do with feminism or radicalism and be a case of a lawsuit-shy school administrator acting rashly in the age of "zero tolerance" education.
But that's just crazy talk.---
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[hmelton]

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I saw the first post in this thread and went to the website to read the article, then read that to my family.
Still didn't come up with anything to say.
All the comments posted so far make sense as to the flawed reasoning probably used to suspend preschooler, but it still doesn't address the fundamental fact that the principle, teachers and teacher's aids must have a very poor understanding of the children they teach.
Finally had this thought and decided to say this.
Vouchers Vouchers! VOUCHERS! VOUCHER! VOUCHERS!
If not for every parent then for the parents who's child has been suspended.
It might be the child with a problem or it might be something about the school, but a Voucher will at least let the parents get a second or third opinion and maybe give the child a second chance.
We are given the advice to always get a second medical opinion before a surgery, how much more important is it for the future of your child?

howard melton
God bless

[ECSNorway]

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Or it could have nothing to do with feminism or radicalism and be a case of a lawsuit-shy school administrator acting rashly in the age of "zero tolerance" education.
But that's just crazy talk.

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That could well be part of what happened in this particular case, but the symptoms that lead to the overreaction could not have been created without the circumstances Bob and I noted.
If the radical feminist movement hadn't pushed so hard to stamp out anything that even looked like harassment when seen through a funhouse mirror, there wouldn't be so many lawsuits about it for administrators like this one to be scared of.--
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[Jinx999]

This "teacher" apparantly interprets affection by a four year old in a sexual manner.
Someone like that should really NOT be allowed to work with children.

[Bob Schroeck]

Ooh, very good point.
And what about the admin(s) who tacitly agreed with her interpretation?
-- Bob
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[ECSNorway]

Now that's a point I hadn't considered, yeah.
Good grief.--
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[Fidoohki]

this is just...insane. Totally insane.