I think the wrong person was suspended
A 4 year old child was given an “in-school suspension” for what was termed according to this article on MSNBC.COM:
“inappropriate physical behavior interpreted as sexual contact and/or sexual harassment” after he hugged the woman and he “rubbed his face in the chest of (the) female employee” on Nov. 10.
Now, maybe it is just me, but if you view anything done by a 4 year old to be “interpreted as sexual contact” then you need to have your head examined, because you have some serious issues. Thus it should be the teachers aide that “interpreted” this contact as “sexual” that needs to be removed from the equation. Could it be considered inappropriate? Sure. A child resting or pressing their head against the breasts of a woman that is not their mother could be interpreted that way, but I think I would be hard pressed to find a well adjusted mother that would consider that to be the case. “Natural” or “Instinctual” are words that would more likely come to mind. But Sexual? I think that aide needs some serious time with a therapist, because there are issues there that have nothing to do with a 4 year old.
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Agreed! The aide has some sort of serious issue if she thinks a 4 yr. had inappropriate sexual conduct with her. Something is not right there.
I read that, and I think it is astounding. unbelievable. so sad that this is where our society is.
I think on a whole we are giving our children the wrong message when it comes to sex and the body. We aren’t saving the children by making the body taboo, and by reducing physical contact (hugs are important!). A neighbor child came in the house yesterday or the day before and the 18mth old was running around naked. The first grader was shocked. How will she act when she is an adult? She has obviously been taught that the body is never to be seen.
Perhaps she will act like these teachers who overreacted to a breastfeeding from a mother visiting her children’s school. This school, under the premise that they were “protecting the children” (from what?!), gave the mother a hard way to go. Are we really protecting the children when we teach them that administrators can bully adults around by threatening to have them banded from the school grounds. Is that educating the children on democracy and freedoms? Are we really protecting the children by teaching them that the breasts are taboo and that mothers should hide in an office or bathroom rather than feed their child when the child is hungry? For the agast, I challenge you to objectively look at a breastfeeding mother and find skin. Most breastfeeding looks like the mother is simply holding a sleeping child. If the nipple is exposed briefly it certainly is difficult to see and less obvious than some of the print advertisements we receive in the mail, commercials on primetime, televisions and movies, and the accident popups on our children’s computers. Let us not draw attention to something that is innocuous.
Nudity, particularly in a toddler, should not be shocking. I should not be afraid to take pictures of my naked children but consider the “child pornography” scandle that would pepper the news were a naked picture of one of my own children be discovered on my computer during an audit or something. So instead of preserving youthful innocence and cuteness, we hide our cameras.
“Natural” and “instinctual” are exactly the right words. That woman AND the staff that supported her claim need more life experience before going back to their jobs. This is just as natural and instinctive as a young toddler wiping their snotty nose on your shirt. Do they think about the fact that you’re wearing it and they’ve just treated you like an object? Of course not – their minds haven’t matured to the point of being able to reason. It is body language that demonstrates trust, and can easily be redirected to appropriate solutions.
[...] interpreted as sexual contact and/or sexual harassment” by giving his teacher a hug. OK, I said then it was stupid, and nothing has changed my mind. But what I didn’t see then was it seems that [...]