Just when you thought riding a school bus was a safer way for kids to get to and from school...A friend of mine whose kids attend the middle school in town where mine used to go called me yesterday and asked what I would do in the following situation. On the bus home the other day, two middle school boys decide to whip out their tallywhackers and show 'em off, apparently rubbing them on books and stuff. Her daughter was on this bus and saw the whole thing and was upset by it, as I know I sure would have been. The rumor mill has it that they were given a one week suspension off the bus. So she called to get my advice on how to deal with it, but Iwasn't available at the time, so she called the school and raised holy hell, just as I later told her I would have done. The school says it hasn't meted out the punishment yet, but that it would be appropriate to the crime and was basically none of her business.
Pardon me, I understand privacy issues and all that, but it will make the rounds of the students and the local community so why not put parents minds at ease and let them know what happened and how it was dealt with. I, as a parent, would not necessarily need the kids' names, although I am sure that my kids would tell me who it was, but I think an acknowledgement of the issue would be a good thing, as it would let the community--I mean the school's kids and parents--know such acts were taken seriously and dealt with.
Quite honestly, I view such an act as an act of sexual harassment. And should be dealt with as such. If an adult did that to another adult or a kid, it would be. There is no tolerance for taking an aspirin to school to take in case of menstrual cramps, heck, you can't even go to the bathroom half the time without an act of Congress, so why should this BS be allowed to go on without being addressed?
And I know my friend----she will keep raising hell until she gets the answers she seeks. She is trying to protect her children, after all. And if she doesn;t look out for them, who will?
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