12 Year Olds Arrested For Having Sex At School
Several days ago, police in my town arrested two 12 year olds for having sex at school. The preteens admitted to having sex there on at least three other occasions.
Both students had asked to be excused from class to go to the restroom. After they'd been gone an unusually long time, teachers went to investigate and found them having sex in the boys' bathroom.
Police arrested them for disrupting school and they've both been suspended from school and may also face expulsion.
Oh, please. I can understand the school suspending them; that is an appropriate response for their misbehavior. But expulsion? That goes over the top considering that even horny kids still need an education and that their actions didn't hurt other students in any way.
And to arrest them for "disrupting school"? I fail to see where the disrupting happened if they were able to successfully engage in clandestine sex at least three times with no one being any the wiser and even in the time they got caught, no other students were witnesses or otherwise involved.
Though their actions were inappropriate as to time and place, I don't think they deserve to be saddled with a criminal record simply for being sexually precocious. Back in the day when I was in school, such a matter would have been handled entirely by the school as an internal matter with suspensions and parent-teacher conferences, which I think still would be the most common sense approach.
Your mileage may vary, of course, as I'm sure it will with my more contentious readers.
They have to arrest the kids, so they can be in denial that children that
young are having sex. It is like arresting a child for having paper
scissors and putting hand cuffs on a four year old, because he was
squirming. The zero tolerance of said society, who says " we wont have
it". Then they don't understand why a child brings a gun to school. We have
Zero tolerance, which means there is nothing for the child to lose if the
punishment for some behavior, like having markers( may write on walls), is
the same as a felony.
I'm telling you. People are losing their minds. Does this school district
subscribe to "abstinence-only" sex ed, by any chance? I swear it's the
kids who are kept ignorant who make choices like these.
