School Accuses 6-year-old Boy Sexual Harassment

Prince William County, Virginia schools are deeply troubled. A couple weeks ago school officials suspended a 12-year-old indefinitely for standing up to a bully (hopefully the child is back in school). Now they have accused a 6-year-old of sexual harassment because he spanked another child. They even called the cops. Here’s the prurient details of what constitutes sexual harassment to Prince William County school officials:

Randy [the sexual deviant in the eyes of Prince William County Schools] sat on the lower bunk in his bedroom recently and explained what happened Nov. 26 on the playground at Potomac View Elementary School. Katherine DeLeon, a classmate who regularly came over to play, was kneeling on a bench, talking to friends. He said he saw another boy race over to the girl, whack her on the bottom and run away, giggling and pretending he hadn’t done it. He did it twice more, Randy said.

Randy said he thought it looked like fun, so he joined in, hitting her and running away twice. “Every time he hit her, she laughed,” Randy said. “When I hit her, she told the teacher.”

Katherine’s mother, Margarita DeLeon, who was contacted by school officials shortly after the incident, said that her daughter didn’t like being hit but that she quickly forgot about it. “We didn’t pay attention to it, because we know it’s just children playing around,” she said. “He didn’t mean anything by it. I’m upset with the school.”

I’m concerned that school officials think that first graders “playing around” is somehow sexual. What does that say about school officials?

It is one thing to have an isolated incidents such as the suspension of the kid standing up to the bully, but apparently there is a pattern of unjust overreactions from this school district. The Superintendent of Prince William County Schools is Steven L. Walts. If you think this is unjust, let him know. His email address is pwcssupt@pwcs.edu and his Executive Assistant’s phone number is 703.791.8712.