Six year old baby suspended from school for singing I'm sexy and I know it

[bigdarryl]

This country is getting more fucked up by the day http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/05/08/first-grader-suspended-for-singing-lmfaos-sexy-and-i-know-it/

[HiPointDem]

1. yeah, it's fucked when the msm publishes a steady stream of articles designed to give people

the impression that public schools are black holes of out-of-control racism and political correctness.

[Enrique]

2. good poiint

I was going to comment on this but then I saw your comment and i think you're right. Why is a 6-year-old's suspension news? Are schools all over the country going to have to defend even the most mundane decisions in the national media?

[Jennicut]

3. I just talked about this with my 7 year old daughter the other day.

A lot of kids in her school know the song (it was all over the radio at one point) but have been told it is inappropriate to sing it in school. That being said, most kids that age have no clue about what "sexy" even is. Suspension is so overboard it is ridiculous.

[4th law of robotics]

4. A bit more to it than that

His mom says D'Avonte got in trouble for saying the same line to the same girl last month (that time, booty shaking was apparently involved) and the assistant principal spoke to him.

Seems he's been harassing this girl for some time.

[MattBaggins]

5. Why is this fucked up?

How many times was the child told to stop singing this completely inappropriate song before being punished? There isn't enough info out on how many times he had displayed such behavior.

If the child was doing the "wiggle wiggle wiggle" part and had been told to stop then a suspension may have just been what he needed.

That song is a piece of crap and 1st graders should not be singing it.

On Edit: The writer of the article is a moron. He lists the video of "I'm Elmo and I know it" as coming from PBS. He actually thinks PBS and Sesame Street made that Parody?

The OP calls a 6 year old a baby and the mom calls him an adolescent...

[Pisces]

10. Oh yes because telling a 6 yr old 1 times to knock it off is all it takes. Your post is a joke. If

other kids were laughing this kid would sing the song to kingdom come. 6 yrs olds don't always have control of themselves
especially boys that like to be call clowns.

[MattBaggins]

17. Which is the problem here that we don't have enough info

but that song has the whole "wiggle" part. If the boys are thrusting their groins at people they should be suspended if they won't listen. My own kids know that fracking damn song as well as all their friends and trust me the "wiggle" part is what the boys find so funny. It is a fact that kids are being exposed to more sexual content these days and teaching them what is appropriate is crucial.

I wish we had the full story but i don't think suspension may have been so out of line. Yes boys want to be boys but there are lines they can not cross.

[Speck Tater]

6. We liberals push for political correctness and respect for females...

And then get all bent out of shape when what we asked for actually starts to happen.

Go figure.

Some people you can't satisfy.

[Gold Metal Flake]

7. Six year old baby?

[jp11]

18. I'm more concerned about a six year old baby than I am that it sang a song or that song.

Babies shouldn't be capable of singing songs it just ain't right, it ain't right is all!

[Lint Head]

8. Do most a six year olds even understand what the words sex and sexy mean?

Sounds like an opportunity to educate rather than punish.

[surrealAmerican]

9. He was teasing one of his classmates.

The particular song is irrelevant. He had been warned to stop teasing the other child on a prior occasion, too.

[Pisces]

11. So what, kids tease each other and it takes more than 1 time of telling a 6 yr old something for the

behavior to change. What kind of angelic children did you people have????

[surrealAmerican]

12. He got suspended because he didn't stop.

This was not the first time. It sounds somewhat appropriate. The other child needs to be safe at school, too. Maybe when he comes back to school, he will understand that he needs to respect his classmates a little more.

[Pisces]

15. Safe from singing a song???? Sorry much ado about nothing.

[eridani]

14. You mean that kids bully each other

Bullying needs to be nipped in the bud, period.

[Canuckistanian]

13. Six year olds are not "babies"

Some of them are old enough to be in first grade.

That said, the suspension is beyond ridiculous.

[ladywnch]

16. DITTO

[Raine]

19. Six MONTH olds are babies, six year old are not

I know there's a bigger point but it gets minimized and not taken serioulsy when you call a 6 year old a "baby"!