1st-Grade Sexual Harassment

(Brockton, Massachusetts) This story is absolutely ridiculous.

From TheBostonChannel.com:

A Brockton first-grader was suspended from school for three days last month after school officials said that he sexually harassed a girl in his class.

NewsCenter 5's Jim Boyd reported Tuesday that officials at the Downey Elementary School called the boy's mother, Berthena Dorinvil, on Jan. 30, and asked her to pick up her child from the school. Dorinvil said that officials told her that her son was being suspended for sexually harassing a 6-year-old female classmate.

"My son told me that the girl touched him first, so he touched her back," Dorinvil said. "I was shocked. I was crying. I was out of control," Dorinvil said.

In a statement which was obviously misinterpreted, the school superintendent reportedly said something about allegations of sexual harassment having to be taken seriously. In reality, I'm sure the superintendent meant, "I'm exceedingly incompetent and in dire need of adult supervision. Please fire my sorry ass."