Kindergarten Sex Games: New York School Parents Of Five-Year-Olds Outraged

• BobYoMeowMeow wrote on 2012-02-07 14:06

  Parents of a two kindergarteners at PS 189 in New York, N. Y. say a group of students 'explored their private parts' by taking off their clothes, and allegedly engaging in oral sex-like activities while the teacher was present, WPIX-TV reports.
  
  While educator Dulaina Almonte told the station that teachers can't always see everything that's going on in the classroom, one parent told them they she doesn't believe the games could have gone unnoticed.
  
  "They were exposing themselves and showing their body parts to each other. They were kissing and touching," the parent told WPIX-TV. "The teacher had her back to the children. She must have had her back turned away for a very long time for them to do the things that they did."
  
  Despite complaints from parents, the inappropriate behavior continued for months the New York Post reports.
  
  One mother, who has since transfered her daughter to a school in New Jersey, told the Post that school officials tried to place the blame on the students.
  
  "They were trying to say that my daughter was inviting these children to do this to her," she told the paper. "Where were the adults?"
  
  She and the parent of another kindergartener have filed notices of claim against the city following the events, each for $5 million in damages.
  
  The school's principal as well as the New York Department of Eduction have declined to comment, the report states.
  
  The "sex games" in the classroom come in the wake of similar outrage at Washington Elementary School in New Ulm, Minn., after nearly two dozen 5th grade students were caught playing a game called "rape tag."
  
  In the game, the students "tagged" each other by grabbing each other's private parts.
  
  After a parent reported the game to the school principal Bill Sprung, he immediately took action by contacting all the teachers and recess supervisors.
  
  WATCH:

  
  
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  Teacher must be worse than blind to not stop these kind of activities in class
  seriously the clothes were off
• Hiccup wrote on 2012-02-07 14:08
  Kids pick it up from somewhere....
• Cucurbita wrote on 2012-02-07 14:16
  But then-
  
  5 million dollars in damage
  
  lol
• BobYoMeowMeow wrote on 2012-02-07 14:21

  Quote from Cucurbita;766377:

  But then-
  
  5 million dollars in damage
  
  lol

  
  
  thinking about it
  if the parents were complaining about it for months
  then why didnt they directly do something
• Medusa wrote on 2012-02-07 14:21
  >rape tag
  
  

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• Cynic wrote on 2012-02-07 14:43
  Doesn't matter where they learned it from. There's no reason the Teacher could have not noticed it going on for that long unless they were both blind and deaf, which I am assuming they are not.
• ValkyrieHamster wrote on 2012-02-07 15:29
  Have any of you spent years watching hordes of loud annoying 5 year olds tear apart a classroom. Not saying it's not really bad that this incident occured. But if you have to constantly watch that many kids every day it starts to wear at you. Teaching can really suck.
• EndlessDreams wrote on 2012-02-07 22:52
  Sucks to be that teacher that got all the blame.
  
  The kids will just continue doing what they are doing anyways, regardless of how many teachers they replace. The fault lies in one of the children's parents not teaching their kids.
  
  They should just come up with something drastic, like ban recess! It costs the school 5m dollars for something.
  
  Then again, it could be that one of the parents purposely taught their children this so they could sue the school.
• Bride wrote on 2012-02-07 23:02

  Quote from EndlessDreams;766522:

  Sucks to be that teacher that got all the blame.
  
  The kids will just continue doing what they are doing anyways, regardless of how many teachers they replace. The fault lies in one of the children's parents not teaching their kids.
  
  They should just come up with something drastic, like ban recess! It costs the school 5m dollars for something.
  
  Then again, it could be that one of the parents purposely taught their children this so they could sue the school.

  
  I really really really really hope that wouldn't be the case e__e
  
  

  Kids pick it up from somewhere....

  
  yup
  
  $5m in damages is ridiculous, I don't believe it was the teacher's fault either
  I'm sure kids can be such a handful too. my mom recently worked at a school for only 2 weeks. she was an assistant and was so overwhelmed by the class of 20 (and by the childish teachers but that's another story), she came home from work everyday seriously exhausted and grumpy until she quit
• Juno wrote on 2012-02-07 23:10
  So...who did notice?
• Sumpfkraut wrote on 2012-02-07 23:30
  Who cares anyway.
  
  Normal behaviour for children growing up unrepressed.
• Juno wrote on 2012-02-08 00:00

  Quote from Sumpfkraut;766543:

  Who cares anyway.
  
  Normal behaviour for children growing up unrepressed.

  
  
  Don't get ahead of yourself. Without outside influence, such things wouldn't start until about twice that age.
• Sumpfkraut wrote on 2012-02-08 00:18

  Quote from Juno;766565:

  Don't get ahead of yourself. Without outside influence, such things wouldn't start until about twice that age.

  
  "Without outside influence" actually meaning "without being artificially sheltered from something they'd normally witness in the first weeks of life if people didn't make such a big fuzz about it".
  
  Notice something? Oooooooooooooh.
• Juno wrote on 2012-02-08 00:24

  Quote from Sumpfkraut;766574:

  "Without outside influence" actually meaning "without being artificially sheltered from something they'd normally witness in the first weeks of life if people didn't make such a big fuzz about it".
  
  Notice something? Oooooooooooooh.

  
  
  I get the feeling you're not around kids much?
• Sumpfkraut wrote on 2012-02-08 00:35
  I have been around some, albeit mostly indeed older ones (6 and upwards). It's still perfectly normal for children as young as kindergarten age to copy what others do or find out about it by themselves by chance, even if it's sexual in nature. Either way even the professional consensus in Germany is that playing doctor is perfectly normal in kindergarten and includes positively sexual activities (there are several reports on it too). Sadly though, the consensus is also that it should rather be prevented then (some kindergartens however actually have added hidden from views regions that are to be exclusively entered by the children, at the very least the one in the neighbouring town does. The purpose is obvious).