Attack of the preschool perverts

Orange County Register ^ | April 12, 2008 | Mark Steyn

[Nony]

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.

[Perdogg]

That’s why if I marry and my wife have kids, my kids are going to private school not to government-run education camps, even if I have work part time at Sheets to pay for it.

[Jaidyn]

That’s why if I marry and my wife have kids, my kids are going to private school not to government-run education camps, even if I have work part time at Sheets to pay for it.

Some of the private schools are just as bad. My granddaughter, at age 5, got in trouble for kissing a little boy who fell down and hurt himself. She was trying to make him feel better, but the teacher made her feel like crap. They called her parents to report her, and she was disciplined. I guess the message is; do your research!

[J40000]

These educational commies have NO common sense. They just CAN’T get it through their heads that these innocent little children are have not yet been indoctrinated to the wonders of political correctness.
No, these poor kids are still kids - as God intended them to be and not as the ‘state’ would have them.

[ARridgerunner]

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[Dustbunny]

The NEA and demcrats have ruined the education system in this country

[wildandcrazyrussian]

It has been this way for at least 40 or 50 years in the public schools. I remember back in 1960 down in south Florida when a fifth-grade classmate walked behind a girl and snapped one of her straps. After a big uproar, he was sent away and we didn’t see him again until over a year later when he mentioned that he had been sent to a special school for “troubled” kids. This cancer has been eating away at American society for decades.

[Popman]

Free public education is neither free or an education.

We as a country will pay a heavy price for letting the education of our future generations fall into the hands of socialist and Marxist thugs

[woodbutcher]

Your tagline has to be the funniest I have seen yet.

[org.whodat]

I think cops will start ordering handcuffs of 1 year olds anyday for feeling tit.

[shaft29]

This is just utter nonsense. I went to a Catholic Elementary School. When I was in 3rd grade, I pinched a girl’s butt. The nun who was my teacher took me out in to the hallway and smacked me on the hands with a ruler. I then made the mistake of telling my mother who proceeded to spank me with a hair brush. I went back to school the next day. Never heard another word about it and never again pinched anyone”s butt.

[RightField]

I predict your tagline is going to get some wide circulation ... hilarious!

[RightField]

I then made the mistake of telling my mother who proceeded to spank me with a hair brush.

We must be from the same era. My mother was never interested in my side of any infractions at school. If I got punished at school, I was sure to get it again at home.

[knews_hound]

It has the advantage of being exactly right!

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[irv]

Some of the private schools are just as bad.

The people who run them graduated from the same schools and interned in the same public institutions, too. They've been through the same indoctrination.

[gesully]

But it is okay the have books for the kiddies like Heather Has Two Mommies or to let the little buggers declare which sex they want to be. When I went to school I would have declared myself a girl so I could go in and see what I could see.

[rwlawrence]

On the other hand if he had slapped a boys bottom he would have been pulled aside and told that there was nothing wrong with being a homosexual and that he should not be afraid to explore his sexuality. They then would have shown him the classroom with the pink triangle over the door and told him this was a sanctuary where he could flee from homophobic 6 year olds. He would be given a note to take home to his parents informing them that if they discouraged his homosexual tendencies they would be turned into Child Protective Services.

[RogerD]

These educational commies have NO common sense. They just CAN’T get it through their heads that these innocent little children are have not yet been indoctrinated to the wonders of political correctness. No, these poor kids are still kids - as God intended them to be and not as the ‘state’ would have them.

I'd revise that. Communists by definition have no sense, but I'm not convinced that schools, even public schools, have a higher proportion of people with no sense than you'll find in any other large organization. Most teachers are sensible, it's just that with the large number of teachers and schools, it's easy to find a few each week that take stupid to a whole new level. Keep in mind that these stories are news not because they're business as usual in public schools but because they are exceptional cases.

As long as we stay involved with our kids' education, regardless of whether it's public school, private school, or homeschool, decent parents will raise decent kids.

[carton253]

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