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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]In kindergarten they had a full day that included a 20 minute nap time.   The boy next to my daughter kept poking her and touching her hair.   I told the teacher and she moved him away from her.

You need to notify the teacher.  No need to be hysterical and threaten the police like some people suggest.  The teacher can’t resolve the problem if he doesn’t know about it.  [/quote]

OP here. As I stated in my OP, I notified the principal and teacher. If there wasn't such a huge pattern of tolerated poor behavior at her school, I probably would've left the principal off the email. [/quote]

That’s too bad.   Definitely follow up.   Ask if they’ve been able to solve the problem.  I would stay away from [b]over the top hyperbole like calling it assault or in any way sexual[/b]. I would be polite but relentless about a resolution.    Good luck. [/quote]

A boy poking girls in the breast is sexual.  He's not poking girls in the arm, and he's not poking boys at all.  This is sexual assault, as much as you don't want there to be any attention brought to it.[/quote]

None of us know if he was poking her in the chest area or if it was sexual because we are getting second hand information. He’s putting his hands on her, that’s serious enough to warrant an investigation.  But if you go in half hysterical talking about sexual assault they might get defensive and claim you’re overreacting.

I think I described this before, when my daughter was 10 years old she was tiny, completely flat chested, four years away from puberty.  I got a call from the vice principal telling me that a boy was bothering her.  He would scream in the hallway about how “hot” she was.  He would slap her ass or touch it when she walked by.   She never told me anything.  The only thing I knew about him was he would our house over and over and I always said she wasn’t home.

The vice principal told me that another mother called about this boy harassing her daughter (my daughter’s friend).  During the investigation the vice principal interviewed a bunch of kids and  found out my daughter was the target not her friend.  So this was going on and I had no idea until the investigation was over.

I asked if there was anything the school could do to teach the girls what to do in these situations.  They said it was the end of the year, no time, they had to focus on him.   I was upset about that because these are little girls in elementary school and they don’t know how to respond like a 16 year old.  [/quote]

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