When will this stop?
How much more cotton wool do we intend to wrap around these teenagers?
We currently have a serious problem with suicidal teenagers and university students.
We need to be teaching them to be more resilient to stuff, not wrapping more and more layers of cotton wool around them. As younger children they're kept indoors instead of being allowed to ‘play out’, they have far fewer opportunities to sort out their own battles & friendships.
As many have said, what this girl said was the equivalent of ‘Drop dead’ ‘Go jump off a bridge’ or ‘Go to hell’...NONE of them are literal.
It’s not a ‘sustained attack’ to tell some stupid lad sending shite like that to KYS any more than it is to say ‘Drop dead’
I really do worry for them.
Also, why jump to a 3 day suspension? Who does that benefit? Why not say to her that KYS is not acceptable on the school email system. It doesn’t sound like she’s a constant trouble maker and she wasn’t the one instigating it
I also think he should have been told not to do it. End of.
The whole ‘it’s sexual harassment’ is a load of old tosh as well. It’s a couple of teenagers, acting like teenagers have acted since the beginning of time. Simply being told to ‘pack it in’ takes two seconds, we do NOT need this drama. Sort out the REAL ISSUES. The kids who are setting up hate campaigns against other kids. Over reacting to minor crap, does not make real issues go away.