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12-Year-Old Suspended From Worcester Middle School for Hugging Gym Teacher
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This situation would've been resolved via verbal warning if it was a white kid by the way. She would've said, don't hug me thats inappropriate, if you do that again i'm sending you to the principles office, and that would've been the end of the situation. Instead they kick him out of school for 2 weeks?
lil breh should have made sure she was ready for it...
A mother is fighting to remove a suspension from the record of her son, who she said was removed from school for four days last month because he hugged his female gym teacher during class. Julie Orozco, who has been the boy’s foster parent since March, said he is a seventh-grader at Forest Grove Middle School. On Sept. 27 the gym class was playing dodgeball when the teacher gave her son a brief time out for “goofing off” with his friends, she said; however, he didn’t want to leave the game.
According to Orozco, the boy approached the teacher, put his arms around her, and said, “Please let me stay in the game.” He would later describe it as a joke in his own written account, she said. Orozco says the teacher resisted the hug, but that the class went on normally afterward. However, when her son went to his next class, he was called to the main office and told he would be punished for the incident, she said.
In a meeting with Superintendent Maureen Binienda and other district officials on Friday morning, Orozco said, she was specifically told the hug was too “tight, forceful and aggressive,” and that a 12-year-old should have known it was inappropriate.
“Their (the school’s) story seems to constantly evolve to match what he’s being accused of,” she said, adding that the school initially described the encounter as just a hug, without that more negative description. “But not my son’s – his story has been consistent since day one.”
Binienda communicated through her office on Friday that she had no comment on Orozco’s allegations. The boy was initially given a 10-day suspension, but Orozco said she was able to negotiate the punishment down to four days out of school. The recorded offense was also eventually downgraded from assault on staff to a general disruption of school, she said. But Orozco believes her son, who despite his difficult upbringing has had good grades and gotten into no trouble at Forest Grove otherwise, she said, shouldn’t have any mark on his record from the incident. “It makes him extremely vulnerable,” she said.
She also thinks the boy’s race – he is black, while the teacher is white, she said – might have been a factor in the school’s interpretation of the hug and subsequent punishment.
“I absolutely do,” she said, alleging he was told by a school administrator after the incident his hug even could be construed as sexual harassment.
Orozco acknowledged her son had a record of principal visits at his last school, Elm Park Community School.But she said that given the boy’s unstable home life at the time that behavior was explainable. She also argued that considering the district’s recent focus on emotional/social learning – the School Department has made a concerted effort to promote trauma-sensitive education in the last couple years – her son’s situation should have been an opportunity to teach, rather than punish him.
The ordeal has been tough on the boy, she said. When she picked him up at school the day of the incident, “when he saw me, he just started crying,” she said.
“The thing he kept saying (afterward) was, ‘I’m just so confused,’ ” she said. ” ‘If she didn’t want me to hug her, why didn’t she tell me that?’ ”
knew the child was black...if it were a white child it’d be a photo in the school yearbook
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An over reaction like this... of course the kid is black
thats sum corny shyt 
she didnt even tell him it was wrong, just ran off to the principal. why even be a teacher if you cant address issues with your student directly?
she didnt even tell him it was wrong, just ran off to the principal. why even be a teacher if you cant address issues with your student directly?
He woulda been better off saying fukk you bytch instead of trying to be. Smart ass and hug her after she tried to sit him out..he would got suspended either way
wow that’s wild but more than likely true smh...would’ve maybe gotten a few days ISS maybe (OSS) if he’d done that