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6-year-old boy suspended from school for kissing student on the cheek (nydailynews.com)
5 points by commanderj 4567 days ago
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So... no interview with the girl? Glossing over the fact that he's "rough-housed" this same girl before? It sounds like this kid has a pattern of violent unwanted physical advances.
Yeah straight to prison with him.
Didn't say prison, or ruining his life or anything. But a suspension seems appropriate. And while a euphemism may be warranted for someone his age, it is technically sexual assault.
Does a 6 year old even understand what sexual assault means?
Enough to know that kissing someone who doesn't want to be kissed is wrong, and rough-housing with someone who doesn't want to be rough-housed with is wrong. It's not complicated...
You're assuming she didn't want to be kissed (we don't have the girl's perspective on this; apparently they're "boyfriend and girlfriend", which I don't think are valid terms with six-year-olds anyway...).

Expelling imho is very extreme in this case, there's other ways to communicate to the boy/class that it wasn't appropriate without making a way-to-public statement about it.

he may be on the shortlist of sex pests in the future. roughhousing record? however moralizing is past it. lots of context missing though
Reading the title, I thought it is India