Soccer Mom: Unplugged

An 8 year old was suspended from second grade for sexually harrassing a female classmate.  Seems during a game of tag, jr. may have grabbed the little gal by her hind end and that act combined with the fact that he had sent her a few love notes in class got him sent home for a day.

Priceless quotes from the Morning Journal report:

''It's not a disciplinary action,'' Schnurr said yesterday, adding the allegation will not be placed in the student's permanent record. ''We don't want to put something in the permanent record of a youngster who may not understand what they did wrong.

(oooh the dreaded permanent record!  This kid could give his mother forty whacks and his father forty-one and it'd still be expunged at 18 - what the heck is a permanent record, anyway?!?)

''Apparently, they had to treat it as sexual harassment,'' Barth said, adding the girl has been friends with her son for a long time. ''And then he was given a day off of school because of passing notes that say ÔI love you.'''

Johnson said the incident was harmless and referring to it as sexual harassment is what was ''inappropriate.'''

''Little kids are going to do stupid things like that,'' he said of his son passing love letters.

(Passing love letters is "stupid".  How about "passing love letters is a normal part of development" and though eight might seem kind of young, if you've watched an episode of Jimmy Neutron, you know, that even cartoons are dealing in themes that are too mature for their average viewership. 

Another thought: If I were the second grade teacher, I'd be glad they were writing!  I'd say,  "Hey!  you want to write?  Give me 20 sentences about why Suzie Q is such a hottie and make sure you use this week's spelling words!")

The school system Dean speaks:

''It's our job to teach students at a young age that inappropriate behavior is unacceptable,'' Schnurr said. ''The student did something wrong, admitted he did something wrong and received the proper discipline.''

He added it is unfortunate that this discipline is not emphasized at the student's home.

(Huh?  The kid didn't steal a car and drive to Vegas.  He passed a love note and then may have grabbed the girl's butt during a game of tag.  To excoriate the parents as if jr. wasn't getting home training is ridiculous.  What parent sits down with their 8 year old to explain 'sexual harrassment'?  For grabbing Juliet's bottom, Romeo deserves a talking to and some form of punishment simply to deter future lapses, but punishment for writing love notes is absurd.  On Feb 14th the teacher probably passed out heart shaped red construction paper and taught them to write I love you and now it's a crime?)

The overreacting parents are now considering litigation against the overreacting school system that is assuming something inappropriate happened in the gym simply because a few weeks prior Jr. wrote "I love you" on a sheet of wide rule and passed it to the pig-tailed blonde in the front row.  Sounds like everyone is overreacting.  

Advice to the parents:  Don't sue.  Take the high road and teach your kids that stupid people often make it into positions of power but that isn't reason to pursue the contemporary fix-all approach of taking people to court.  Keep your kids in this school.  Go to every PTA. Stay involved.  Report every infraction - if the school board doesn't listen, the media will.

Advice to the principal and school board:  Crack open a book on human development and then sit down with one of my favorite nursery ryhmes to rethink the stupid position you've taken.  Here's a copy.  It's on me.

Georgie Porgie pudding pie

kissed the girls and made them cry.

When the boys came out to play

Georgie Porgie ran away.

Everyone who logged onto Drudge today saw Newt Gingrich with a full plate of food in each hand and the caption "You're Fat".  Apparently, that is what the Dems are offering to America in lieu of actual policy suggestions. 

"You're fat."  That's what the heads of the DNC came up with while they were brainstorming (a term which in this case must mean sharing the one brain they have between them) for possible '08 slogans.  That's the message they want to get out?  They're rocking to vote with "You're fat"?  Not even "You're phat" (aimed at younger voters, of course) but "you're fat"?!?

Aside from the obvious explanations for the photo (like maybe he was being a gentleman and getting food for another person or maybe he was just famished or maybe who the he** cares what he's having for lunch?)  this beauty of a campaign is going to land the dems in some serious hot water.  Can't you just picture the debates?

And Senator Clinton, how do you propose we handle global warming?

"All I can say, Jim, is my opponent needs to shed a few pounds."

But what more can we expect from the party of name-callers, fiction writing revisionists who are so afraid to lose power that they will create scandal and conspiracy over a fake turkey feed-the-troops photo-op and a handful of misfired shotgun pellets?

Okay, maybe the "freakin'" was a bit much.  I usually try really hard to keep it clean. LOL.

Just surfing around and discovered that the sponsor of website JustHillary.com is none other than New York Post's political editor.  Objectivity is out the window.  Kudos for at least announcing his bias.  Wow.  The site maintains that it is dedicated to news and info about the Queen Democratic bee and that it is critical as well as lauditory but I'm thinking that unless she gave birth to you, paid your taxes or pulled you from the flaming wreckage of a downed 747,  you have no reason to dedicate your online existence to her.  Can you say WEIRD?

Add another one to the Gimme-a-break file.