I'm going to go out on a limb here folks. I don't think there is a parent out there who wakes their 8-year-old up, slips a lunchbag in their backpack, and sends them out the door in the morning thinking "Hooray! Today is the day my kid sees two other third graders having oral sex in their classroom!" So. Wrong. And apparently so true.
A teacher has been fired after administrators say that exact horror happened under a table in a classroom at the Tallulah Elementary School in Louisiana's Madison Parish. And I can't help but think of all the OTHER little kids who are sharing a third grade classroom with two kids who engage in oral sex.
Can you imagine what that conversation was like? Here's this kid whose Mom and Dad have made a point of limiting their TV watching to Disney and other non-oral-sex-type appropriate-for-8-year-old fare. He's sitting at the dinner table at night and Dad asks "So son, how was your day?" And he starts asking about mouths and private parts and . . . yeah, I'll stop there.
It's wrong. Third graders aren't supposed to know the words oral sex, forget the actual act! Most don't because we parents make sure they don't.
I've got the feeling that at least one of the two children involved in that incident was either a victim of sexual abuse or of an overly-permissive adult who allowed them around material that was wildly unsuitable for kids. It may well be that the second kid just got roped in, guided down a perverted path. I feel sorry for those kids, and I'm glad the school gave them counseling in addition to getting rid of the teacher who somehow did not notice that two kids were under a desk doing something sexual. But what now? We just put them back in the classroom, like nothing ever happened?
What about all of those other kids, who can't unsee what they saw? The kids who now spend day in and day out with two kids who obviously do not a handle on proper in-classroom behavior. Is that fair to them?
I can't say that I'd be terribly comfortable with knowing my kid was sharing a classroom with a kid like that. I'd always be wondering what was next, what would the kids do, and worst of all, would my innocent, sweet, well-raised child be targeted by a child whose barometer for right and wrong is way off? I hate to punish
Getting rid of the teacher is a good step, but if I were a parent with a third grader at Tallulah, I'd be asking for more. She didn't make these kids do this. That's on the kids -- as disturbing as that is to face.
Would you allow your child share a class with children who were caught at this young age engaging in oral sex in the classroom?
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OH HELL NO! I'D TRANSFER MY DD OUT OF THAT SCHOOL COMPLETELY & GIVE HER A THERAPIST TO HELP HER COPE WHAT SHE HAS HEARD/SEEN!
PLUS IF THE TRANSFER DIDNT HAPPEN ASAP I'D KEEP MY CHILD HOME FROM SCHOOL!
I don't understand how the teacher is to blame, enough so to be rightfully fired.
another reason to homeschool
No I would not.
I use to baby sit my little cousin and was the "adult" who supervised her birthday parties. She had a over night slumber party with mostly girls (a few boys who slept in a seperate room). Two of the little girls were what I call "horny little brats", because everytime I turned around I was having to break them up. This was two young girls who were both 6 or 7 years old. One of them (which is the one who instigated it) was from a penacostal family who were very strict on their faith. She was not around sexual content at home or anything. I kept having to pull her and this other girl from each other, because they kept trying to hump on each other and do sexual stuff. Needless to say I got NO sleep that night. This just shows it's not always from the home life of one of the children involved.
A lot of it comes from the school. The children they are exposed to. My oldest son use to attend a school here in Louisiana. He had a boy tell him on the bus ALL the time to suck his.... So just because two children do something does not mean one of them has a bad parent or was sexually abused. Just means they are curious and possibly learned about it from older kids or even same aged kids in school. I knew ALL about sex when I was 5 years old and it wasn't from my home life.
This is disgusting. When I was a child, children used to do perverted things like this, for example expose themselves in class (I'm thinking of one specific boy). Kids touch each other inappropriately, and it is usually the boys touching the girls, etc. I hated the way those kids acted. Some kids would bring pornography to school (magazines). The kids do it in my children's classes too. One time I walked in to pick up my daughter from her montesorri school, and another little girl was kissing my daughter in the mouth! Of course the teacher had only turned her back for a moment...it happens all the time, everywhere. We, as parents need to protect our children from those things as best as we can and it starts at home. This story is so sad, and I feel so bad for those poor kids.
I think the whole situation is sad in one way or the other. Has the school done something for the other kids?
Oh and the above reasons are the reason why I homeschool. If I want my son to be exposed to the trash facts about sex then I would give him porn. My children know the medical aspect of everything and even call their parts by the medical names. I don't think it is right for a child to call it by other. Curiousity though is normal for kids. Just means it is that time for the parents to have that talk with those two children and explain somethings to them.
o come on, the teacher should be fire for not watching the kids, the parents should be arrested and investigated. how did the kids get that far without the teacher knowing it, throw the book at them all.