6 yr old suspended for sexual harrassment for a kiss

Vanilla Gorilla · Dec 13, 2013

UPDATE: School district drops ‘sexual harassment’ against 6-year-old, facing ‘misconduct’

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (CNN) – A 6-year-old boy who was suspended from school for sexual harassment is now back in class after a wave of publicity came crashing down on the school district.

Hunter Yelton said, “It was during class, yeah. We were doing reading group and I leaned over and kissed her on the hand. That’s what happened.”

For that kiss, the first-grader was sent home.

He said, “I did something wrong. They sent me to the office, fair and square. I feel sorry.”

Jennifer Yelton, Hunter’s mother, said, “She was fine with it, they are ‘boyfriend and girlfriend.’ The other children saw it and went to the music teacher. That was the day I had the meeting with the principal, where she first said sexual harassment. This is taking it to an extreme that doesn’t need to be met with a 6-year-old. Now my son is asking questions; ‘what is sex mommy?’ It should not ever be said, sex, in a sentence with a 6-year-old.”

Hunter’s mother tried to convince the school’s superintendent to erase the ‘sexual harassment’ classification off of her son’s school record.

However, he refused, stressing that Hunter’s actions fit the school policy description for sexual harassment.

Jennifer said, “How can you do this? How can you say this about my child? Remove sexual harassment, remove it from his record. I need to stand up and fight for him because that’s not the case. That’s not what happened at all.”

After the story caused outrage among national audiences, that superintendent has since changed his mind.

On Wednesday, KRDO reported that Canon City Schools Superintendent Robin Gooldy met with Hunter’s parents and changed his disciplinary offense from ‘sexual harassment’ to ‘misconduct.’

Both Hunter and his mom admit he has had some trouble at school in the past.

He has been suspended for rough-housing and for kissing the same girl on the cheek.

When asked if he was trying to be good in school, Hunter replied, “Yeah, but I have a lot of energy. I mean 6-year-olds, they have a lot of energy!”

A child clinical psychologist says it is normal for 6-year-old boys to try and kiss girls.

She believes suspending him and calling the kiss a form of sexual harassment sends mixed messages to children.

Instead, she believes the school should use it as a learning opportunity.

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He got off way too lightly, should have recieved life in prison, men are such pigs. Its MTV and all that rap music, whats wrong with the kids of today, back in my day, you kissed a girl on the hand when you were 6, you got cooties

wcw · Dec 13, 2013

That's how I started. It's like a gateway drug. Look at me now...I'm married.

Eavesdrop · Dec 13, 2013

when i was in first or second grade a boy had his friend pin my arms behind a flagpole while he slobbered all over my mouth in what he apparently thought kissing was. i told my teacher and she didn't do anything. anything at all.

weird thing, is that a friend from highschool, from a different town than the one i went to with the boy, randomly ended up marrying him. she added me on facebook and she has one of those HisNameHerName joint FB accounts and i was like :dizzy2: because there he was, that little fucking shithead who pinned me to the flag pole.

usedtobehoney · Dec 13, 2013

If it was my kid he wouldn't be going back to that school. It's ridiculous to make a kid feel like he did something bad for something so innocent. Way to ruin a boy's self-esteem American public school district. A 6 year old should never be suspended!

happilyinlove · Dec 13, 2013

This is the problem with political correctness, and trying to appease everyone. Nonsense!!

deleted · Dec 13, 2013

when I was in school, had a play where I was to kiss the girl on the cheek. I did that thru all the rehearsals.. during the live performance. I kissed her on the mouth.. maybe 2,3rd grade..

lode · Dec 13, 2013

Just suspension? Send that roughian to the gallows!

rak · Dec 16, 2013

Vanilla Gorilla said:

He got off way too lightly, should have recieved life in prison, men are such pigs. Its MTV and all that rap music, whats wrong with the kids of today, back in my day, you kissed a girl on the hand when you were 6, you got cooties
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A sex offender at that Age is my hero, man.

hahaha04 · Dec 16, 2013

Have that rapscallion drawn and quartered and hung out in the harbor as a warning to all other pira-....children.

rak · Dec 16, 2013

The victim should be reported for turning her on!

Heat · Dec 16, 2013

What is the most upsetting is that in the future if that was to stay on the official record if someone were to investigate this person they could profile as a sexual offender.

PC taken way too far. We all know there need to be rules for the extreme cases where a child is a danger but in most cases, like this one, the rules should not be enforced. Some discretion is warranted before marking someone's record with something like a kiss at 6 years old.

bird_migration · Dec 16, 2013

Vanilla Gorilla said:

He got off way too lightly, should have recieved life in prison, men are such pigs. Its MTV and all that rap music, whats wrong with the kids of today, back in my day, you kissed a girl on the hand when you were 6, you got cooties
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Lock up the creep. Or better yet, castrate him.

I'minmyunderwear · Dec 16, 2013

He said, “I did something wrong. They sent me to the office, fair and square. I feel sorry.”
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When asked if he was trying to be good in school, Hunter replied, “Yeah, but I have a lot of energy. I mean 6-year-olds, they have a lot of energy!”
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i know 6-year-olds. this is not how they talk. i wonder who wrote his script.

usedtobehoney · Dec 16, 2013

They talk like that when that's been told to them many times and they are just parroting what they've been told. That's why it pisses me off so much...these adults guilt-tripping this little boy making him feel like he did something evil.

Fires me up.

rak · Dec 17, 2013

I'minmyunderwear;7874948 said:

i know 6-year-olds. this is not how they talk. i wonder who wrote his script.
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Word, this sounds fake.

Eavesdrop · Dec 17, 2013

From the little girl's mom's perspective:
http://www.canoncitydailyrecord.com...r-girl-involved-kissing-discipline-speaks-out

The mother of a girl involved in the case of a 6-year-old Cañon City school boy being suspended for a second violation of giving a classmate unwanted kisses said she feels the school district has done a "great job" in protecting her daughter "from sexual harassment."
Cañon City School District officials defended their decision Tuesday to impose a recent two-day suspension on a first-grade student at Lincoln School of Science & Technology after his mother, Jennifer Saunders, said he kissed a female classmate on the cheek in November and then kissed the same girl on the hand Dec. 4.
The girl's mother, Jade Masters-Ownbey, spoke out on a Facebook page and gave permission to the Daily Record to publish her response.
"Not once, but over and over...not with her permission but sneaking up on her...not without warning and consequences prior to suspension," she stated.
Superintendent Dr. Robin Gooldy said under the district's sexual harassment policy, the fourth definition fits both circumstances, which reads, "Unwelcome touching, such as patting, pinching or repeated brushing against another's body."
Ownbey stated there originally were two boys who had "kept her (daughter) from playing with other kids and fought with each other."
"After they got in trouble, one boy stopped but the other boy apparently didn't get it," she stated. "I had to put restrictions on her about which she was allowed to be around at school. I've had to coach her about what to do when you don't want someone touching you, but they won't stop."
Lincoln Principal Tammy DeWolfe said Tuesday that any time a misbehavior or a violation of school conduct is reported to a teacher or a principal, she moves forward with an investigation to gather accurate information about what really happened.
"Then we continue to work with the families," she said. "Our goal is to ultimately get that inappropriate behaviors to stop."
She said the school would "never suspend a student for one minor little violation," adding that typically there are things that build up to suspension level where the behaviors have not changed over time and/or they continue.
"Our job as a school is to basically maintain a safe learning environment for all children in the school, and that's certainly what we're trying to do here," she said.
Ownbey stated her daughter's older brother has felt like he needed to protect her at school.
"In elementary school, when a boy kisses a girl, the usual response of their peers is 'ewwww,'" she stated. "So why do the other kids rush to tell? Because they've seen it over and over, they've seen him repeatedly get in trouble for it, they've seen the girl repeatedly tell him to stop, they know it's wrong."
Saunders said her son was placed on in-school suspension for the first offense, and he was given a two-day suspension for the most recent. She said she feels the discipline was appropriate, but having sexual harassment on his record is wrong.
"He is 6 years old, and that is absolutely ridiculous for him to have 'sexual harassment' on his record, even it is (only on the district's) record," she said.
Gooldy said the policy infractions will be on the student's discipline record only while he is in the Cañon City School District, after that they go away. He made it clear that law enforcement is not involved, and no criminal charges have been brought against the boy.
"It's strictly a school discipline issue," he said.
Ownbey expressed hope that people would not "start bashing the school that is doing a great job protecting my child from what is sexual harassment."
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