Well, from one extreme to another. Perhaps instead of monitoring how kids are running on the playground or how high they swing, teachers and playground attendents should be paying better attention to what these kids are doing in their spare time out on the prison grounds that was once a playground. I know that I've had some issues with those 'attendants-who-stand-around-and-talk-and-ignore-the-things-that-most-
parents-would-call-questionable-acts', you know the ones I speak of. If not, read my previous post. Those who back the 'safety advocates'?
Take away the running, the tag, the jungle gyms, and the slides and this is the result? Well ok, I have no evidence that these activities have been taken away from this particular school but if I really thought about it, which I have, what else will kids have to do with their energy? And where in the h*** do they pick up on this sort of behavior. Umm, oh, that's right. Why go outside at home? Since the kids are being banned from running and playing on the playground at school, they have more time to watch tv and play video games.....This is really a disturbing story. And the ages of these kids, all I can do is sit here in awe......
St. Louis schoolboys to be charged in sex assault
CHICAGO (Reuters) - A dozen schoolboys aged 6 to 8 years old will be charged for allegedly sexually assaulting a female classmate during recess and a teacher who was supposed to be supervising them has been fired, authorities said on Wednesday.
In the Friday incident, the boys surrounded the 8-year-old girl on the school playground and poked at her with their fingers while she fought to keep on her underwear, local media reports said. Another student alerted teachers.
Most of the boys involved were expelled and the girl removed from the 400-pupil school, Columbia Accelerated Community Educational Center. One teacher was fired and another was suspended, the school district superintendent said.
Police referred charges of sexual misconduct and assault against the boys, and prosecutors could bring additional charges, said Kathryn Herman, an administrator with the juvenile division of the St. Louis court system.
"It's quite rare we get delinquency referrals on such young children," Herman said."
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