Middle School Students Caught In Sex Act In Class

[GraceAbounds]

Officials: Middle School Students Caught In Sex Act In Class

By Carl Willis

POSTED: 12:57 pm CDT October 6, 2007
UPDATED: 1:13 pm CDT October 6, 2007

HOUSTON -- Some parents in Fort Bend County are outraged after their children said they witnessed a pair of eighth-graders engaged in a sex act, right in the middle of class.Parents told KPRC Local 2 that they received the unsettling news about an incident at Crockett Middle School in a letter that went home on Friday."My mouth flew open when you told me just a few minutes ago," Lubergha Munson said. "I didn't expect you to say anything like that. I thought you were going to say they were fighting or something."

The principal sent letters home with some students explaining a situation that was reported to campus administrators last week.The principal reported that the students, a boy and a girl, made inappropriate sexual contact with each other while other students watched.That was a shock for Tom Ray, who has a 14-year-old daughter."To me there are a host of problems and I think it starts at home," Ray said.

In the letter, Principal Corliss Rogers said that there was an investigation and that both students received appropriate disciplinary action.The letter does not say where the teacher was at the time.However, some concerned parents told the station that their children said the sex act happened once the teacher stepped out of the classroom.

"I think there should be more supervision. If that's the case and they have enough time to do such things, obviously there's not people there to supervise them," Crockett parent Gerry Banez said. "That's real disheartening."

What's also disheartening for some parents was the amount of time it took for the information to get to them. It's been more than a week since the incident happened."

I would expect the parent to at least have a call from the principal if not the day at least the next morning. I don't believe there's any excuse why that wouldn't happen," Ray said.

Still, some parents said it all boils down to a lack of respect.

"No respect for authority, no respect for themselves, (and) not for the other kids in the classroom," Munson said.Campus and district counselors have talked with the students who were in the class and will be available in the future if those students need to talk.

 

[Maritxu]

I can't imagine what they were doing.
However I do remember when I was their age some boys in my school played with themselves during class. I couldn't understand the reason.

 

[GraceAbounds]

Stuff like this didn't happen when I was in school.

Kissing, holding hands was the extent of it.

It is crap like this that irritates the crap out of me when it comes to the public school system.

 

[Boomer]

Stuff like this didn't happen when I was in school.

Kissing, holding hands was the extent of it.

It is crap like this that irritates the crap out of me when it comes to the public school system.

I believe the parents would be the ones to blame. I never would have done that in class. My momma would tan my hide.

 

[Tim]

I believe the parents would be the ones to blame. I never would have done that in class. My momma would tan my hide.

I agree 100% Boomer. It doesn't have anything to do with the public schools.

So the teacher left the kids unattended for a few minutes. How many of us can remember the same thing happening to us? I can remember plenty of times where a teacher had to step out of the classroom. We didn't erupt into a adolescent orgy.

 

[GraceAbounds]

I believe the parents would be the ones to blame. I never would have done that in class. My momma would tan my hide.

I'm not dismissing the parents role in teaching their kids proper behavior. But when I drop my child off at school, I have handed my child over to the school's 'care and supervision'. Their care and supervision is severely lacking if this is what is going on under their 'watch'.

 

[Boomer]

Like Tim said, that shit never crossed my mind when the teacher stepped out. I would throw some shit and talk some mess, but I never thought about gettin some head.

 

[Tim]

I'm not dismissing the parents role in teaching their kids proper behavior. But when I drop my child off at school, I have handed my child over to the school's 'care and supervision'. Their care and supervision is severely lacking if this is what is going on under their 'watch'.

I understand that, but you cannot expect 100% supervision when it comes to kids. As a parent you should know that, because if 100% supervision were possible, our own kids would never scrape their knee or get a cut.

Would this story have been any different if they were caught in the stairwell having sex? You can't watch all the children all the time. I think the school systems do a great job taking care of our kids. For the millions of kids they watch everyday there are surprisingly very few stories like this.

 

[Thebest]

They can't wait until they're out of school to do crap like that? :willy_nilly:

 

[Silious950]

Even at the craziest of my hormones in High School, I just thanked God for making our minds have the capacity to invent Binders to block unexpected "surprises". I never thought of doing it right there... Damn kids these days are starting out young..

 

[GraceAbounds]

For the millions of kids they watch everyday there are surprisingly very few stories like this.

It seems like everyday I'm reading in the news about kids getting shot, stabbed, kids having sex in school, kids doing drugs in school. etc. It is disturbing to think that is the environment my kid is being dropped off in for an education.

I don't like putting my children in an environment that seems unsafe or immoral.

We have battled this dilemma in our family by sending our kids to private schools and traditional schools that excel academically and don't have these problems. I contribute the success of these schools to their strict guidelines, rules, dress code, supervision practices, and their ability to be selective as to what kids go to the school based on their behavior and academic record.

We tried a public school, the stories my son told me of kids cussing, smoking, getting into fights, and talking about doing drugs and having sex were upsetting to him and to us. And this was when he was in the FOURTH GRADE. Times have changed from when I was in school and not for the better when it comes to our children's education system.

 

[Boomer]

Your son got picked on didnt he?

 

[GraceAbounds]

Your son got picked on didnt he?

No. He is the kid that got in trouble for sticking up for the kids that did get picked on though.

 

[Peter Parka]

It's just one of those thinks the happen. Ok, when I was at school I never saw it happen in the classroom but it was always going on behind the bikesheds, in the town park where my school was or somewhere else. It's down to the parents to teach good morals and behaviour as far as I'm concerned, though kids will still do stuff like this sometimes whatever you teach them and there wasn't much else the school could have done.

 

[HisHoliness]

I find it odd that people are appalled by what these kids did. They are getting hit from all sides with adult material at a younger and younger age. And while good parenting and learning environments can help, it still can't protect a student from the influence of other kids. Honestly, there is no decent way to curtail exposure to that kind of material any more.

And I'm not convinced that private schools have less of this going on than public schools. I went to a private school for 13 years and I've pretty much seen it all. Weapons brought on campus, kids doing coke in the bathrooms, swearing -- all while conforming to the dress code.

Children are trying to grow up fast. I know when I was younger, I had that same mentality. With the ready availability of adult topics, one doesn't have to search deep to encounter them. Just turn on the TV.

I think what some children don't understand is that dealing with adult situations doesn't make you an adult. It's how you deal with them. Sex is an adult topic, but having sex in class is juvenile.

 

[GraceAbounds]

I'm not surprised at what the kids did. It irritates me that it happened in school that people don't seem to mind the environment their children are in.

As a parent you can and should research the schools (public and private), like I did, and find out where this kind of crap isn't going on or at least is not a regular occurrence.

I think what some children don't understand is that dealing with adult situations doesn't make you an adult. It's how you deal with them. Sex is an adult topic, but having sex in class is juvenile.

Bingo!

This is what I teach my kids. I also don't put my children in adult situations where they would then be faced to make adult decisions that they are not equipped to make yet.

Everywhere we go I get compliments from strangers on how well behaved my children are and how nice it is to see kids not acting unruly in public, using their manners, and respecting their parents and others. God bless their little souls, all of them get excellent grades, play musical instruments, are in sports, and also do charity work. They are happy kids with beautiful personalities.

So it is irritating for me as a parent having to constantly battle the bad influences of TV, other kids, and yes the bad influences of what they are around, see, and hear in school as well. It just, ugh! IRRITATES ME!

 

[Maritxu]

I think it's part the parents fault, part the school's fault. I think it's a problem of maturity too. They must knoiw that there are places for everything and that there is something called respect towards the other people around.