Thursday, March 15, 2007

WARNING: The following post includes graphic and crude language and may offend sensitive readers.

This morning one of the kids came up to me to tell me that one of his "friends" was saying inappropriate things to him (talking about what happens in porn movies). He also told me this talk was making him feel very uncomfortable. I told him that I didn't blame him at all for feeling uncomfortable. This kind of talk is totally inappropriate at school. I thanked him for telling me about this and assured him that I would take care of it immediately. At recess I had a little chat with the alleged harasser. He was adamant that he doesn't watch porn, he doesn't know anything about porn, what is porn? He had the total innocent look on his face. He's kind of a weird, creepy kid so I'm not sure if it was the truth or not. Probably not. So I decide to warn him (in a very serious tone). I told him that if he's talking about porn that's sexual harassment and that I'd have to kick him out of the school and I might have to send someone to his house to see if he has access to porn. He didn't like that at all. He listened and I'm sure he got my point. At lunch, his friend, the alleged harassee, told me that he needed to talk to me again. He had a very serious look on his face, he looked troubled. So of course I drop everything to listen. He told me that he doesn't like to "rat" out his friends, but he's upset that the alleged harasser said something really bad about me. My ears perked up, I was very curious, how could anyone say something bad about me? So I asked him what was said. He didn't want to tell me. I was thinking it must be really bad. After a few more probes, he told me that the alleged harasser said that he "fucking hates me." I told the alleged harassee kid that I'm sure there are a lot of people who hate me and that it doesn't really hurt my feelings if someone hates me. He was kind of shocked to hear that. I also told him that I appreciated that he cared enough about my feelings to tell me about this.

1 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Kids say the darndest things, don't they?

OMG, do red x's count as p*rn, too?

*worried*

8:11 PM  

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