Third Graders Reportedly Have Oral Sex Under Desk, Teacher Fired For Not Noticing

An unnamed teacher at Tallulah Elementary School in Tallulah, La., has been fired after she failed to notice two third grade students allegedly having oral sex under a classroom table, the News-Star reports.

District Superintendent Lisa Wilmore told the paper the teacher was fired because the incident occurred under her watch.

"The principal felt that she was not monitoring the classroom adequately," Wilmore said, according to the News-Star. "The principal made a decision, and I supported the principal. We have to make sure we have people in these classrooms who are monitoring our students."

According to WBRZ, the district has also placed a different teacher on paid leave during an investigation of alleged substance abuse while on the job.

In a separate article, the News-Star reported that both students are now undergoing counseling, and that both teacher dismissals are a part of Wilmore's effort to "change the culture" of the district.

This isn't the first time activities like this have occurred in the classroom while a teacher was present. In February, two kindergarteners at PS 189 in Washington Heights, New York City allegedly took off their clothes and engaged in oral sex-like activities while under the teacher's watch.

One parent told the New York Post the school didn't immediately take responsibility for the incident.

"They were trying to say that my daughter was inviting these children to do this to her," the parent told the paper at the time. "Where were the adults?"

CORRECTION: A previous version of this article incorrectly identified WBRZ as a local television station in Tallulah, La. WBRZ is a local news station in Baton Rouge, La.

Comments

[KiwiEV]

03:43 AM on 02/17/2013

Hang the lousy PARENTS out to dry, not the teacher!
Welcome to the USA. Where it's always, always, always someone else's fault.

[Aarron Dixon]

07:28 PM on 12/11/2012

I think the teacher needs disciplined, to make sure she pays better attention in the future, but being busy and concentrating on your work while the class is doing busy work or some such shouldn't get her fired. That's just an overreaction.

[BigWillyG]

06:00 PM on 12/04/2012

How many times had this 3rd grader been held back if they are old enough to have sex?

[Jesse Derrick]

04:06 PM on 11/30/2012

i agree with the teacher being dissmissed suchactions in a school seting should not be allowed on school grounds the teacher did not do a good enoung job watching the kids if she had done her job and saw it and took good enough action then she would not be unemployed plus i think it is sick that this type of thing could happen on school campuses but i think from a certin time around or next to the age of sexual maturity that we teach childrean common decency for sexual activitys so they not not to do it.i know this will not stop minors from being active in sexual intercourse but they should have the for thought to know what they are doing and were they are doing it and to maintain an up most level of privecy on the matter of.though i understand being in 3rd grade they would know no better but that only proves that teaching common decency to minors is importent.i also think intercourse at such a young age is a very bad influence on minors i would be ok it it was 13 and up cus at lest they know what there doing thanks to sexual education but when it happens betweens minors in the 3rd grade i think it is very troubling

[YouthPolitics64]

01:29 AM on 11/25/2012

As a teenager, let me say that children know much more than anyone gives us credit for. We talked about sex in 2nd grade for God's sake. It may be outside influences such as the crap on TV or the parents who were a bit too loud last night, but people have a way of figuring these things out. As others have said, kids just feel down there and think it feels good, so why not invite another person in for the fun? They didn't know it was inappropriate. But I agree with the teacher being fired, I mean, they were having SEX lady.

[rexy640421]

06:49 PM on 03/05/2013

Hum.

I must have been dumb or something in 2nd grade, because I dont think I figured jack out, or else I must not remember it.

[mastercommentor223]

12:19 PM on 05/02/2013

i have to agree with you on that,,

[Sarkazmo]

03:35 AM on 10/27/2012

Unborn babies have been shown to rub their genitals in the womb. There have been little boys that touched themselves so much at a very young age that they actually damaged their penis from the constant manipulation. They do it because it feels good. If it didn't feel good then I doubt the human race would've survived. Sexuality is a part of us no matter what our age. Probably this child didn't have any clue that the behavior was unacceptable but only knew that it felt good. All these comments about how these children must've been abused and how they had to learn this behavior is ridiculous. To quote the character of Ian Malcolm from Jurassic Park: "Life finds a way."

[Ninalyn]

03:58 PM on 11/19/2012

Yup. A more human-appropriate response would be "Sally, Bill, we don't do those things in front of other people. Please go back to your seats" and then a word to the wise to the parents--who, in a perfect world, would understand what you just said, and not go hysterical.

Unfortunately, we live in Puritanical America, where anything that upsets our preconceived notions of how small children "should" behave is anathema.

[alxnick]

11:59 AM on 09/19/2012

** People have become pleasers of themselves and SEX is PLEASING. There is no stopping this at any age. We have tried to stop parts of it and have had no success. Sex is too good. Especially when your BROKE (economy). Only way to stop kids is to NOT LET THEM SEE or HEAR about it so often. Television is making a mess out of PEOPLE, it did this and is doing more. too much. ****Yes it did!*****

[alxnick]

11:58 AM on 09/19/2012

I am counselor not predator.What I saw and believe is what i will say.Exerts from my book .... #1) The best sex for most men is when she has a great body 2) she is a gymnast and can do pretzel stuff with her body. 3) She is fairly new to sex. Its #3 that will never go away ( the sounds of her actions cannot be duplicated or faked and men will never see it again after the 20's. The 16-21 yr old female will always be desired. So some will go to jail for it. 200 years ago teenagers married older men. marriages lasted most of life. Now these laws say thats wrong. That makes all forefathers PREDATORS, which isnt true. ****** From what I can see the worst person to marry your child is from age 16-29. They have the worst ability to handle it or dont yet have the ability to keep marriage going. Many will after they turn 30 or 40. Truth is age 30 male marrying 18 year old female works better than most marriages except for the over 40yr folks. I wanted to wait for my book to come out but I spilled stuff. Its the changes they are going through, decreased after 29. Until then adolescents are unpredictable even to themselves.Sorry to write lots, but it's true.***

[iowastate]

03:32 AM on 08/24/2012

kids copy what they see adults around them doing and why in heavens name would a third grade teacher be expected to be on the look out for that type of activity in their students?

they don't know what it is they just know are imitating reckless activity that should have been kept in private. I suspect it is someone's parents or other relative or 'friend' who should be in trouble in this instance.

[cosmos1922]

01:19 PM on 08/21/2012

i guess they did what they saw their parents do!

[kasa5051]

12:54 PM on 07/27/2012

Wow! I have read through all these video and so far all I see R WHITE teacher commiting these abusives crimes even the mens. Do the state Superintent do background checks before letting these so call teacher around innsocent children.

[rexy640421]

06:50 PM on 03/05/2013

WHAT CRIME? There was no crime......

[wellingtonluis]

02:21 AM on 05/28/2012

Can't believe third graders can do such things.
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[JoltBillRandal]

04:32 PM on 08/21/2012

Why not? Imature does not mean non-existent.

[femanist]

09:58 PM on 05/19/2012

I see a lot of people here blaming culture, blaming parents, blaming teachers, blaming the internet, many certain that abuse factored in somewhere. Most everyone seems to be agreeing that children couldn't possibly figure out oral sex.

None of this is true. I have been very lucky in my life in that I've had very candid conversations with many people about sex and sexuality.

I know a man who discovered oral sex at age 10, with his (male) best friend. They were having a sleepover and they got talking about their penises and how funny it was that no adult would tell them anything about them, and figured out that mouth-on-genital contact felt good. His parents were strict Republican Christians and he grew up in rural Virginia with strictly controlled internet even at a time when the Internet was young and rarely used for entertainment.

I also know a women who started masturbating at age 8. She went through her youth between age 8 and 13 masturbating, and having no idea what she was doing and thinking that there was something wrong with her until a (female) friend of hers and she had a conversation at 13, realized they'd both had the same experience, and looked it up online, only then getting a clue what sex was. Nobody ever gave her a birds-and-bees talk and she only learned about STDs from another friend's passed-along birds and bees talk at 15.

[iowastate]

03:39 AM on 08/24/2012

kids have been "playing house/mommies and daddies" ever since children were invented so there really is nothing new - it is just that now with the prevalence of cell phones it is on the internet the next day so everyone in the world can take a look and talk about how much worse things are these days.
Like teachers didn't have beer parties for students in our parents time, grandparents time and before. Socrates griped about the kids and the next generation and those kids complained about the parents...... things never change.

and i'm sure they all played house

[ladyrider1958az]

01:09 PM on 04/27/2012

She asks "Where were the adults?" and I agree, where ARE the adults? Meaning the PARENTS! She seems to be in a bit of denial here that her sweet little Janey didn't actually bring this on herself. Amazing that parents yell to high heaven if the schools discipline their little angels but the second they don't take responsibility for them then they yell about that too. Get a clue here parents, a teach isn't a babysitter. You can't have it both ways. Should the teacher have noticed? Yes. Was she too busy? Probably. Was this the teachers fault? NO !!! Was it the parents fault? ABSOLUTELY!!!!

[syntax facit saltum]

03:11 PM on 05/12/2012

These children are so young and this is not a normal part of 3rd grade childhood. The aggressors were almost certainly victims of sexual abuse to know about this kind of thing at a stage of development where there is not the norm developmentally. This is almost certainly acting out and a cry for help. The teacher should have protected a child from becoming a victim.

[Kimiko Austin-Rijs]

07:26 AM on 07/28/2012

You would be shocked at what is normal for children their ages.

[Renee Robinson]

05:13 PM on 04/19/2012

We as parents, are very busy and it seems there isn't enough time in a day but as a parent I never let my child on the internet unless she is on my laptop in the kitchen or living room where there is always someone in the room while she is on. There is no t.v in her room. She watches t.v in the family room. I know with today technology. children can bring up a web site in a second and see and read just about anything and those who don't have the internet has friends that does. Parents seem to place their children in front of t.vs and computers to get them out of their hair for the time being. As for the teacher. She /He needs to be fired for not doing their job in the first place. It use to be if a child does something bad. It was from bad up bringing or directed as the parents fault but it seems that kids don't listen to their parents any more they listen to their friends. Its very sad.. :0(