Autistic touchy feely 5 year old punished for sexual harrass

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Family of 5-year-old with autism says he was punished for hugging at East Ridge Elementary

1984, Brave New World, Ferenhight 451. They wanted that type of world so much. Now we're seeing it taking shape.

Whoa... I could understand if he was 15, but 5? Seriously?

Sure, they're right about the thing that the kid needs to be taught about boundaries, repeatedly until he gets it, but this goes too far. If he scares the other kids or something with being so touchy, just keeping an eye on him and stopping him every time he tries to get too touchy should work. As long as the kid isn't really badly mentally challenged, he'd get it eventually.

Even "normal" five-year-olds could be affectionate like that.

Too much friggin' PC!! !! !!

I believe people must start using their common sense again. Common sense is going out the window these days. Just for some political agenda.

Maybe they just are not starting sex education early enough? How can you have intent on committing sexual harrassment without knowing what sex is? I bet the kids wouldn't have done this if education on what sex is started as soon as he was out of diapers.

That's insane. I wonder if they would have seen it as inappropriate if he wasn't autistic? Unfortunately just the knowledge that a kid has something could lead to them punishing him/her even if a normie kid wouldn't have been, just because that (in this case boundaries) is something the "special" kid can have a problem with while the normie is just mischievous or maybe even just social and sweet in this scenario.

In daycare I saw a kid return after a day away, and walk up to another kid, hug them and say "you're my best friend". That was a "normal" kid, and no one reacted in any way. Of course this was back in the 90's, so maybe things are less relaxed now.

A 5 year old hugging a peer is not sexual harassment.

I bet if he was a girl, they would not have arrested him. I was kissing and hugging other kids and touching them. No one has ever called the cops on me and had me arrested.

So let's get this straight. This child is punished for hugging someone, but Nick007's adult neighbour can scream at his ten year old daughter and call her a "little bitcch" without incident.

This world is messed.

A five year old????

Please tell me this story is a joke.

Placing a little kid who obviously didn't knew any better in police custody is just crazy.

I am wondering when a new show will be coming out about a new Scared straight: Daycare Edition.

I do think the kid needs to learn about boundaries because if he hugs & kisses the wrong person, he could get physically hurt/beat up. I was hurt & beat up a lot by bullies as early as kindergarten just for being awkward even thou I never touched anyone unless they touched me. I'd imagine that getting beat up a few times would make someone not want to touch others. I'm NOT saying that this kid deserves to be hurt or anything for touching others like that, what I'm saying is that he likely wouldn't keep doing it for too much longer so I don't get why the skewl is acting like he's some predator who should know better before he started skewl. I also think that if he was in a public skewl, the skewl could be trying to push him out cuz the skewl doesn't wanna deal with a kid who has issues like autism. This kid may be much better off at a skewl for special needs kids. I know I did alot better at a skewl for dyslexia than the other skewls I went to.