From: "Rich Gauszka" 

Meethinks the teachers are a bit out of whack and need a reality check

http://www.kxxv.com/Global/story.asp?S=5785699

BELLMEAD-   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 different story.

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.

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."

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.

David Davis, the executive director of the Advocacy Center in Waco tends 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.

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.

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