You can't say that!

Our first graders can read about how Tommy has two daddies and that one family arrangement is just as good as another, but they can't say "sexy."

D'Avonte Meadows was suspended from Sable Elementary School in Aurora, Colorado for sexual harassment. D'Avonte is 6 years old. What did he do that was so awful?

He quoted a line from a song to one of his classmates: "I'm sexy and I know it." I don't know what we expect when companies bombard us with sex to sell their products, sit-coms are a continuous chain of sexual situations, music is full of sex, and even Disney movie characters spout off double entendres. This little boy is simply parroting what he daily hears. If we don't want our kids to talk about being sexy, perhaps we should begin to clean up our act in this country.

Does anybody, anywhere, have any common sense left?

"School suspends boy, 6, for 'sexy' comment." The Dallas Morning News; May 5, 2012; p. 7A.