2006/03/29

8-year-old criminal of love!

An 8-year-old honor student is in big trouble for giving a note to a classmate.
The note said "I love you."
The second-grade boy was thrown out of his school in the quiet town of Lorain, Ohio.
His crime?
Sexual harassment and assault.
Using the love note as hard evidence, school officials then cooked up a physical-assault charge: They say the well-behaved little boy touched his little girlfriend's backside.
The parents, Frank and Tammy Johnson, say it's a bunch of baloney. The "emergency removal" of the now-humiliated little boy will scar him forever.
''It's an embarrassment to me and it's an embarrassment to him because he doesn't understand what's going on,'' she said.
''He started crying and he thinks he did something wrong,'' Johnson said of the love-note crime. ''He's a good kid and he's very, very shy. And now he's emotionally distraught.''
All four of the family's children are honor students. The little boy has been friends with the little girl for "a long time," mom Tammy said.
Worse, the whole "sexual harassment" charge came from an alleged incident in gym class, when several little boys were accused of playing the annoying children's game known as "Grab Ass."
Each of the accused second-grade boys was savagely interrogated, and when Johnson's son was put under the light, he broke down and admitted he liked the girl in question and had given her a sweet little love note ... weeks earlier.
A weeping little boy was forced to sign a confession before being tossed out of school. Where the form required a signature, the little boy's first name is awkwardly hand-printed.
But to the low-rent Nazis who run
Lorain's miserable schools, justice was served.
''It's our job to teach students at a young age that inappropriate behavior is unacceptable,'' Schnurr proudly told the
Morning Journal. ''The student did something wrong, admitted he did something wrong and received the proper discipline.''
"He added it is unfortunate that this discipline is not emphasized at the student's home," the paper reported.
As for the Johnson kids, they're all being yanked from Lorain's shameful little school district and will be enrolled in a neighboring school district where the officials aren't such hateful jackasses, the parents say.
"''I want them out of there before [the school system] does some damage," said the little boy's mom.

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