Political correctness run amok
When I heard Dennis Prager talking about this story today, my blood pressure went through the roof!
"The two boys tore down the hall of Patton Middle School after lunch, swatting the bottoms of girls as they ran -- what some kids later said was a common form of greeting.
But bottom-slapping is against policy in McMinnville Public Schools. So a teacher's aide sent the gawky seventh-graders to the office, where the vice principal and a police officer stationed at the school soon interrogated them.
After hours of interviews with students the day of the February incident, the officer read the boys their Miranda rights and hauled them off in handcuffs to juvenile jail, where they spent the next five days." (emphasis mine)
The girls who were slapped also took part in the highly inappropriate "slap butt day" at their school. In total, 17 students were questioned and only these two were charged because they also admitted to "poking" a female student in the breast.
The Junior Logician is also 13 and also in Middle School. As an active parent, I have been in his school on many occasions and seen some rather inappropriate behavior in the other children. However, rather than reporting it, we talked about it, discussion what was appropriate and what was not.
The problem with this over-reaction by the school (and it was an over-reaction) two-fold. First, as the Oregonian reports.
"Researchers at the American Association of University Women seven years ago published a landmark study of middle school harassment and bullying, finding that eight of 10 students surveyed had experienced some form of unwanted sexual behavior at school, primarily verbal. But half also admitted harassing somebody themselves -- testament to the basic ambiguities of middle school. "
There is a certain back and forth that goes on in middle school. You have to watch it to be sure but this is a little over the top.
Then there are the mixed messages that we tell our middle school students. They learn sex education in middle school (note to self - I sense a good tie in to something Barak Obama said this week.....) and they are told that everyone does it so you had best have protection and then when the kids act on it, they are labeled sexual predators! Then there is the fact that several girls who took part in "slap butt day" were not prosecuted but the boys were!
These boys spent 5 days in jail and are faced with multiple felony counts for slapping fellow students. Meanwhile, in the Savage lands, the three boys threatened to blow up their middle school (the week after the Virginia Tech shootings) are facing no felony counts. One was expelled from the school and is not allowed back, the other two were suspended from the school for the rest of the year and had to take summer school to make up the work that they missed. Which school district do you think has a total lack of common sense?
"The two boys tore down the hall of Patton Middle School after lunch, swatting the bottoms of girls as they ran -- what some kids later said was a common form of greeting.
But bottom-slapping is against policy in McMinnville Public Schools. So a teacher's aide sent the gawky seventh-graders to the office, where the vice principal and a police officer stationed at the school soon interrogated them.
After hours of interviews with students the day of the February incident, the officer read the boys their Miranda rights and hauled them off in handcuffs to juvenile jail, where they spent the next five days." (emphasis mine)
The girls who were slapped also took part in the highly inappropriate "slap butt day" at their school. In total, 17 students were questioned and only these two were charged because they also admitted to "poking" a female student in the breast.
The Junior Logician is also 13 and also in Middle School. As an active parent, I have been in his school on many occasions and seen some rather inappropriate behavior in the other children. However, rather than reporting it, we talked about it, discussion what was appropriate and what was not.
The problem with this over-reaction by the school (and it was an over-reaction) two-fold. First, as the Oregonian reports.
"Researchers at the American Association of University Women seven years ago published a landmark study of middle school harassment and bullying, finding that eight of 10 students surveyed had experienced some form of unwanted sexual behavior at school, primarily verbal. But half also admitted harassing somebody themselves -- testament to the basic ambiguities of middle school. "
There is a certain back and forth that goes on in middle school. You have to watch it to be sure but this is a little over the top.
Then there are the mixed messages that we tell our middle school students. They learn sex education in middle school (note to self - I sense a good tie in to something Barak Obama said this week.....) and they are told that everyone does it so you had best have protection and then when the kids act on it, they are labeled sexual predators! Then there is the fact that several girls who took part in "slap butt day" were not prosecuted but the boys were!
These boys spent 5 days in jail and are faced with multiple felony counts for slapping fellow students. Meanwhile, in the Savage lands, the three boys threatened to blow up their middle school (the week after the Virginia Tech shootings) are facing no felony counts. One was expelled from the school and is not allowed back, the other two were suspended from the school for the rest of the year and had to take summer school to make up the work that they missed. Which school district do you think has a total lack of common sense?
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