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I applaud this action actually Women have demanded equal rights-
Why should this be any different??
Just like when a middle aged male teacher has sex w/ a 16 year old girl-
He automatically goes to jail.
Where's the outrage when a female teacher does the same.....?
Women need to have the same repercussions.
Back when I was in jr. high I couldn't get away from the boys who
either pinched me on the rear, or grabbed me, or groped me (boobs) etc.
Sexual harassment starts early.....
Teachers should do their jobs & watch for this kind of behavior
You know, people keep saying this and citing this as why they support it but it's a rather poor example IMO.
Women have demanded equal rights because they actually did not have them for a while, and still don't in some aspects. Women could not vote, own property, even go to school for some time. It was legal until the 70s (90s for some states) for husbands to rape their wives - yes, rape them. Perfectly legal. Women and men still don't have equal pay in many professions. On this very topic, women are much more often victims of sexual assault than men. It is not even comparable. Men rape/assault (sexually and physically) women more often than women rape/assault men. No question, no debate. There is no equality when it comes to the risk women are at in society versus men. Does that mean that girls/women should get away with assaulting a guy? No, but don't act like there's equality in the first place on this topic.
I support this story/event because no one should ever touch anyone without their consent. To me, it's not an gender equality thing. There is no equality when it comes to assaults in the first place. Women will probably always be victimized more often than men; always have been, probably always will be. But no one should get away with it, regardless of who you are.
I can't help but find myself troubled that we're teaching children that virtually everything must be resolved via law enforcement, litigation, and the socially irredeemable shame of being branded with lifelong scarlet letters. If anyone cannot see what effect this blanket mindset has had upon society then I have no choice but to question their intelligence.
This obsession with calling the cops and incarceration over the smallest of things will just lead to bigger crimes and further disrespect for the law in the future. Whatever happened to handling these incidents without calling the heavily armed, boys-in-blue?
It's getting to the point where they'll be needed to hold our hands as we walk across the street.
I can't help but find myself troubled that we're teaching children that virtually everything must be resolved via law enforcement, litigation, and the socially irredeemable shame of being branded with lifelong scarlet letters. If anyone cannot see what effect this blanket mindset has had upon society then I have no choice but to question their intelligence.
Low Enforcement, courts and lawyers. These became the common ways Americans communicate and resolve disputes. It is everywhere: schools, working places, doctors - patients, neighbors, even inside families.
Laws were stretched to include everything, like sexual harassment. Once everyone knew what it meant. Not so anymore. Schools have great fear to discipline unruly, sometimes derranged students. Now they call LE on 8 year olds.
My neighbors 7 year old daughter told her mom that she has "rights" and freedom of speech, therefore she doesn't have to prepare her homework, neither pick up her plate after dinner. Otherwise, she will call 911 to report child abuse.
Yeah and apparently the way we teach people - kids and adults alike - is by arresting them, giving them a record, then making it impossible to shed that mistake for most of their lives. GREAT idea!!!
If you bothered to read the article, she will have to do community service and then the charges will be dismissed. She will not end up with a permanent record.
It's obvious that the boy's mother was fed up with the school's inability to stop the behavior. It said in the article that the girl didn't even know the boy, she just pinched him because it's what all of her friends do. So this was an ongoing thing at that school.
Personally, when it happened to my daughter, I didn't press charges. I talked to the teacher when the boys first started talking dirty to my daughter and then the boys' behavior changed to touching her in the cafeteria line and in the hallways when that particular teacher wasn't around. I talked to the administrators when I found out about the touching and they "talked to the boys" but it didn't stop, it got worse. My daughter said all the other girls seemed to like it when it happened and she felt like there was something wrong with her for not wanting the boys to touch her. She thought maybe it happened to her more than the other girls because she looked older than some of them, or maybe because they thought she was the kind of girl who deserved stuff like that. She was crying when she'd come home and she was having trouble focusing on school work. I ended up taking her out of that school, but not all parents have options like that and no one should have to switch schools just because they don't want to be groped.
Arrest is too far, but she should have been punished. That is harassment plain and simple.
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