Want to bet this would not have happened if the note was directed toward another boy?
A 9-year-old Florida boy could face sexual harassment charges for penning love notes to a girl in his class, his furious mother said.
The tiny admirer gushed about his crush, telling her she’s “pretty and cute” while boldly revealing his feelings for her in the handwritten loose-leaf letter, ABC Action News reported.
“I like you,” the Tampa fourth grader in the Hillsborough County Public Schools district wrote inside a heart drawing. “I like your hair because it is not sloppy. I like your eyes because they sparkle like diamonds.”
The romantic proclamations landed the little boy in the principal’s office, where school officials threatened they’d get authorities to slap him with sexual harassment charges, according to ABC.
They said his pining was inappropriate and came in several “unwanted” letters.
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O_o;;
*checks for signs of being in a different universe…*
Drat, same one.
*starts scanning for a saner universe*
A bearded Spock may be the best-case scenario.
Greetings:
And if he had sent it to another boy, he would have been a Hero of the Revolution, no ???
Did anyone ask the girl if it upset her?
Whatever happened to the notion of just saying “No, thank you,” if you didn’t want the attention, and then singing the “I’m too sexy for my shirt” song?
The new normal is to demonize all normal male behavior.
Shakespeare throw in stocks for penning Sonnets. Shut up Will! Just shut up!
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If he’d just stuck to The Agenda and written this to a little boy in his class, like he was supposed to, this would not have been a problem…
Sdferr wrote: Shakespeare throw in stocks….
Actually, SD, if your intention was to ‘get with’ the modern way of speaking, the original spelling was correct – as with, say, ‘I seen him run’.
Drives me, with apologies to Ms EBL, batshit crazy.
Shoot me now.
[And don’t get me started on ‘diff’rent’ or ‘did’ent’.
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I meant “thrown” as a past tense use, is all. The typo buggered that. How “throw” would convey my intention is beyond my ken.