A nine year-old boy received a two-day suspension for telling his friend his fourth grade teacher was cute.

“I was talking to my friend and I said Miss Taylor was cute, that’s all I said.”

Emanyea Lockett, a student at Brookside Elementary in Gastonia, North Carolina, was overheard by a substitute teacher who was outside the classroom. The substitute then reported the child’s statement to the principal, Jerry Bostic. Bostic reportedly suspended Emanyea because the he felt the statement violated the schools policy on sexual harassment. School officials refused to comment on the incident due to confidentiality issues, but Fox News reports that a district spokeswoman said the nine year old was suspended for “inappropriate behavior” after making “inappropriate statements.”

According to the schools website, “Sexual harassment means and includes any unwelcome sexual advances, requests for sexual favors and any other non-consensual and/or offensive verbal or physical contact of a sexual nature between an employee and a student or between students…”

Chiquita Lockett, Emanyea’s mother, feels the school went to far in punishing her son. “It’s not like he went up to the woman and tried to grab her in a sexual way,” she told reporters. “Why would he be suspended for two days?”

According to his mother, Emanyea has since returned to school. But the furor over the suspension is just beginning. Many people are angry that the young boy was suspended for ‘sexual harassment’, even though the fourth grader didn’t (and shouldn’t) know what that is.

Here’s Fox and Friends take on the story from YouTube:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2FZcas0otb0

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