9 - YEAR-OLD BOY SUSPENDED FOR CALLING TEACHER 'CUTE'

A nine-year-old North Carolina boy has been suspended from school for telling his teacher she was cute. Chiquita Lockett, the boy’s mother, was called into the principal’s office at Brookside Elementary, because her son committed an act of “sexual harassment.”

Officially, the boy was suspended for “inappropriate behavior” after making “inappropriate statements;” stated a spokeswoman for the school district.

Outraged by the overly exuberant penalty for stating the teacher was cute; Lockett stated; “it’s not like he went up to the woman and tried to grab her or touch her in a sexual way. So why would he be suspended for two days?”

The boy’s suspension came on the heels of a Massachusetts elementary school investigation of sexual harassment. A boy in that school struck another boy in the groin. That child was only seven years old and his mother states he was only trying to defend himself.