Thread: Four-year-old suspended for hugging teacher's aid

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Four-year-old suspended for hugging teacher's aid

Bellmead, TX - 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 principal 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.


Last updated: 12/8/2006 12:57:16 PM

Our children are being taught that affection is WRONG! The #_)&$)(^)@^$ that want to destroy this country and our children want them to think that PORN is OK, same sex is OK, the list goes on and on! They do not want our kids to have ANY morals. Big Brother thinks our kids are better off if they raise them. I DON'T THINK SO!!!!!!!!!!!!

I would suggest that EVERYONE read the 40 goals of communism and see just how many flags you see!!!!!!!!!!!! Why in the hell are we cozing up to China, one of the BIGGEST communist countries EVER??? Why do we hear "OH" we won't deal with that country because it is communist? NO! Our representatives and corporate CEO's are in bed with the biggest communist country on the face of the planet!

This is totally ridiculous! 4 yrs old, geez! What kind of pc nonsense! I'm beyond words. Poor kid wants to hug a teacher! Oh my goodness, what's this world coming to?

Sorry I have to disagree with you guys. Blackwell may be in denial. You know he may be the my kid never does anything wrong type of parent. The dad may have something to do with this and it's possible the son is picking up on dad's behavior.

We used to have a neighbor who was a stay at home father and in my opinion a pervert. His behavior rubbed off on his child. His 3 year old son got caught undressing the 4 year old neighbor girl and ....well that all I'm going to say. Anyway it was more than playing Dr. This kid didn't go to school and besides the "mature" behavior he knew every cuss word in the book. The dad thought that this kind of behavior was normal and didn't think nothing of it. The happiest day in my life was when these people moved. There are parents who should not be parents. The oversexed media doesn't help anything either.

Well, Mayday, many of us do have our opinions often based from personal experience. Shoot, I recall when I was young my grandma would hug me and my face got smothered, well, you know where a 4 yr olds head would be. Yes, kids can pick up on things nowadays but I still believe chances are this boy was only showing affection. I recall talking to teachers about how sad they felt they could no longer hug the little ones. Students and teachers can't show affection anymore and yet tv shows everything!

Jean you're right. I used to be a teachers aide. One day I got pulled into the office by the principal and was accused of pulling on a childs arm. I swear I never did it but after that day I always thought twice before I touched a child while I was working.

Well there ya go. Lets see, when I was growing up there were NO cuss words on TV and CERTAINLY no sexually explicit things. Families were a mother, father and kids. Moms were just starting to have to go to work to help support the family. We had prayer in school and PUNISHMENT when you misbehaved (and that included in the home) When I did something wrong I was punished and it would NEVER occur to me to talk back to my parents. I was not abused, I tried to do right because I did not want to hurt my parents.

The food in school was GREAT! We had choices! Several selections of meats, vegetables, salads and deserts and it was not the packaged crap that they feed our kids now. It was fresh!

Now let me say this. We need to teach our kids to take responsibility for their actions! For every action there is a reaction. I am sick to death of the gimme mentality and the blaming of everyone else for their actions!

We need to make sure our kids can THINK and RATIONALIZE! They need to be able to think outside the box!

Now with this said, you seem to be falling into the trap. Yes, there is a lot of evil out there, but since none of us have the facts on this story, you are assuming that this child had sexual motives. I remember being able to hug a teacher without being accused of being some kind of pervert. It was purely because I had a bond with and respected that teacher.

I will leave you with this observation. Before the Federal government got their hooks into our schools, we had better education. NOW, the schools cannot teach because they are hooked on federal money. If they don't teach what the Feds want them to they will pull funding. I am sure there are many out there that will tell you the same.

There has to be more to this story. I do believe the child is innocent based on age, but the parents probably are not. This kid may have been exposed to sexual abuse. Did anyone ses the kid on Bill O'Reilly who was in trouble for calling his teacher sexy? Bill questioned him, and it was obvious that the word was being used loosely in his home. Again...not the kids fault, the parents lead by example.

This was a 4 year old that was in pre-school and probably was breast fed and if not it is a natural reaction for small children to want to feel bonded and close to their teacher, that closeness that he felt at home with his mother.The aide should be locked up for lewd thoughts.I had a grand-daughter that was breast fed for four years and she was always tuggin at my breast and had her head buried in my chest. She usually was rocked to sleep with her head buried in my chest as well as her fathers.
How dirty minded people have become.
Maybe he wanted to listen to her heart beat. It is the reason babies like the contact with the chest.

Originally Posted by dyehard39

This was a 4 year old that was in pre-school and probably was breast fed and if not it is a natural reaction for small children to want to feel bonded and close to their teacher, that closeness that he felt at home with his mother.The aide should be locked up for lewd thoughts.It is people like her you have to watch around your kids. Someone that feel a 4 year old can be sexualI had a grand-daughter that was breast fed for four years and she was always tuggin at my breast and had her head buried in my chest. She usually was rocked to sleep with her head buried in my chest as well as her fathers.
How dirty minded people have become.
Maybe he wanted to listen to her heart beat. It is the reason babies like the contact with the chest.