High School Boys Get Arrested For Slapping The Butts Of Their Female Classmates
Interrogated, arrested, cuffed and now facing the possibility of ten years in a juvenile detention center and registration on the sex offender’s list according to David Harsanyi:
The two boys tore down the hall of Patton Middle School after lunch, swatting the bottoms of girls as they ran — what some kids later said was a common form of greeting.
But bottom-slapping is against policy in McMinnville Public Schools. So a teacher’s aide sent the gawky seventh-graders to the office, where the vice principal and a police officer stationed at the school soon interrogated them.
Should these kids have been sent to the principal’s office? Absolutely. Should they get detention and/or suspension? I think so. Did they need to be treated like criminals simply for acting like a couple of immature teenage boys? Of course not.
This sort of overreaction is the reason why the prison population in this country is growing faster than the overall population.
