6-Year-Old Faces Expulsion For Touching Classmate's Rear
Posted: 9:51 pm CST December 1, 2005Updated: 6:56 am CST December 2, 2005
COLERAIN TOWNSHIP, Ohio -- A 6-year-old boy was facing expulsion for touching a classmate's rear end, and his mother said she thinks the school district is going too far, WLWT-TV in Cincinnati reported.Yolanda Kirk said she's not disputing Northwest Local School District's right to discipline students."Don't get me wrong -- it's not right for any child to physically touch another child," she said. "I don't condone it."A letter from the school district claims that her son, Blake, engaged in sexual acts, displayed excessive affection, engaged in inappropriate touching and used obscene gestures. But Kirk said her son's potential expulsion is excessive."He's 6 -- he just came out of kindergarten," she said.Kirk claims Blake was forced to sign a paper without a parent's consent admitting he was wrong, and then a school security guard purposefully embarrassed him."He took him to classroom and told my son's peers what he'd done, and said, 'Don't you ever touch anyone's private areas. Are there any questions?'" Kirk said. "You don't have to embarrass a child like that."She said after the first time Blake touched a girl's bottom, he was suspended. But she said the second time wasn't intentional."He accidentally touched the little girl's bottom -- he told me accidentally -- and he apologized to the little girl," Kirk said.
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