Student suspended for saying teacher was “cute”
posted at 9:30 am on December 3, 2011 by Jazz Shaw
Is this an example of rude, young people with too little respect for their elders or political correctness once again run off the rails? In Gastonia, North Carolina, a student was suspended from school for “sexual harassment” toward one of his teachers. If the story were to stop right there we might all agree with the verdict. We certainly don’t need young people acting that way toward authority figures. But this case involves a nine year old boy… and what is he accused of?
A Gastonia mother says her son was suspended for calling a teacher “cute.”
Chiquita Lockett said her 9-year-old son, Emanyea, spent the last two days at home.
Lockett said the principal of Brookside Elementary called her Wednesday to say the incident was a form of “sexual harassment.”
Emanyea told Eyewitness News a substitute teacher overheard him tell another student a teacher was cute.
Then he was suspended.
And this wasn’t even a situation where the boy was saying something to the teacher. He was talking to a friend and commented that the teacher was “cute.” So this was overheard by a substitute teacher and suddenly the kid is sent home.
It’s probably not a good habit to get into. While the word “cute” is not really offensive, it is a rather personal remark for a child to make about their elders. But this hardly seems to rise to the level of “sexual harassment.” We tend to overuse that term at times, though we shouldn’t shy away from it when it actually happens. But… “cute?” Really?
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Failed dodge my arse… there’s absolutely no point in debates between people if they don’t have common assertions they both take to true.
Let’s talk about by first assertion “He probably said something much worse than “she is cute”.” Are you truly saying that the negation of this is a supported assertion?
What are the probability that he only said “she is cute” and the school is lying about his inappropriate behaviors and suspended him?
What are the probability he only only said “she is cute” and continued to do something inappropriate worthy of suspension… yet they keep addressing his “cute” comment as being inappropriate?
The chances of either of those being true are small…
ninjapirate on December 3, 2011 at 11:52 AM
Largely because every incident that I have direct personal knowledge of, where students committed serious acts of harm or harassment upon either other students, or teachers, the victims were the ones expelled or fired. These are incidents across the country, not just a single district. And nobody talks about it because they don’t want to get expelled, or get fired, or get their people in trouble, and so they either shake the dust off their feet and leave, never to look back, or stay silent so they can keep their jobs.
The schools are run by cowards trying to prove themselves tough.
Voyager on December 3, 2011 at 11:56 AM
Sue the teacher, the principal, and the school board for $250 million.
You’ll get their attention fast.
J_Crater on December 3, 2011 at 12:03 PM
I taught chemistry in low socio-economic public school districts that contained so called ghetto trash. The issue I found was classroom control. The kids in my classes were well behaved because I insisted upon it. I had fights with the administration over being “too strict” I refused to back down on my classroom standards. Other teachers would make ghetto trash comments about some of the boys and girls in my classes and I would look them in the face and ask them what they had done to correct the lax environment in their classes that contributed to the behavior. The students in my classes were busy from the time they walked in the door until the dismissal bell. I didn’t give them an opportunity to fall back into poor behavior. While there are some you just can’t help many that others gave up on just needed the correct guidance to become decent students. As a result this lilly white teacher was asked by many black parents if I would raise their kids if something happened to them.
Yes, Ninja, there are problems with putting kids in classes they shouldn’t be in. I wish we had technical schools as well as the academic schools. Many kids who I dealt with would have been better served by attending technical training classes instead of sitting in academic style classes that didn’t serve them. These students generally were the ones that caused much of the problems. While my classroom management skills kept them from self destructing. Other teachers and many administrators just consigned them to the trash heap.
Blame that on a society that thinks every kid can be a doctor.
chemman on December 3, 2011 at 12:03 PM
This kid gets two days and the thirteen years old that slammed me in the face with a basketball only got one. We are living in strange times.
I’m not a teacher but I sure do envy you, I hope you your school enjoys tons of success.
Cindy Munford on December 3, 2011 at 12:05 PM
The location of the school and the ratings of the school( Brookside Elementary, 1950 Rhyne Carter Road, Gastonia, NC 28054) does not indicate a proximity to any obvious ghettos. The video of the parent and student did not support a description of a ghetto.
What proof do you have that supports a description of “ghetto trash”? Skin color?
Yoop on December 3, 2011 at 12:06 PM
As was reported in the story, the school is not able to tell their side of the story so you don’t even know what really happened. This “news” station is famous for sensational whistleblower reporting with very little follow up.
Parents today will justify just about anything when it comes to their kids and I don’t trust Chiquita to tell the whole truth about her angelic Emanyea.
mike_NC9 on December 3, 2011 at 12:07 PM
Parent: “Don’t give me that, you snotty-faced heap of parrot droppings!”
Teacher: “.. snotty-faced ??”
Parent: “Shut your festering gob, you twit! Your type makes me puke! You vacuous toffee-nosed malodorous pervert!!!”
Teacher: “Malodorous ? … Security! Security !!!!”
J_Crater on December 3, 2011 at 12:07 PM
My first grade teacher was smokin’, and I wasn’t afraid to say it. Crushes on teachers used to be a natural occurrence among kids. Now it’s seen as some horrific beginning to lurid sexual affairs. Goddamn, our society has gone down the crapper.
MadisonConservative on December 3, 2011 at 12:09 PM
Most states have laws stating that children under the age of 10 do cannot fully comprehend the difference between right and wrong, or the repercussions of their actions. In states where minors are allowed to be charged “as adults” the process is long, discretionary, and controversial.
This should not even be a story. This is why zero tolerance policies are lazy, ineffectual, and automatically assumes guilt of the accused. This should be a call to parents in these areas to get involved in their local school boards and change theses sorts of policies. Discretion really should be given back to the school on handling these things. Force them to take responsibility for destroying children’s lives by these sorts of claims instead of pointing to a little rule saying I cant do anything its school policy. I imagine if this were your child you would feel differently.
A small story when my second daughter was in high school she had a teacher accuse her of cheating(of having someone else do her homework for her because her handwriting didnt match the handwriting of some of her previous assignments. She was a good student. This affected everything about her life-when you are accused of a crime you are not guilty of by people whom you respect. I started going through all the papers she had written for the last 2 years, then I researched how handwriting changes over time and with “moods and emotions”. Then I went to the principal who listened. My daughter had the suspension reversed, taken off her record, and the teacher wrote an apology to her. It was her word against his, and in the end my daughters word held true. But it sucks that all of a sudden her teacher became a handwriting expert and that my daughter was given no opportunity to defend herself. Even when she told them she didnt have anyone else do her school work she was still guilty in their eyes. Until I had to prove her innocent. Maybe you dont see what I an trying to say by this story, maybe the child didnt say anything about the teacher at all, maybe the child said the teacher was cute, but it was not sexual harassment. Children at the age of 9 often say such things with no concept of right or wrong. I’d love to see the school rule book where it says “nothing shall be said to other students about the “attractiveness of teachers”.
canditaylor68 on December 3, 2011 at 12:18 PM
Just a little juxtapositioning…
Drained Brain on December 3, 2011 at 12:18 PM
I went through catholic schools from k thru 12 and I can remember a few nuns that I thought might be foxes and then as I got older and their dress codes were relaxed,, I found out I was correct. Do I need to go to confession????
retiredeagle on December 3, 2011 at 12:24 PM
This kid’s gonna have a lot of issues in his life.
angryed on December 3, 2011 at 12:28 PM
Why is it when a 19 year old “youth” commits a violent crime, he is too young to comprehend consequence and we have to hear all about how the teen-age brain is still forming.
But a nine year old who thinks his teacher is cute…CALL SVU!
Laura in Maryland on December 3, 2011 at 12:32 PM
Wow, they would have locked up, every boy in my ‘Middle School’ back in ’59 – ’60 every time that Miss Miller came in as a Substitute. Even the ‘good boys’ said things that we had no idea of how to actually do.
LegendHasIt on December 3, 2011 at 12:33 PM
Good point, and isn’t chiquita another word for cute in Spanish?
Laura in Maryland on December 3, 2011 at 12:34 PM
I spent yesterday at a professional development day on bullying.
The key points of the day were how to teach students that they are now going to face legal trouble if “crazy mom” decides to sue their child for sexual harassment due to just such circumstances. Children as young as 5 are being sued for sexual harassment and civil rights violations by parents of other student “victims” for such things as kissing on the playground, holding hands, and playing chase in a “sexually harassing” way.
Also included in these suits are school districts who have lost considerable money in these cases because they turned a “blind eye” to these things which can all, under current federal laws, be proven to be sexual harassment and civil rights violations.
Basically, any parent whose child says they have been sexually harassed or, for that matter, any teacher, can easily file and prove such claims. Millions of dollars are being paid out to victims of these “crimes” and schools are running scared. They absolutely have to react to any and all complaints or face the loss of a massive lawsuit.
Don’t even get me started on the lawsuits coming down the pike thanks to cell phones and other technology for the older kids.
These are NOT the schools we went to for sure. It is no longer enough for the school to have a stern talk with a student about proper respect to a teacher or another student. They have to follow procedure in every case, and no allowances can be made for circumstances, period.
We were told yesterday that taking care of ANY bullying, or even POSSIBLE bullying situation in the classroom is grounds for dismissal. Everything now has to go straight to the administration.
That said, I for one, do not believe a thing that mother says about her little angel and what he merely said about a teacher. I have heard too many parents excuse, deny, or discount what their child did.
Lily on December 3, 2011 at 12:37 PM
If he’d said she was ugly, he’d still be in class.
unclesmrgol on December 3, 2011 at 12:37 PM
…or a banana. But we can’t go there or there might be a three day suspension from Hot Air.
Yoop on December 3, 2011 at 12:38 PM
The word “cute” is overly personal? Oh, I get it. You were using sarcasm. Right?
aigle on December 3, 2011 at 12:41 PM
You’re just trying to be too cute!
Yoop on December 3, 2011 at 12:44 PM
Ah. Ms Lockette must now play the race card. Stalemate.
pat on December 3, 2011 at 12:46 PM
I don’t care how cute she is, she must be a screeching feminist harpy.
John the Libertarian on December 3, 2011 at 12:49 PM
I appreciate that point. Certainly at our school we have had some families leave for a variety of reasons and that’s sad; but it was never the result of lack of communication. And yes, in some cases it was the parents at fault.
That’s why I support total and complete school choice. Let the parents pick the school (public or private) and find a situation that best fits their needs and expectations. Let schools complete for students, knowing that their job security depends on putting out a great product. Let schools compete for the best teachers and let the best teachers earn as much as the market can bare.
Everyone wins, well, everyone except the incompetent.
PackerBronco on December 3, 2011 at 12:54 PM
Speaking of bananas:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RcAFnfhXUJs&feature=related
Laura in Maryland on December 3, 2011 at 12:57 PM
Perhaps one explanation for this is the teacher training criteria of the times. No longer are people obviously unsuited for the classroom eased or forced out as they once were.Once in, the unions make sure they stay.
jeanie on December 3, 2011 at 1:10 PM
Thank goodness all of my children have grown up and out of primary school and are all in college now, or are done. I’ve been in the Vice Principal’s office/Dean’s office many a time over the past 25 years or so to stand up for and vouch for my children (four kids and a school system of asinine ‘rules’ run amok from K-12)… Sometimes coming close to being permanently expelled myself. But I had prevailed on behalf of my children more than just a few times.
All you have to do as the parent is go the entire distance for your children no matter how many hoops and obstacles schools place before you in their cognizant efforts to deter you and keep you out of their loop. Even if you do not prevail, but your heart and mind are disciplined and carrying truth, your children will learn more about ‘right and wrong’ and ‘life skills’ than any masochistic school staff member and/or school district will ever ‘teach’ them.
Political correctness, persecution and prosecution of ‘thought crimes’ among little children who even by State Law standards are legally too young to even know the difference between right and wrong and therefor cannot be prosecuted for actual crimes, and the total and complete wussifying of American children rising to the level of nearly being psychotically pacifist, runs rampant at the whim of school districts and staff everywhere. Even what they are ‘permitted’ to bring to school for lunch in their lunch pails is regulated here in California where my children were educated.
The harder and more desperately American public schools grasp at creating a utopia where each and every child eventually grows into a lifelong perpetual victim school year after school year after school year, the deeper and more intense the rapid decline of America becomes. The correlation is inescapable. While our public schools are just one cog on the wheel of the insanity America is becoming they are, however, the very first cog that will have a death-grip on your children for their entire juvenile lives up until they legally become adults.
Home school your children if you have the ability and the wherewithal. I can only wish I had been able to. But I did pretty good, I think, deprogramming my four children as we went along while they did exceptionally well with their actual school work attaining 3.5 and better GPA’s by the time they graduated high school. They are all remarkable and successful individuals who think for themselves, possess an outstanding work ethic, know the actual truth of right and wrong, and they know how to survive, thrive and excel without being perpetual victims. I taught them that while their schools strived to teach them otherwise. It was exhausting.
FlatFoot on December 3, 2011 at 1:53 PM
There should be very few restrictions on true self-defense. If someone starts harassing or bullying someone else and gets kicked in the groin, the best response by authority is, “Good. Don’t pick on him next time.”
Otherwise you wind up giving the bullies protection.
My wife and her friends used to have some high school boys, much bigger than they were, who would steal the lunches from the girls. They put up with it for a while. Then one day, this boy stole her lunch and she slapped him. All this time the boys were stealing their lunches, the girls had never told the teachers. But when she slapped the boy, he went to a teacher.
Of course, she told the teacher why she had slapped him. Fortunately, the teacher looked at him and shamed him for being a tattletale over something he started, pointing out how much bigger he was than his victim.
Now, it would never happen that way. The student defending herself would be in every bit as much trouble as the bully.
And that’s a crying shame.
didymus on December 3, 2011 at 1:53 PM
The video at this link (Local tv station, Charlotte, WSOC-TV)
http://www.wsoctv.com/news/29910470/detail.html
BigAlSouth on December 3, 2011 at 2:05 PM
This actually makes sense when you consider it. Which is a far cry from saying it is right.
Bullying very often is a long succession of minor actions. Each one, by itself, may be no big deal. The cumulative effect is another thing entirely.
Effective self-defense, almost by definition, requires a much sharper response to the action, and looks a lot like an overreaction. A school that is more concerned with non-violence than with students’ right to not be harassed will notice the self-defense a lot more than what prompted it. If the bully comes from a less-than-ideal environment, you can almost count on the victim being the one who gets in the most trouble.
Which is a shame, because for all the modern fuss over the problem of bullying, the most effective response to bullying is to empower the victim to defend himself. And that’s the opposite from what we’re seeing.
didymus on December 3, 2011 at 2:08 PM
As a country boy redhead, I was never picked on twice by the same person. Maybe there was a reason for that or maybe it was my vigorous response.
Caststeel on December 3, 2011 at 2:09 PM
The teacher and principle and anyone else involved should be fired. They need to be kept away from children. They are monsters!
JellyToast on December 3, 2011 at 2:15 PM
Heh. “Punishment” was being kept in over recess. I read Compton’s Encyclopedia end to end. Got an education and honed reading skills better than intended. Silly teachers. BTW this was early 50′s.
Caststeel on December 3, 2011 at 2:15 PM
If the teacher had been properly attired in her burka, none of this would have happened.
realitycheck on December 3, 2011 at 2:18 PM
Maybe it was their fear of gingers. Pretty much everyone knows gingers don’t have souls, and that’s pretty darn scarey.
;P
FlatFoot on December 3, 2011 at 2:22 PM
The school system is being totally destroyed by Marxists and people who know absolutely nothing about children let alone human nature.
Sexual harassment has become trivialized to mean nothing.
Hey.. why don’t we just jail the kid. Make it a felony. Have his classmates drag him out to the playground (if they still have one) and beat him for offenses against humanity! He’s probably going to be a rapist anyway. Then they can hang him from the ceiling in the cafeteria by his arms, put a sign on him painted in red that says “Sexual Pervert!”
This is where we are headed. Mark my words. They have to gall to call a 9 year a sexual harasser for saying something that used to be considered a compliment… all while the freaking school probably teaches it’s good to masturbate and have gay sex and watch porn films!
This is freaking insanity!
JellyToast on December 3, 2011 at 2:24 PM
Never thought I’d say this as an American, but am very happy to be educating my kids outside the US–especially outside the US public school system. This past Tuesday, the parents went to a meeting with our director to see how our school compares globally (IB, PYP)and why they have chosen the style they teach. The countries compared against were the USA, Britain, China and India as main examples. They presented US statistics and US examples done by AMERICAN companies studying the system (how much medicating ADD, ADHD is done, for example). You know, the grade 3 students (when studying medieval era during book week) actually performed a mock execution where the “Queen” declared a woman (my friend’s daughter) guilty of heresy and she was “hung” with a noose (!!) in the classroom. It was absolutely fantastic, historically accurate and no one thought about it more than how hard it was at that time to speak your mind/give your opinions. Can you see that happening in a US school? hahahaha I think not. The best way to explain it is that it is the mid-80s here when people still had a sense of humor and you could explore all subjects, touch/hold hands in school without fear of a freaking lawsuit or suspension. My goodness, a school mate of mine in 6th grade told my teacher she resembled Dolly Parton! Think he’d be expelled today for that remark?
Renwaa on December 3, 2011 at 2:46 PM
I remember in Jr. High, back in the 70′s, we had this new hot English teacher.
She was God’s gift to every male in the school! The things we all said and dreamed about that English teacher … well… I loved English class.
I’m so glad I got to grow up in the 70′s. Students would neck in the hallways. Guys would smoke in the bathrooms and smoke would even roll out from under the doors of the teacher’s lounge. When there was a fist fight… if the teachers got into it they punished only the person that started it. People would bring guns to school for target practice and hunter’s safety. We had a shooting range in the school basement. Teachers spoke against communism for crying out loud! We actually had prayer every morning or a moment of silence! The food was even good! We had real cooks who actually cooked meals in the cafeteria! Kids got spanked! It was called getting wacked. In the middle of the day you would just hear this big “wack” and know somebody got it.
The kids of today have no idea what real school can be like. We used to cut classes and go to the river in the spring. If you got caught you got detention, but it was no big deal. But in all of that, I actually was taught real subjects and had great relationships with most of my teachers. There was a freedom in the schools back then. Discipline, yes, things were strict, but yet, there was so much more freedom and fun.
The problem here with this incident was that the teacher was of the opposite sex. If the kid had just been gay and had said it about a teacher of the same sex, no one would have cared. He’d probably gotten a nice little Hammer and Sickle sticker on the back of his hand.
JellyToast on December 3, 2011 at 2:48 PM
The only thing that truly matters in this case is…
…would Lorien hit it?
/
hillbillyjim on December 3, 2011 at 2:51 PM
Cute kid.
n0doz on December 3, 2011 at 2:56 PM
When my oldest was a freshman in high school there was an extremely attractive young man in his first year of teaching history. The notes the girls sent to him would have curled your hair.
Cindy Munford on December 3, 2011 at 2:59 PM
Like in any profession, there are remarkably good teachers, and there are teachers that are straight out of Idiocracy. One teacher of one of my kids insisted that my kid had trouble with English. He then told me that the word “in” was a verb. the teacher learned a few new words from me that day.
john1schn on December 3, 2011 at 3:11 PM
It could always be worse: http://youtu.be/g0XLKcMoXRE
manwithblackhat on December 3, 2011 at 3:23 PM
Liberalism tries to minimize or destroy distinctions between child & adult.
Liberalism also tries to minimize or destroy distinctions between:
God & man
man & animal
Good & evil
itsnotaboutme on December 3, 2011 at 4:34 PM
So what’s the district’s sex ed policy, again?
Whenever schools talk about sexual harassment — and define even the most inoffensive things as harassment — I’m always curious to see what sort of sexual proclivities they are/aren’t promoting in their curriculm.
englishqueen01 on December 3, 2011 at 4:41 PM
So much stupid in this story. A nine year old kid said his teacher was cute. Who cares? Well one side is acting like the kid is a disrespectful punk. The other side is acting like the kid is a serial sex offender. What the…
Excuse me, I don’t want to live on this planet any longer.
kvader on December 3, 2011 at 4:47 PM
You sir, are an idiot.
xblade on December 3, 2011 at 4:48 PM
Most parents would be proud if this was the most extreme remark made by a 9 yr. old
It’s not offensive, it’s a nine year old…
right2bright on December 3, 2011 at 4:53 PM
Now go to south central in LA and suspend the students who say “I’d like to bang her”…you wouldn’t have but 3 students in school…
right2bright on December 3, 2011 at 4:56 PM
People care because they are captive of the school system and thus when the schools screw up everyone has a stake in it.
That’s why we need complete and total school choice. Give the power back to the parents and this becomes a minor story about a school that screwed up and lost a family to a competing school.
PackerBronco on December 3, 2011 at 5:06 PM
I recall when my 8 yr old grandson after viewing a cute blond older girl at his brothers chorale concert exclaimed. “Mom,can we take her home?”
Leave it to the hypocritial “sex and arts” imbedded left to recoil at an acknowledgement of beauty.
Don L on December 3, 2011 at 5:10 PM
If the child didn’t address it to the teacher, how could it be sexual harrassment? If anyone is overheard making a politically incorrect statement and is punished for it, what are we teaching the children of America? Watch out for government snitches? Have we become that kind of country?
NNtrancer on December 3, 2011 at 5:20 PM
It used to be natural for an occasional kid to even have a crush on a teacher. For crying out loud, there were episodes about it on Leave it to Beaver clear to the Brady Bunch.
Liberals dirty everything. That’s the truth!
A small excerpt from a sermon by Charles Finney on Evil Thinking.
http://www.gospeltruth.net/1849OE/490228_evil_thinking.htm
Labeling this kid a sexual harasser for calling his teacher cute tells you more about the teachers than it does about the kid. Those teachers are pervs and should be fired and kept away from children!
JellyToast on December 3, 2011 at 5:28 PM
And one more quote from the above sermon I posted:
JellyToast on December 3, 2011 at 5:42 PM
If it was a male student calling a male teacher cute, nothing would have happened. Guaranteed.
The Notorious G.O.P on December 3, 2011 at 5:54 PM
Just damn.
Racist much?
Tomblvd on December 3, 2011 at 6:13 PM
The school administrators are the ones who should be suspended.
WannabeAnglican on December 3, 2011 at 7:35 PM
I hate to be overly skeptical… but I’ve seen too many stories lately where the real reason for an action, like suspension… is not in the headline or the story. Then later it comes out or I find it after an extended search…
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If saying she was cute is the real reason… shame on the school. If it’s more than that, they may be trying to minimize the negative effects for all concerned but being vague.
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In the second scenario… shame on mom for opening the can of worms. At nine… unless it was truly disgusting… no biggie on the boy. If it was outta the park nasty… he got what he deserved…
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Next.
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RalphyBoy on December 3, 2011 at 8:32 PM
R A C I S T
CW on December 3, 2011 at 10:04 PM
Maybe, the teacher that overheard him saying another teacher was cute was mad because he didn’t say SHE was cute. I admit “cute” is a strange word to be calling your adult teacher, but I know little boys who have called teachers “pretty”, and I never thought anything about it. At least it was complimentary.
theaddora on December 3, 2011 at 10:20 PM
I think any sane adult would prefer this 9 year old’s behavior to yours.
joewm315 on December 3, 2011 at 10:43 PM
Huh ? And you published this why?
Is HotAir turning into The Blaze?
ignatzk on December 3, 2011 at 10:58 PM
I’m not falling into the trap of commenting with insufficient information and looking dumb.
I need to see a naked picture of the teacher first, so I can deliver informed commentary.
Adjoran on December 3, 2011 at 11:14 PM
Not all red heads are gingers. Some of us are strawberry… and souless.
Laura in Maryland on December 4, 2011 at 1:10 AM
WOW! Someone has their blue balls in a knot. Groin shot a no-no in self-defense?! Best not tell those women’s self defense classes!
Phil-351 on December 4, 2011 at 2:40 AM
I had several female teachers who were cute. Part of growing up. Natural. Face would turn red.
So what?
Funny how our liberal dominated schools ain’t so liberal.
So liberal you can’t even be human.
Sherman1864 on December 4, 2011 at 5:38 AM
Can someone please explain to me why he was not shot on sight?
morganfrost on December 4, 2011 at 8:00 AM
If you are being choked you can die. Besides being deprived of air, his wind pipe could’ve been easily broken. The bones there are very thin. It’s called self defense.
This is the thing.. none of this would be punishable out in society. If you are getting choked on the sidewalk, there is no where to run because you can’t run. Your attacker has a hold of your throat! Hitting your attacker in the groin would be self defense. No jury in the world would convict you. Even in the schools, if a kid is choking a teacher, that teacher, odds are, will not be fired or disciplined for groining his attacker! The teachers stick together.
What is happening here is that the government school system is teaching children to become sheep! To not fight back and to not stand up for your rights unless you are gay, want to cross dress or protest capitalism! The same schools who would discipline a kid for defending himself or calling a teacher cute (if the teacher is not of the same sex) is the same system that would take those kids out to a Union protest! That same system has no problems having a former domestic terrorist, Bill Ayers, have input on it’s curriculum! Or having a safe school Czar who is homosexual and has proudly admitted to not turning in a boy who had gay sex with an adult!
JellyToast on December 4, 2011 at 8:47 AM
And then you have this from the OTHER perspective.
http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/principal-sharron-smalls-jane-addams-high-school-bronx-sexy-facebook-picture-article-1.986134
Yoop on December 4, 2011 at 8:56 AM
All the trash talk on TV and in movies and this kid called out and sat down for cute? If he would have called her x@#$!%&^–that’s OK?
Herb on December 4, 2011 at 9:37 AM
That’s quite a leap. But, I guess ‘ninjas’ are capable of the most absurd leaps, aren’t they?
How did you manage to get from “she’s cute.” (reportedly) to “ghetto trash”? I’d really be interested to see the logical progression which brought you there.
Or do you live in such a cloistered, protected little world that words like ‘cute’ are pornographic?
You need to get out more.
Solaratov on December 4, 2011 at 11:23 AM
If I were still in school and knew that I would be suspended for such an inane comment, I’d make certain my suspension would be worth it. I mean, why not? What a ridiculous thing to do to a child.
madmonkphotog on December 4, 2011 at 12:34 PM
Where are we going and why are we in this handbasket?
RedNewEnglander on December 4, 2011 at 2:43 PM
I remember when I was in my last quarter at Miami University taking a Calculus course to finish out some kind of requirement and a grad assistant named Ms. Botkins taught it and she never wore a bra. Now that was a cute teacher.
AcidReflux on December 4, 2011 at 9:09 PM
They had an opportunity to counsel the child not to use terms like “cute” when speaking of their elders, then drop it at that. No, they had to use a nine pound hammer when a velvet glove would do. Stupid.
Extrafishy on December 5, 2011 at 6:54 AM
Jazz is a victim of repeated PC being driven down his neck. He now swallows without though or complaint. His opening statement is wrong at its core.
“Is this an example of rude, young people with too little respect for their elders or political correctness once again run off the rails? ”
It is neither. It is a kid saying what he thinks about another person. A kid…. Like one poster said in his day (and mine) we’d all be suspended for thinking a teacher was “cute” and saying so! I had a HUGE crush on my first grade and third grade teachers. In high school I took typing so I could be in a teacher’s class- she was beautiful. At sixteen, anyone over twenty-eight was a mature woman. Sadly, my plans went awry and I was put in another class, run by an sixty-something teacher who had this crazy idea I gave a hoot about learning to type!
The point is this. The argument is lost once we ALLOW the agenda setters to set the beginning point of the argument. Whether they do it by law suit, media coverage, bureaucratic fiat, it is a lost cause when we submit- as JS did.
The kid is a kid making an obvious point. HE doesn’t need micromanaged social behavior instruction, the adults in the room need to grow up and quit being such sensitive whiners.
We don’t get a grip on this, all is lost- period. http://www.truthandcommonsense.com
archer52 on December 5, 2011 at 8:44 AM
I’ll bet that there would have been no punishment if either the boy or the teacher (or both) were gay.
The schools are run by mindless monkeys and lunatics. They are teaching children that adults (or at least teachers) are idiots.
landlines on December 5, 2011 at 8:06 PM
Well, living here in NC, we got an update on this today in the news. The school’s position is that the kid did not simply call the teacher “cute,” he committed the completely egreious sin of calling her “fine.”
So all the speculation can stop – we now know what this future felon actually said.
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PJ Emeritus on December 6, 2011 at 12:06 PM
Looks like the article was right all along. The kid (thug?) did nothing more than call the teacher cute. The principal has resigned for not being allowed to apologize:
http://charlotte.cbslocal.com/2011/12/07/north-carolina-principal-resigns-for-suspending-student-who-called-teacher-cute/
Ninjas hardest hit…..
Tomblvd on December 7, 2011 at 11:15 AM
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