"Mother of girl involved in 'kissing' discipline speaks out"

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395. We don't know because of the focus.

The focus has been on the boy and his mother because they got out in front of the media first. I don't give the mother of the boy much credibility for that alone, that she deliberately misstated things, sought to embarrass the school, and brought everyone's attention to her poor little "lovelorn" son and how awful it was for him not to be able to kiss this girl in school.

The original label of this as sexual harassment indicates this was unwanted and that it made the girl uncomfortable. You don't know if she didn't say anything to the teacher or not. And if she didn't, maybe the little girl was unsure how to react. Maybe, unlike this boy, she knew she should mind her manners in school and she thought she would get in trouble for pushing back at his and the other boy's attentions. My girls were the same way, although they were told in no uncertain terms we'd back them up.

I don't see where you got that the mother had a spot of difficulty convincing her daughter that she was not supposed to like it out of the article quoted above. If she was uncomfortable, it was likely because she didn't expect her daughter to have to deal with this sort of harassment this early in her life and hadn't yet prepared her for pushy males. She said she had to coach her how to deal with unwanted attention and touching and to avoid him when possible. What I got from that was that the girl didn't like it, her mother tried to teach her how to avoid the unwanted touching but that that hadn't worked because the little boy was aggressive and thought his needs and wants were more important than hers, and he wouldn't take no for an answer.