Kindergarten student’s father fears his son will be stereotyped as a “pervert”
A six-year old boy is accused of sexually harassing a teacher in Greer. The kindergarten student is now facing possible discipline.
Malory Pinkney, Sr. says his son came home Tuesday in tears from Skyland Elementary. His father is a minister and says his child has been accused of sexual harassment by one of the teachers there.
Pinkney says the boy brought home a discipline referral that says the child told his teacher that one of his classmates liked looking at her behind.
Pinkney doesn’t deny the allegation, but says his son is going to be labeled as a result of this situation.
“Here is my son is six years old,” says Malory Pinkney, Sr. “Now he’s getting ready to have something put on his record that’s going to follow him for the rest of his life. So whoever looks at his record, they have already stereotyped him as being some kind of little pervert or something like that. And I have to refuse that.”
The Greenville County School District responded with a written statement saying, “anytime you have a media account, you’re only going to have one side, one viewpoint. Since we can’t give the details, we can assure you the matter was handled appropriately at the school level.”
We did give the district a chance to tell their side in detail, but they declined. The district said that since it was a student discipline matter, they could not make any further comment.
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wil // April 5, 2008 at 4:38 pm
I pulled up a girl’s dress once in second grade. But then they wore so many clothes all there was was the secondary ruffle layer. And I really had no clue about anything else.
pjwalker911 // April 5, 2008 at 5:39 pm
Pervert.
Mr. Roach // April 6, 2008 at 4:58 pm
In public schools, feminized churches, and our popular culture, a uniform standard of good behavior has emerged: just be nice. This is not enough. It ignores te unique excellence and distinct roles to be played by men and women in a healthy social life. But this is no matter to advocates; for them, sex differences are merely a social construct designed to subordinate women. Differences must be hammered out.
Boys who show energy and initiative are labeled as sufferers from attention deficit disorder and quickly put on Ritalin. Worse, older masculine ideals are put down as archaic, oppressive, “sexist,” and barbaric. This has led to a degradation of both sexes. Men are increasingly predatory or useless, fathering kids they quickly abandon, leaving their older wives with children, and retreating from responsibility with a cynical demand for equal treatment. If they are less anti-social, they are wimpy, insecure, and superfluous figures. Women, in the name of equal rights, find themselves barren and unattractive after investing their prime years in a career that does not live up to billing in terms of fulfillment. Even if they manage to settle down, masculine virtues like emotional self control and bearing are in short supply among their mates
wil // April 8, 2008 at 12:18 am
There is a book called I think “The War Against Boys,” which is quite good, though disturbing.
I think now I would characterize myself as a recovering sensitive 70’s male. After a while you get tired of being marginalized and walked on. Well I did anyway.
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