When Did Singing To A Girl In School Become Sexual Harassment
When I read the part about D’Avonte getting suspended for sexual harassment for singing to a girl, I thought it was silly. (In a way, it was cute of D’Avonte.) The charge for suspension should of been disruptive behavior. The kid wasn’t making sexual advances but crooning a girl. The school personal needs to learn what sexual harassment is.
In Aurora, Colorado, a first-grader was suspended for sexual harassment after singing a line from an LMFAO song to a girl in his grade. “I’m sexy and I know it,” D’Avonte Meadows crooned. He was thrown out of school for harassment because the school’s discipline code reads that his behavior had “negative effects on the learning or work of others.”
Predictably, the boy’s mother was shocked that D’Avonte was punished: “I could understand if he was fondling her, looking up her skirt, trying to look in her shirt … That, to me, is sexual harassment. I’m just, I’m floored. They’re going to look at him like he’s a pervert. And it’s like, that’s not fair to him,” said Stephanie Meadows.
Of course, Ms. Meadows also acknowledged that D’Avonte had done the same thing last month while “shaking his booty near the girl’s face” and been warned by the assistant principal to stop.
But now she’s getting involved. “I’m going to definitely have to sit with him and see if he understands exactly what the song means,” Meadows said.
