Students have been caught making spice racks under the bleachers
"Plays too well with others" - It's no secret that in spring a young man's fancy lightly turns to thoughts of love. The problem is, even if you stretch your definition of 'young man' to include a sixth grader, and even if your take on love encompasses having sex in front of ten of your schoolmates, there's no way that last November counts as 'spring'. Last November is when two students at Raymond Park Middle School in Indiana were caught rounding home plate during shop class. Inquiring bloggers would like to know why the school authorities only just got around to mentioning the incident to the general public.
According to "a disturbed resident" and courtesy of the local NBC affiliate:
"...during school hours in a classroom with an experienced teacher present, two sixth graders completed the act of intercourse...at least ten students were witnesses. No disciplinary actions were taken against the teacher... All teachers were told to keep quiet."
And all teachers did, thus putting the icing on this triple-layer shame-cake. And since sharing is an important value for kids to learn in school (in addition to such necessary shop class skills as screwing, nailing, pounding, drilling, etc.), let's dish out a piece to everybody involved who failed to meet the standards of basic human decency which might be reasonably expected of them:
y The parents - Little Bobby and Little Suzie didn't just spontaneously decide to make the beast with two adolescent backs because she checked the 'I like you' box on the note he passed her during English. There are issues at work here, and issues upon issues.
y The teacher - Surely a level of oversight adequate for the supervision of children handling dangerous tools would have sufficed to detect them handling each other.
y The school - Reasonable people can disagree about what exactly the school should have done - but it should probably have fallen into the category of 'something'.
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