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The assistant superintendent of this school apparently is a closet pedo. What a sick bastard !
SURPRISE, Ariz. — An assistant superintendent for the Dysart Unified School District defends calling a kindergartner’s actions “sexual misconduct.”

Five-year-old Eric Lopez pulled his pants down on the playground at Ashton Ranch Elementary School last Spring and received a punishment of detention for what the school has deemed sexual misconduct.

Eric now has a note that will remain in his permanent file for the duration he attends Dysart schools. His mother was not notified of the incident or the note her son signed in the assistant principal’s office until after the fact.

District policy states that a parent does not have to be present for a disciplinary meeting unless the student requests his or her parent.

“He did not know that he could ask for me,” said Eric’s mother, Erica Martinez “He’s 5.”

Martinez has been fighting for two months to have the sexual misconduct label removed from her son’s file, saying Eric’s actions were not sexual in any way. So far, the district has denied her appeal.

Assistant Superintendent Jim Dean says the district follows strict guidelines and definitions set by both the state and federal agencies about what constitutes a sexual offense.

“Our school district uses consistent language for disciplinary infractions in order to provide clarity and track discipline data accurately,” Dean said in a written statement.

A state of Arizona initiative called AZ SAFE helps provide clarification to districts to assist them with the collection of information.

Under its definitions for sexual offenses, the state recommends that every district take into account the age and maturity of a student before placing their actions in the sexual offense category.

Martinez does not believe the Dysart Unified School District took her son’s age into account when they labeled his “depantsing.”

Dean says the district does not focus on labels when disciplining students.

“Even though the discipline labels are consistently used and the discipline form is consistent from grades K-12 to ensure all legal mandates are met, the discussion the administrator has about a situation and consequences are age appropriate,” Dean said. “The discussion with a kindergarten student is focused on the specific action, not on the label that is used for classifying the infraction.”

Dean says Martinez will now be allowed to provide a rebuttal to the report in Eric’s permanent file so she can have her displeasure with the decision on record.

The school officials here must be run by Stepford Wives-style robots because they do not display human reason or mercy in any shape or form and only obey what their bureaucratic pieces of paper tell them. I have seen and have been told from others of the ways they run the school, more interested in ruining children’s lives than educating them or giving them proper discipline fit for an actual child. A 6-year-old kid ran around with scissors and the robot overlords convicted him with “Attempted Assault with a Deadly Weapon.” Two other children, five and seven, were sniffing crayons and passing them to each other when they were tagged with “Possession, Distribution and Abuse of Drug Paraphernalia” on their school records. During a kid’s birthday with his friends they were singing “Happy Birthday” when they all were charged with several counts of Copyright Infringement. Supposedly almost a dozen children had marked on their school records Assault and Battery when lightly pushing other children down slides, kids on swings, and tossing sand at each other. I cannot verify this but I wouldn’t be surprised. Most recently I’ve heard a 5-year-old child was charged with “Sexual Misconduct” after he pulled his pants down, seemingly at the duress of other children. I had pulled my own kids out a good while ago after being informed about all this madness (you know there’s something wrong when your child tells you they were watching the animated movie Animal Farm one day and afterward the teacher ingrained them with the lesson that the pigs were the righteous heroes of the story). I see now the madness hasn’t ended. What a joke of a school. I hope these school administrators and officials are caught doing something terrible, like manslaughter while driving drunk, running drug rings, accused of rape or first-degree murder, maybe even touching a child (that wouldn’t surprise me) and get thrown into the slammer for a long time to come. Maybe then they will learn their lesson and the people who replace them will bring some sanity back to the school and our crumbling education system and its insane “Zero Tolerance” system.