Attack of the preschool perverts

[cwo_ghwebb]

Your weekly Steyn!

Is American public education a form of child abuse? The Washington Post's Brigid Schulte reported this month on a student named Randy Castro, who attends school in Woodbridge, Va. Last November at recess he slapped a classmate on her bottom. The teacher took him to the principal. School officials wrote up an incident report and then called the police.

Randy Castro is in the first grade. But, at the ripe old age of 6, he's been declared a sex offender by Potomac View Elementary School. He's guilty of sexual harassment, and the incident report will remain on his record for the rest of his school days – and maybe beyond.

So who does get a little breast and butt action in American schools these days? Obviously not your 4-year-old gropers and 6-year-old predators: The system's doing an admirable job of cracking down on those perverts.

No, if you want to get up close and personal with body parts you've got to be a "school official." The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals recently heard oral arguments in the case of Savana Redding. Back in 2003, Savana was an eighth grader at Safford Middle School in Safford, Ariz., when the vice principal, Kerry Wilson, "acting on a tip," discovered a fellow student to have a handful of ibuprofen tablets in her pocket. The other girl said she got them from Savana, who denied it. She had no tablets in her own pockets or in her backpack. Vice Principal Wilson, whose mind works in interesting ways, then decided that Savana might be hiding the ibuprofen in her cleavage or her crotch.

Michelle Obama called last week for Americans to pony up even more dough for their public school system. The United States already spends more per student than any other developed nation except Switzerland, and at least the Swiss have something to show for it. By any reasonable measure, at least a third of the cash dumped into American schools is entirely wasted. And, if we simply shipped every youngster to boarding school in the Alps instead, the kindergartners might have a sporting chance of making it to second grade before being designated as sexual abusers.



Mark Steyn: Attack of the preschool perverts

 

[Bann]

Your weekly Steyn!

Is American public education a form of child abuse? The Washington Post's Brigid Schulte reported this month on a student named Randy Castro, who attends school in Woodbridge, Va. Last November at recess he slapped a classmate on her bottom. The teacher took him to the principal. School officials wrote up an incident report and then called the police.

Randy Castro is in the first grade. But, at the ripe old age of 6, he's been declared a sex offender by Potomac View Elementary School. He's guilty of sexual harassment, and the incident report will remain on his record for the rest of his school days – and maybe beyond.

So who does get a little breast and butt action in American schools these days? Obviously not your 4-year-old gropers and 6-year-old predators: The system's doing an admirable job of cracking down on those perverts.

No, if you want to get up close and personal with body parts you've got to be a "school official." The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals recently heard oral arguments in the case of Savana Redding. Back in 2003, Savana was an eighth grader at Safford Middle School in Safford, Ariz., when the vice principal, Kerry Wilson, "acting on a tip," discovered a fellow student to have a handful of ibuprofen tablets in her pocket. The other girl said she got them from Savana, who denied it. She had no tablets in her own pockets or in her backpack. Vice Principal Wilson, whose mind works in interesting ways, then decided that Savana might be hiding the ibuprofen in her cleavage or her crotch.

Michelle Obama called last week for Americans to pony up even more dough for their public school system. The United States already spends more per student than any other developed nation except Switzerland, and at least the Swiss have something to show for it. By any reasonable measure, at least a third of the cash dumped into American schools is entirely wasted. And, if we simply shipped every youngster to boarding school in the Alps instead, the kindergartners might have a sporting chance of making it to second grade before being designated as sexual abusers.



Mark Steyn: Attack of the preschool perverts

I just read this article this morning! I swear - the lunatics are taking over the asylum!

 

[RadioPatrol]

Randy Castro is in the first grade. But, at the ripe old age of 6, he's been declared a sex offender by Potomac View Elementary School. He's guilty of sexual harassment, and the incident report will remain on his record for the rest of his school days – and maybe beyond.


[/I] She had no tablets in her own pockets or in her backpack. Vice Principal Wilson, whose mind works in interesting ways, then decided that Savana might be hiding the ibuprofen in her cleavage or her crotch.

I had not heard about the 1st grade sex offender, but I saw an article about the strip search of the 8th grader ......

Strip Searches are for people going off to prison ... not 8th graders

 

[cwo_ghwebb]

The teachers union has gotten out of control. When I went to high school, our graduating class was 528. We had a principal, one vice-principal, a school nurse and two guidance counselors.

When I last taught in the school system eight years ago, we had a principal, four vice-principals, school nurse, parole officer, and an ungodly amount of guidance counselors. We're getting more auxiliary folks for our tax dollars but fewer teachers.

School administrations won't support their staff when discipline is needed.

It's as bad as if the warden supported the prisoners instead of the guards.

 

[ocean733]

OMG, that's horrible. I had a 5 year old groping my boobs yesterday. I know that he had no idea what he was doing!!

 

[Bann]

The teachers union has gotten out of control. When I went to high school, our graduating class was 528. We had a principal, one vice-principal, a school nurse and two guidance counselors.

When I last taught in the school system eight years ago, we had a principal, four vice-principals, school nurse, parole officer, and an ungodly amount of guidance counselors. We're getting more auxiliary folks for our tax dollars but fewer teachers.

School administrations won't support their staff when discipline is needed.

It's as bad as if the warden supported the prisoners instead of the guards.

Just like that teacher who was recently beat up in Baltimore. The representative from the union was on Fox last night and she said it's not the first episode at that school - not to mention not the first one in Baltimore. She said right out that the school systems are allowing these students back into the schools. That's ridiculous and a dangerous situation. Again - the students are running the show. It's crazy & this is going on all over the place.

Here in Calvert they don't even have the "alternative school" anymore. They have an "alternative class" assigned to one designated middle school & one designated high school. (I think it's only one, I may be wrong). Those kids who are in that class are still in the general population and they should not be. AND they ride the same busses as the general population.

Many people may hate Bill O'Reilly, but in his book Culture Warrior - he talks about "The Battle for the Kids". [I double checked just now - it's Chapter 9.] There is a quote at the beginning of the chapter "Control the children and you control the future".

I think he is dead on right about what is going on in this country with regard to the kids:

Excerpts from page 123:
"For the secular-progressive movement to achieve its goals in America, it must undermine traditional parental authority and convince children there's a brave new world out there that does not include being raised in the traditional way. The S-P goal is to diminish parental authority that, in the past, had been unquestioned.

This is a strategy - mentally separate children from their parents - that has been practiced by totalitarian goverments all throughout history.
<snip>
That's the blueprint. If you want to change a country's culture and traditions, children must first abandon them and embrace a new vision.
<snip>
Another factor in the S-P vision for our kids is the development of sexual awareness at an early age. This strategy encourages children to mimic adult behavior and forge relationships outside the home. Thus, children separate themselves from parental influence earlier in life and are less likely to embrace the old-school values of their parents."



I think this is exactly what is going on in this country right now - and it's been getting worse over the last 15 or so years. We are now (because it did not happen overnight!) reaping what we (as a country) have sown in those years.

 

[RadioPatrol]

Excerpts from page 123:
"For the secular-progressive movement to achieve its goals in America, it must undermine traditional parental authority and convince children there's a brave new world out there that does not include being raised in the traditional way. The S-P goal is to diminish parental authority that, in the past, had been unquestioned.

This is a strategy - mentally separate children from their parents - that has been practiced by totalitarian goverments all throughout history.
<snip>
That's the blueprint. If you want to change a country's culture and traditions, children must first abandon them and embrace a new vision.
<snip>
Another factor in the S-P vision for our kids is the development of sexual awareness at an early age. This strategy encourages children to mimic adult behavior and forge relationships outside the home. Thus, children separate themselves from parental influence earlier in life and are less likely to embrace the old-school values of their parents."



I think this is exactly what is going on in this country right now - and it's been getting worse over the last 15 or so years. We are now (because it did not happen overnight!) reaping what we (as a country) have sown in those years.

Yeah sounds about right .........

 

[ImnoMensa]

America spends more on public education than any other nation in the Universe and what are we getting out of it? Every politician running for office promises more money for schools. Why?

About half the kids arent learning and they are holding the other half back

Here are three reasons they arent learning, Discipline, Discipline and Discipline.

They dont get it from parents, they dont get it from teachers or principles and they complain and scream bloody murder should anyone try to apply it.
You cannot learn if you dont want to. Take those who dont wish to learn and put them out of the schools. Stop wasting funds, wasting other students time, wasting the teachers time and beating your head against a wall of ignorance.

Half of todays High School Diploma's arent worth the paper they are written on and the students getting them cant read them anyway.

 

[RadioPatrol]

By the way, is that the first recorded use in the history of the English language of the phrase "accused a 4-year-old of sexual harassment"? Well, it won't be the last: In the state of Maryland last year, 16 kindergartners were suspended for sexual harassment, as were three preschoolers.

School officials declined to comment to the Washington Post on Master Castro's case on the grounds of student confidentiality. However, they did say that the decision to call the cops was "the result of a misunderstanding." And it's not like he was Tasered or anything.

 

[High EGT]

Thats right officer, I have the little pervert here in my office handcuffed to a chair.

 

[toppick08]

OMG, that's horrible. I had a 5 year old groping my boobs yesterday. I know that he had no idea what he was doing!!

WTF ?

 

[chernmax]

Off to jail with these three...