Daily News<\/a><\/em>, two sixth-grade girls had a crush on a sixth-grade boy. On the playground during a physical education class, they began arguing in front of their friends about which one of them loved him the most. According to witnesses, the boy in question was aware that he was the object of both girls’ affection and basking in the attention as he climbed on the monkey bars.<\/p>\nSuddenly, one of the girls decided to prove she was his one-and-only. She jumped up and gave him a kiss. Witnesses do not agree whether or not he kissed her back. However, it caused quite a sensation on the playground among their gawking classmates — particularly the crowd of girls who had been taking in the romantic drama.<\/p>\n
A teacher on playground duty reported the kiss on the monkey bars to Assistant Principal Haring.<\/p>\n
Haring reportedly feared it was a “possible sex crime” and that school regulations required that such an assault be reported. She called social workers at the Florida Department of Children and Families. They said the call came in on their sex-abuse hotline, but according to DFC spokesperson\u00a0Terri Durdaller, “It did not fit our criteria.”\u00a0Sheriff’s Deputies responded, talked\u00a0with teachers and took no action.<\/p>\n
Apparently stealing a kiss is not against the law in Florida —\u00a0particularly among children.<\/p>\n
Deputies “went ahead and took a report,” said Sgt. Eller.<\/p>\n
Local reaction has been predictable.<\/p>\n
“Whatever happened to common senses?” demanded one parent.<\/p>\n
The incident has even made the British tabloids. Officials have declined to name the 12-year-olds publicly — although every 12-year-old girl in Naples knows exactly who the kissing couple was.<\/p>\n
“It’s all so much foolishness — and one more reason the public is losing confidence in the education system.\u00a0A kiss between 12-year-olds, I would say is relatively harmless,” parent John McDaniel told the Daily Mail<\/a><\/em>‘s Paul McDonald, who\u00a0quoted another parent saying: “Principal Margaret Ann Haring needs to be fired immediately.\u00a0It is pretty obvious she is out of touch and clueless. Two little kids kissing is a sex act? What an idiot.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In what would seem to be political correctness gone mad, an elementary school assistant principal called police after a 12-year-old boy and girl were caught kissing on a Florida playground. The school administrator had called state child abuse officials first, who told her that sixth graders exchanging their first kiss wasn’t something they would respond…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":270,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fbia_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[2217,1852,2201],"class_list":["post-9695","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-education","tag-lack-of-confidence-in-the-school-system","tag-news"],"yoast_head":"\n
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