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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Boys don't hit girls and if my boys see a bigger boy hitting a girl they need to try and defend the girl. That's what my boys have heard from the time they were little. Of course gender matters. If it were my boy he would be in big trouble. If I heard that a boy in my son's grade hit a smaller girl I wouldn't want my boy ever hanging around him.[/quote]

The sexism in this thread is appalling- against both boys and girls.

How do people like the PP not see that their stance essentially advocates that boys only treat other boys like normal humans, and girls are to be treated like a special, lesser category?

These are five year olds. There is no difference in bodily strength. I think harassment/bullying should of course be handled through nonviolent methods, but when it is ongoing and attempting to get the help of the teacher fails (as it did for OP's son), it makes absolutely no sense for the the kid to just stand there and take it til the girl knocks him out simply because they are of different sexes.

The OP should sit down with her son and talk to him about strategies for handling physical harassment from kids, but it shouldn't differ based on sex. This is how sexism takes route. I hope the people in this thread who are advocating for blanket policies based on sex don't also complain about women being underrepresented in STEM or sexism in the workplace. After all, it's no surprise that if this is how you treat kids in kindergarten, these boys will grow up to be men who think delicate women don't belong in the boardroom and the girls will grow up to think engineering isn't for them.[/quote]

That's pretty funny.  I am a female health scientist directly reporting to another female scientist, and I absolutely believe in teaching my sons never to hit a lady.  (None of this means the girl here shouldn't be punished, she absolutely should.)[/quote]

Men should never hit a lady, not even when the man in question is a scrawny five year old who's being repeatedly choked by a lady, who's actually also a five year old. Ladies belong in the home, not the work place. Men should be the breadwinner. Ladies should stick to nurturing occupations that leave plenty of opportunity for them to work around their husbands' more important careers.[/quote]

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