Six Year Old Suspended

In this day and age one can't help but wonder what this six year old did to get booted out of school.  It's a crazy world we live in and well, you just never know what a little kid is capable of these days.  

The six year old in question apparently "sexually harrassed" a classmate.....by kissing her on the cheek.   

Seriously?  The adults running the schools in this country need to come down off the ledge and get a grip on reality.  

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2013/12/11/colorado-school-district-flooded-with-calls-after-6-year-old-suspension-over/?intcmp=latestnews

The principal at the Colorado school where a 6-year-old was suspended Monday for planting a kiss on a classmate's cheek said the allegations on the student's record will be changed from "sexual harassment" to "misconduct."

Tammy DeWolfe, the principal at the Lincoln School of Science and Technology in Canon City, said the school has been working with Hunter Yelton's family to resolve the issue stemming from the incident.

Yelton was initially accused of sexual harassment that Canon City school officials wanted on his school record. A School District RE-1 official said the repeat offenses meet the school policy definition of sexual harassment and they hope the tough standards will force the boy to change his behavior.

"They sent me to the office, fair and square. I did something wrong and I feel sorry," Yelton, told KRDO-TV. The school’s voicemail box is full and they have not returned calls.

Yelton's mother, Jennifer Saunders, told the station, "I'm going to stand up and fight for him because that's not the case, that's not what happened at all."

The boy's mother said her son was suspended once before for kissing the girl and had disciplinary problems, but the girl did not object to being kissed. She told the station that the two children like each other. The girl, however, told Fox News she just wanted Yelton to "knock it off."

In the meantime, the Cannon City School District has been inundated with phone calls in defense of the boy. A woman who answered the phone at district office said the office is "very busy," dealing with some callers who are being hateful. The woman did not provide her name.

The Colorado Department of Education said it does not have jurisdiction in local control issues and will not comment on the issue. Local elected school boards and administrators set their own rules, it said.

Middle School Lockdown for Guns

I can't help but notice the timing of this student bringing a gun to school as we come up on the anniversary of the Connecticut tragedy from last December.

http://www.examiner.com/article/lake-zurich-middle-school-south-on-lockdown-after-weapon-incident

After a student allegedly brought weapons to Lake Zurich’s Middle School South in the northwest of Chicago suburban town of Lake Zurich, Illinois on Tuesday, the school was put on a “code red” hard lockdown, according to WGN-News on Tuesday. Besides the Lake Zurich’s Middle School South being put on lockdown, the Isaac Fox Elementary School which is located nearby was put on lockdown as well.

Students’ parents received a call from the Lake Zurich School District office asserting that the student who had brought the weapons to school had been apprehended. They were also told that the weapons had not been used.

The school’s web site says that the situation is “All Clear” and that the lockdown at both schools has been lifted. It also says that the students at South Middle School are resuming normal classroom activities. Additionally, all after-school activities have been cancelled for Tuesday.

Lake Zurich is located approximately 37 miles from downtown Chicago, located in the southwestern portion of Lake County.

Boys Raping Boys

Iit's all the rage now in American high schools....


http://dailycaller.com/2013/09/01/this-week-in-anal-hazing-in-american-high-schools/

As The Daily Caller reported in June, anal hazing has apparently become some kind of bizarre ritual in American high schools. In the past year, there have been more than a dozen hazing incidents around the country involving at least 40 high school boys who have been sodomized by other boys using foreign objects or their fingers.  This week brought two fresh stories which follow the primary pattern: older male high school athletes decided it would be a good idea to sexually assault younger male high school athletes.

In the Boston area, police arrested three members of the boys junior varsity soccer team at Somerville High School for allegedly assaulting freshmen team members at a sports camp in over the summer, reports The Boston  Globe. The team had gone to a place called Camp Lenox in southwestern Massachusetts for team-building purposes in preparation for the upcoming fall season.  All three students who were arrested are juniors. One, Galileo Mondol, is 17 years old. The other two are 16 and remain unidentified.  The trio allegedly went into a freshman cabin at the camp and sexually assaulted three students. 

“The incident goes far beyond hazing. This is rape,” Joseph A. Curtatone, the mayor of Somerville, told The Globe. “All of us, frankly, are horrified at these allegations,” added school district superintendent Tony Pierantozzi.  Head boys soccer coach George Scarpelli admitted that the situation is a difficult one.  “I have good boys and they’re standing very strong together,” he said.

There were 165 student-athletes at the camp including boys soccer players, girls soccer players and football players. There were 19 adult supervisors. Mondol, who will be tried as an adult, faces a raft of charges including aggravated rape of a child under the age of 16, indecent assault and battery, and witness intimidation. The two unnamed 16-year-olds face comparable juvenile charges.  The 17-year-old soccer player’s attorney proclaimed denied the criminal charges.  “My client emphatically maintains his innocence,” said William Korman, Mondol’s lawyer. “We are pleading not guilty Tuesday because he is not guilty.”

Meanwhile, in the furthest exurbs of Chicago, five members of the football and basketball teams at Plano High School face several criminal charges after months of alleged anal hazing.  Over a period of eight months, the five Plano players allegedly assaulted three teammates in a locker room at the high school, reports ABC 7 Chicago.

“They were accosted by members of the sports team, they were held down and were sexually assaulted,” Eric Weis, Kendall County State’s Attorney, told the station.  The assaults involved digital penetration, according to The Beacon-News. One of the five jocks sexually assaulted the victims. The other four held them down. At least sometimes, the crimes occurred on the victims’ birthdays.  Prosecutors suspect that other victims are out there who have not stepped forward.  The five football players face charges including criminal sexual assault, aggravated battery and unlawful restraint. All of them are under 17, and will be charged as juveniles. All five of the students charged with crimes no longer attend Plano High.

Gender Identity Bill

http://townhall.com/columnists/debrajsaunders/2013/07/21/gender-identity-bill-carries-risk-of-personal-pain-n1645075?utm_source=thdaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl


Democratic California Assemblyman Tom Ammiano has written a bill that would require public schools in his state to allow students to choose which bathrooms, locker rooms and sports teams match their gender identity. Both the Assembly and state Senate have passed Assembly Bill 1266. It now sits on the desk of Gov. Jerry Brown. If the governor allows the bill to become law, then public school administrators won't be able to assign transgender third-graders to use a separate bathroom or play on the team of their biological gender -- even if their motive is to protect a vulnerable child.

"Separate but equal," Ammiano's senior legislative assistant, Wendy Hill, told me, already is against the law. Indeed, the new bill wouldn't really change anything; it would "just (clarify) what current law already states."

Ammiano never has been known for his tolerance toward dissenting opinions. When the late KGO talk show host Pete Wilson voiced his discomfort about a child born to be raised by a gay San Francisco supervisor and a lesbian partner in 2006, Ammiano, then a San Francisco supervisor, demanded that Wilson resign. (Wilson had said, "A child is not an experiment." Ammiano accused Wilson of homophobia and "trying to dehumanize a week-old baby.")

So it's no surprise that he'd be pushing for a bill that would sanctify the sensitivity of transgender children while steamrolling the feelings of girls who might not want biological boys in their locker rooms or on their soccer teams. (No worries, Hill told me. Those girls could ask for special accommodations if they didn't want to share facilities with a biologically male girl.)

AB 1266 also would ride roughshod over parental sensibilities and educator discretion, as some parents don't think that enrolling their kids in kindergarten must entail a talk about transgender equality.  AB 1266 would direct schools to ignore biology and let children decide how they want to self-identify. No student, including elementary-school pupils, would need his or her parents' permission to change gender identity.

Some critics have suggested that boys might use the law as a means to wend their way into the girls' locker room or to a starring position in sports. I don't think so.  But I do wonder whether it is in children's interest to let kindergartners and first-graders decide that they really aren't male or female and that they're going to switch gender identity. Is it truly responsible to encourage kids to cross the gender Rubicon before they've learned how to read?  Hill informed me that children are declaring themselves as transgender early on these days -- often before they enter kindergarten.

What if they change their minds? Have there been studies that explore whether children who change gender identity are glad as adults that they did so? "I don't know that there's been a study of people changing their minds," she answered.  And: "Transgender is not a decision that allows you to change your mind or not change your mind."  That sounds like politics, not science. Maybe she's right. Maybe all the boys and girls who think they're girls and boys are right; maybe by declaring themselves early, they will avoid unnecessary heartache.

Maybe this is the golden age of transsexualism.  Or maybe Sacramento is rushing to pass legislation that pushes confused children to make life-changing decisions that they're not mature enough to make -- and cannot erase.  Maybe it is a big mistake, as Republican state Sen. Jean Fuller warned, to pass a bill that takes away from educators' "appropriate discretion" to make decisions that protect young children and teenagers. "High-school students are not known for their maturity," Fuller noted.  No doubt Ammiano wrote this bill to protect transgender children from the torment of growing up feeling freakish and unwelcome. He apparently believes that it is wrong for kids to agonize privately about their sexuality, so he's pushing a bill that would make a student's gender issues very public, possibly before some students truly know who they are.

Sadly, supporters seem to believe that if the law requires that transgender students have access to the locker rooms and sports teams of their choosing, all their problems will melt away. An Equality California press release announces that the bill's passage would "ensure the success and well-being of transgender students." It never seems to occur to Ammiano and company that for some children, this bill could open the door to a world of pain.

And Now Junior Will Lead Us In A Prayer to Satan....

Satanists Rally Against the Real Evil:  Lack of Prayer in Schools


http://now.msn.com/satanists-will-rally-in-florida-to-support-school-prayer-bill


Apparently Satanists are now going for more of a civic-duty vibe than an exciting, evil one. A group of Florida Satanists are planning to rally to celebrate Governor Rick Scott's signing of Senate Bill 98. The bill lets "district school boards adopt resolutions that allow prayers by students at school events" — and apparently it doesn't matter whether you're praying to God or, you know, someone else. A spokesman for The Satanic Temple organization said that the January 25 rally will show that Satanists have a sense of civic responsibility, just like Christians and Jews. "We feel it's time for Satanists to come out and say exactly who we are," said Lucien Graves.

Transgender first-grader wins civil rights suit after girls’ bathroom ban

http://dailycaller.com/2013/06/24/transgender-first-grader-wins-civil-rights-suit-after-girls-bathroom-ban/


The Colorado Civil Rights Division has decided in favor of the transgender first-grader who had been prohibited from using the girls’ bathroom at a public elementary school.
The Transgender Legal Defense and Education Fund, which filed the complaint on behalf of the first-grader’s family, announced the ruling on Sunday, reports Denver FOX affiliate KDVR.

The student, Coy Mathis, was born biologically male but wears girls’ clothes all the time. The six-year-old had also been using the girls’ bathroom at Eagleside Elementary in Fountain, Colorado near Colorado Springs.

In December, the school banned Coy from using the girls’ bathroom. http://dailycaller.com/2013/02/28/school-district-bans-transgender-first-grader-from-using-girls-bathroom/

The new policy was for Coy to use either the boys’ bathroom, a teacher’s lounge bathroom or the nurse’s bathroom. At the time, the Mathis family responded by taking Coy out of school .  The ruling by the state’s civil rights division, which enforces anti-discrimination laws, decreed that Mathis was a victim of illegal discrimination.

Division director Steven Chavez pronounced that a policy directing Coy to “disregard her identity while performing one of the most essential human functions constitutes severe and pervasive treatment, and creates an environment that is objectively and subjectively hostile, intimidating or offensive,” according to The New York Times.

The decision mentioned the latest research on transgender issues, adds KDVR. “Compartmentalizing a child as a boy or a girl solely based on their visible anatomy,” Chavez wrote, “is a simplistic approach to a difficult and complex issue.”

“The parents of Coy Mathis have filed a charge of discrimination with the Colorado division of Civil Rights,” part of the statement said. “They have chosen to publicize this matter by appearing on a nationally televised show with their child, sharing their point of view with national and local media, and holding a public press conference to announce the filing of the charge. The District firmly believes it has acted reasonably and fairly with respect to this issue.”  (The nationally televised show was “Katie,” a syndicated talk show hosted by journalist Katie Couric.)  School officials are concerned about what will happen to the child later on — in middle school and high school — when gender and sexuality will be more important to all the other students, KOAA says.

At the press conference, Kathryn Mathis told reporters that Coy began to identify as a girl “as soon as she could express herself.” She described Coy as restless and generally miserable before the parents decided to permit the transgender child to dress like a girl and act like a girl.

“We couldn’t get her to leave the house, go the playground, play with friends,” Mathis said, according to KMGH. “She would break down crying. She was so deeply unhappy and a three-year-old or four-year-old shouldn’t be that unhappy and that was when we sought professional help.”

Coy Mathis is a triplet (along with a brother, Max, and a sister, Lilly). There are two other siblings as well, one older and one younger. Since the school district changed its policy, the family has taken Mathis out of school. The Coy Mathis saga is the first-ever legal challenge under Colorado’s Anti-Discrimination Act of a transgender person’s ability to use the bathroom assigned to a particular gender.

5-Year Old Suspended

How can people trust their children to schools like this?  I understand taking guns seriously, but reprimanding kids for using their fingers as guns?  Overreact much??  These people are actually in charge of children every day.  Grilling a 5 year old (FIVE YEARS OLD) for two hours before contacting his parents - lecturing him so long that he pees his pants?  Questioning his first grade sister??

And I'm the crazy one for keeping my kids at home to educate them. 



http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/cowboy-style-cap-gun-gets-5-year-old-ousted-from-school-in-calvert-county/2013/05/30/a3a8a178-c93c-11e2-9245-773c0123c027_story.html

By Donna St. George,   

May 31, 2013 02:34 AM EDT

The Washington Post

         

A kindergartner who brought a cowboy-style cap gun onto his Calvert County school bus was suspended for 10 days after showing a friend the orange-tipped toy, which he had tucked inside his backpack on his way to school, according to his family and a lawyer.

The child was questioned for more than two hours before his mother was called, she said, adding that he uncharacteristically wet his pants during the episode. The boy is 5 — “all bugs and frogs and cowboys,” his mother said.

“I have no problem that he had a consequence to his behavior,” said the mother, who asked that her name be withheld to protect her son’s privacy.  “What I have a problem with is the severity,” she said, and the way it was handled.  The family’s attorney appealed the suspension late Thursday, asking that the action be reversed and the child’s record be expunged.  If the punishment stands, it would become part of the boy’s permanent school record and keep him out of classes the rest of the school year, the family said. He would miss his end-of-year kindergarten program at Dowell Elementary School in Lusby.  The issue will be examined at a disciplinary conference Friday.

Kim Roof, executive director of administration for Calvert schools, said she could not comment on the case but pointed out that such incidents are fully reviewed at disciplinary conferences to determine the most appropriate outcome. The case comes at a time of heightened sensitivity about guns in schools across the country. Locally, children in first and second grade have been disciplined for pointing their fingers like guns and for chewing a Pop-Tart-like pastry into the shape of a gun. In Pennsylvania, a 5-year-old was suspended for talking about shooting a Hello Kitty bubble gun that blows soap bubbles.

In Calvert County, the trouble began Wednesday at 8:30 a.m. on a 10-minute bus ride to school.  According to the family, the boy’s friend had brought a water gun on the bus a day earlier. On Wednesday, unbeknown to his parents, the boy stowed his cap gun — from Frontier Town near Ocean City — inside his backpack as he left for school.
He told his mother after the incident that he had “really, really” wanted to show his friend.
The mother was called by the principal at 10:50 a.m. and was told that her son had the cap gun and pretended to shoot someone on the bus. She said that both the kindergartner and his first-grade sister, sitting nearby on the bus, disputed that account.  The mother said the principal told her that if the cap gun had been loaded with caps, it would have been deemed an explosive and police would have been called in.  The child’s disciplinary referral said he was being suspended for possession of a look-alike gun.

The child’s mother is a high school teacher in Calvert who said she strongly supports the school system and loves the teachers at her son’s school. She and her husband, who coaches youth sports, are active community volunteers.

For the family, a major concern is the long period the 5-year-old was questioned without parental guidance or support. "His sister was questioned, too," she said.  “The school was quite obviously taking it very seriously, and he’s 5 years old,” she said. “Why were we not immediately contacted?”

The family’s attorney, Robin Ficker, said that the age of the child is important and that the incident could have been used as a teachable moment.  “Kids play cowboys and Indians,” he said. “They play cops and robbers. You’re talking about a little 5-year-old here.”

Principal Stands Up for Serial Bully

 http://thestir.cafemom.com/in_the_news/155488/serial_bully_banned_from_all?utm_medium=sm&utm_source=facebook&utm_content=thestir_fanpage

By Kiri Blakley

A judge has decided that one 14-year-old girl in Jacksonville, Florida is not fit for any of the schools in that county. Not because she's a genius. And not because she has disabilities. But because she's allegedly an inveterate bully. The eighth grader allegedly lured classmate Aria Jewett off school grounds and then attacked her while 30 students stood around watching. The fight was videotaped. Aria suffered a fractured skull. The attacker girl was arrested. Aria's parents asked for an injunction to keep the girl out of Aria's school but the judgment surprised even them. The judge declared that the girl was too much of a danger for her to be in any of the public schools in the entire county.

Said Florida Circuit Court Judge Henry Davis in his ruling:

This child is a threat to all of the children at any school. The injunction is a permanent injunction barring this child from returning to any public school in Duval County.

Seems like a common sense approach, but the school's superintendent actually disagrees . The superintendent, Nikolai Vitti, says:

I don't think we should use the bad decision that children make outside of school as an example or scapegoat to make a message.  (Never mind that this girl should be in jail for her actions.)

He reportedly went on to say that education is a constitutional right, and that even a girl who smashes another girl's head and videotapes it deserves one. The unnamed girl already has a lawyer and the lawyer is trying to return her to county public schools.  (Contrary to what this uneducated principal thinks, the US Constitution makes no mention of it's citizens having a "right" to a free public education.  And this man is in charge of students and educators?!)
 
This shows you just about everything that is wrong with schools (and parenting) these days. Students are living in fear of kids like this bullying girl, and yet what appears to be more important to the girl's parents and the school's superintendent is that she gets her education! Never mind that the education system had failed her so far. Perhaps it was teaching her math and science, but it certainly wasn't teaching her empathy or humanity. I think she needs a different school -- the school of Hard Knocks. (Sorry, but I disagree with the author of this article - it's not the school's job to teach these things; it's the parent's job.)

I don't mean like the hard knocks she gave Aria, that fractured her skull and could have killed her. I mean the school that says if you screw up, you pay for it. And if you screw up repeatedly -- as allegedly this girl had numerous videotaped beatings to her name -- then you pay royally. And that means maybe your parents -- who seem more concerned about hiring you a lawyer than teaching you how to behave -- have to move away or home school you. Sounds like instead of spending money on a lawyer, they could have bought their daughter a tutor and a lifetime supply of anger management classes. I wonder if Vitti would be fine sending a daughter of his into a classroom with this girl?  (Amen.)

Do you think this girl should be allowed back in schools?