I’m sure that by now you have probably heard about the six-year-old boy that got suspended from school for kissing his “girlfriend” on the hand.
Not only was he suspended—the child was charged was sexual harassment, forcing him to ask his mother what “sex” was.
For several decades our school administrators have been obsessed with not screwing up young people’s minds with any type of failure, whether it is involves failing grades on tests, failing to make cheerleader or the sports team. If one team loses—everyone gets a trophy.
The newest thing for liberal-run schools is they don’t want their little charges’ psyches messed up by being forced to use bathrooms that actually match the sex they were born with.
At the same time they are more than willing to smash a kid if the child does not seem to be falling in with the teacher’s idea of social justice.
So why do I get the idea that if the same little boy had kissed another little boy full on the mouth, the teachers and administrators would have been clapping their hands and getting the two boys to do it again so they could demonstrate for other students the power of inclusiveness and tolerance for others?
Several years ago I read a study that indicated that teachers graded students’ work differently when the papers were presented with the student’s name at the top and when the papers were presented to the teacher “blind”. The researcher assigned a number to the student in order that the teacher not have the ability to connect a known face to the work in order to prove his theory. The study showed plainly that teachers’ grading results were was directly tied to teachers’ opinion of the ability and likeability of the student—as defined by the teacher. It is a pretty safe bet that Hunter was not a favorite of this teacher.
Since then other studies have indicated teachers’ prejudice against poor children and even against handicapped children.
Many years ago, one of my sons enrolled in a high school typing class. At the end of every school day, he was full of excitement as he reported new highs in his speed and accuracy.
When the six-week report cards came out, he got a B-. He told me that every day the girl next to him got lower speed and accuracy on every one of her papers; so he did not know why he was graded down and she got an A+.
I decided to find out, so I contacted the teacher and sat down with her.
“It is a good thing to have a child excited about your class,” I explained. “Now it is like someone doused him with a barrel of ice water. This young man is material for typing competitions. Can you explain to me what is going on?”
In a highly nasal voice she whined, “Well, I don’t understand it. It is very unusual for a boy to have the manual dexterity to type.”
The next week he was out of paper, so I gave him a ream from my office. Although he typed the fastest in the room, she gave him a zero with a note to me that he used the wrong typing paper. When I held his past work against the text he failed, I could not tell any difference at all in the paper. The weight seemed the same and I could detect no difference in the whiteness of the paper. No one had ever mentioned the paper issue before, so I could only conclude he was being punished because I challenged her.
Shortly after that, the principal started harassing him. With almost a year and a half to graduation, he quit school and I did not object. They were killing his ambition and trying to dull his mind.
This story has a happy ending. My son went into the high tech business and has been highly placed in management in major companies including Dell. I expect his yearly income is at least quadruple those of the teacher and her principal. The important thing is not that they failed to recognize his intelligence and his skill—it is that they are were so committed to leveling the playing field, they resented his trying to pull away from the pack.
For the mother of Hunter Yelton: You hang in there, girl! My advice to you is to get your child out of public schools before they do a lot of damage to him. If that is not possible, you now know what you are up against. Try to move to a conservative area where teachers still teach and children are still taught personal responsibility and are allowed to excel. Find a school where basics in reading, writing, math and science are still priorities. If you need help finding such a place, contact me. Right now the trick is to minimize the damage they are doing to Hunter. Our thoughts and our prayers are with you. Stay in touch and let us know how Hunter is doing.
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