Fifth Graders Post Lookout While 4 Students Have Sex in Classroom

[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.

[tld221]

Originally Posted by AlphaFrog

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.

good looking out AF
i suppose who is responsible for leaving said kids unattended is secondary...

Originally Posted by stardusttwin17

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.

having sex as minors or doing so on school property? i mean, its already been mentioned but the former issue is more of a counseling/morals kind of issue, while the latter seems to be more a legality. and if these kids are ballsy enough to get it on out in the "open," then i doubt a slap on the wrist (and for obscenity at that) is making them scream mercy.