Fifth Graders Post Lookout While 4 Students Have Sex in Classroom

[CrimsonTide4]

Authorities: Fifth-graders posted lookout, had sex in class

NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana (AP) -- Five fifth-grade students face criminal charges after authorities said four of them had sex in front of other students in an unsupervised classroom and kept a classmate posted as a lookout for teachers.

The students were arrested Tuesday at the Spearsville school in rural north Louisiana, authorities said. Two 11-year-old girls, a 12-year-old boy and a 13-year old boy were charged with obscenity, a felony. An 11-year-old boy, the alleged lookout, was charged with being an accessory.

"After 44 years of doing this work, nothing shocks me anymore," said Union Parish Sheriff Bob Buckley. "But this comes pretty close."

[12dn94dst]

Originally Posted by CNN.com Article

"When no teacher showed up, the four began to have sex in the classroom with the other elementary students in the classroom with them," he said.

WHAT THE [filth flarn filth] HAPPENED TO PLAYING TAG OR SOME OTHER STUPID GAME IN THE CLASSROOM???

WHAT THE [filth flarn filth] ARE THE PARENTS TEACHING THESE KIDS??


WHERE THE [filth flarn filth] ARE THE PARENTS???

[DSTRen13]

Originally Posted by CrimsonTide4

Authorities: Fifth-graders posted lookout, had sex in class

NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana (AP) -- Five fifth-grade students face criminal charges after authorities said four of them had sex in front of other students in an unsupervised classroom and kept a classmate posted as a lookout for teachers.

The students were arrested Tuesday at the Spearsville school in rural north Louisiana, authorities said. Two 11-year-old girls, a 12-year-old boy and a 13-year old boy were charged with obscenity, a felony. An 11-year-old boy, the alleged lookout, was charged with being an accessory.

"After 44 years of doing this work, nothing shocks me anymore," said Union Parish Sheriff Bob Buckley. "But this comes pretty close."

I guess it's not technically illegal (is it??), but that is so incredibly SAD and DISGUSTING ... What possesses children to act like that?! I guess children aren't really children any more ... this kind of thing scares me

[Dionysus]

Originally Posted by DSTRen13

I guess it's not technically illegal (is it??), but that is so incredibly SAD and DISGUSTING ... What possesses children to act like that?! I guess children aren't really children any more ... this kind of thing scares me

I didn't know that a kiddo's wanger could even get hard at that age. Yuck. Yeah, when I was in fifth grade my interests were Guess? Jeans, sega/nintendo, and nickoledean (however you spell it).

[Conskeeted7]

Originally Posted by Dionysus

Yeah, when I was in fifth grade my interests were Guess? Jeans, sega/nintendo, and nickoledean (however you spell it).

I agree that most of us cannot imagine thinking about having sex in the 5th grade. However, the things we used to do have been influenced with sex in a manner they weren't when we were kids. You say you used to play video games. The video games now have extreme violence and sex acts portrayed. We didn't play games like that. Even wearing Guess jeans has been replaced with Apple Bottoms and Baby phat, which are both sexual descriptions, in my opinion. Basic cable that carried Nickelodeon (and not much else) has been replaced with cable networks that show explicit shows all times of the day and night, for free. You don't even have to pay extra for those shows anymore.

It's not just the media. Everywhere kids turn now, they are enticed by sex.

[smlwonderdst]

Originally Posted by CrimsonTide4

Authorities: Fifth-graders posted lookout, had sex in class

NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana (AP) -- Five fifth-grade students face criminal charges after authorities said four of them had sex in front of other students in an unsupervised classroom and kept a classmate posted as a lookout for teachers.

The students were arrested Tuesday at the Spearsville school in rural north Louisiana, authorities said. Two 11-year-old girls, a 12-year-old boy and a 13-year old boy were charged with obscenity, a felony. An 11-year-old boy, the alleged lookout, was charged with being an accessory.

"After 44 years of doing this work, nothing shocks me anymore," said Union Parish Sheriff Bob Buckley. "But this comes pretty close."

Wow. Just Wow. This is a different world from which we grew up in. When I was in the 5th grade, sex was not even on my radar screen. This is just sad.

[tld221]

Originally Posted by CrimsonTide4

Authorities: Fifth-graders posted lookout, had sex in class

NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana (AP) -- Five fifth-grade students face criminal charges after authorities said four of them had sex in front of other students in an unsupervised classroom and kept a classmate posted as a lookout for teachers.

The students were arrested Tuesday at the Spearsville school in rural north Louisiana, authorities said. Two 11-year-old girls, a 12-year-old boy and a 13-year old boy were charged with obscenity, a felony. An 11-year-old boy, the alleged lookout, was charged with being an accessory.

"After 44 years of doing this work, nothing shocks me anymore," said Union Parish Sheriff Bob Buckley. "But this comes pretty close."

anyone else subconsciously make this connection, between the name of the school and the location? (and this is why im not surprised by her downfall... look at her hometown yall)

and yeah, i remember in 8th grade some of my classmates trashed a classroom and since i didnt wanna do it, they told me to play lookout. well, of course we get caught and letters get sent home. and i get my @ss beat not because of the act, but because i had to take the rap for being a lame @ss lookout.

"if you gon be about it then be about it," ma would say.

and yeah, this is gross... but if they weren't doing it in the classroom, theyd be in someone's garage, backyard, bedroom, under the bleachers...

p.s. i didnt know "obscenity" was a felony... is that a Louisana thing? and isnt 12/13 years old a little grown to be in 5th grade?

ETA: ok, it took a full day for the sherriffs to find out about this? WTF? and what teacher leaves a class unattended to go to a school assembly?

[AlphaFrog]

Originally Posted by tld221

anyone else subconsciously make this connection, between the name of the school and the location? (and this is why im not surprised by her downfall... look at her hometown yall)

That was seriously the FIRST think I noticed.

[CrimsonTide4]

Originally Posted by tld221

anyone else subconsciously make this connection, between the name of the school and the location? (and this is why im not surprised by her downfall... look at her hometown yall)

and yeah, i remember in 8th grade some of my classmates trashed a classroom and since i didnt wanna do it, they told me to play lookout. well, of course we get caught and letters get sent home. and i get my @ss beat not because of the act, but because i had to take the rap for being a lame @ss lookout.

"if you gon be about it then be about it," ma would say.

and yeah, this is gross... but if they weren't doing it in the classroom, theyd be in someone's garage, backyard, bedroom, under the bleachers...

p.s. i didnt know "obscenity" was a felony... is that a Louisana thing? and isnt 12/13 years old a little grown to be in 5th grade?

ETA: ok, it took a full day for the sherriffs to find out about this? WTF? and what teacher leaves a class unattended to go to a school assembly?

The article is from New Orleans but the school is in rual north Louisiana, hence the bolding by the name of the school.

[laylo]

Sadly I am not shocked by this. In 4th grade I spent a year away from the good school I was used to in a poor school where kids were generally neglected talked down to. In the first month I was made fun of for being a virgin (I didn't even know what a virgin was). Later in the year my friend's 5th grade brother and his friend chased me home from the park saying (with laughter) that they were going to rape me. In that neighborhood boys were considered men at about 12 and expected to fend for themselves. That way of growing up too fast throws their sexuality off. And IMO the media is not helping.

[stardusttwin17]

I'm really trying to understand what was the purpose of arresting any of the children? All of them are equally underage and there is no indication that any half of the party was coerced or forced.

Some type of mandatory counseling - YES.

Being lookout should mean you get your tail waxed with a good old fashioned belt from Big Mamma - not be tagged as an accessory with an juvie record.

Going so far as to arrest all of them serves NO purpose except to shut the barn door after the horse has already left.

The teacher that was suppossed to be watching the class should be dusting off her resume.

[AlphaFrog]

Originally Posted by stardusttwin17

I'm really trying to understand what was the purpose of arresting any of the children? All of them are equally underage and there is no indication that any half of the party was coerced or forced.

Some type of mandatory counseling - YES.

Being lookout should mean you get your tail waxed with a good old fashioned belt from Big Mamma - not be tagged as an accessory with an juvie record.

Going so far as to arrest all of them serves NO purpose except to shut the barn door after the horse has already left.

The teacher that was suppossed to be watching the class should be dusting off her resume.

They weren't arrested for statutory or anything like that, they were arrested for obscenity, which the lookout was an accessory to.

[stardusttwin17]

Originally Posted by AlphaFrog

They weren't arrested for statutory or anything like that, they were arrested for obscenity, which the lookout was an accessory to.

I still don't think the spirit of the laws of obscenity were intended to arrest 11,12 & 13 year olds participating in consenual acts. Watching the door so others can get their freak on - you stoopid but not much else.

I'm not trying to make light of this - I just don't want these kids labeled as juvies and thus no expectations are held for them. Middle school is where many kids "drop out". Arresting them is just reactionary and over the top to me and does nothing to explain to the children or their classmates why they shouldn't have done what they did. The "just say no" approach didn't work when I was a kid and it clearly isn't working for this next over exposed generation.

[tld221]

Originally Posted by stardusttwin17

The teacher that was suppossed to be watching the class should be dusting off her resume.

she should be ripping it up and finding a new career.

(ok harsh, but really, leaving students unattended?)

[AlphaFrog]

Originally Posted by tld221

she should be ripping it up and finding a new career.

(ok harsh, but really, leaving students unattended?)

If you read the story posting in the N&P forum, it wasn't that teacher's fault. That teacher was supposed to be at the assembly, and it was the previous teacher who mistakenly sent them on to the aforementioned teacher's class.