D'Avonte Meadows, Colorado First Grader, Suspended For Singing 'I'm Sexy And I Know It' Lyrics

A Colorado first grader was suspended for singing a LMFAO lyric this week

A Colorado first grader was suspended from school after singing the LMFAO song, "I'm Sexy And I Know It," 7 News reports.

Six-year-old D'Avonte Meadows, a boy, was suspended for three days from Aurora Elementary School after singing a line from the song to a female student while standing in a school lunch line, according to ABC News.

Meadows' mother told 7 News that she believes the child's suspension is not a case of sexual harassment.

"I could understand if he was fondling her, looking up her skirt, trying to look in her shirt. That, to me, is sexual harassment," Stephanie Meadows, D'Avonte’s mother told 7 News. "I'm just, I'm floored. They're going to look at him like he's a pervert. And it's like, that’s not fair to him."

This is the second incident where D'Avonte was disciplined for using the lyric: Last month he did a "booty shake" in front of the same girl's face.

This isn't the first time a student has been suspended for sexual harassment over a flippant remark. Just last year, a 9-year-old boy was suspended from his elementary school in North Carolina after calling his teacher "cute."

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Comments

[Mack Hopkins]

07:41 AM on 05/24/2012

Considering that it is one of the trashiest and worst songs in human history, I'd say the punishment is more than fitting.

[MarsAmbassador]

07:22 PM on 05/09/2012

Well, if you have little kids and you thought it was cute to watch them dance while you played the video on YouTube, then this is the result of your lack of responsible parenting. There's a REASON why my little girl has never seen anything BUT 'I'm Elmo And I Know It'. First of all, I don't want to explain to a pre-school girl what being sexy means, secondly, I don't want her singing it in front of anybody outside of the house because of situations that can arise, as illustrated in this story.

[Politically Neutral]

06:43 PM on 05/09/2012

This is absolute nonsense! We're criminalizing children now?

[CimmerianX]

01:12 PM on 05/08/2012

When I was that young I would sing songs I heard off the radio too. I had no idea what I was singing, I just liked the music. Unless this 1st grader had a maturity level of someone 10 years older, I doubt he even knows the connotations of the lyrics.

[BoshSpong]

01:10 PM on 05/08/2012

The song is used in an M&M commercial - these supposed "grown ups" really need to GROW UP.

[whycantwejustallgetalong]

11:49 AM on 05/08/2012

It's just a song, and I doubt the kid meant anything by it. Let's not ruin this kid's future over a silly line from a song.

[TisKishnsing]

07:40 AM on 05/08/2012

he's just a kid. and its just a song. get over it. and get a life. urgghhh

[DSevere]

01:20 AM on 05/08/2012

A little kid sang a silly harmless song that's been on the radio sixty zillion times. What is wrong with people in charge today? Geez...

[profoundimagery]

12:19 AM on 05/08/2012

All I know is that I experienced a suspension at 8 years old, just for talking while on the school lunch line. I was immediately sent from the school, left to wander the streets for fear of my mother finding out and beating me black and blue (In the 60's South Bronx NYC, was 'the' murder & crime capital of the U.S.A.). But after the 2nd or 3rd day she DID find out, confronted the Principle, & Whalla! No more problems. I was re-admitted the same day.

A year prior to that, I was suspended for defending myself from a boy who was bulling me - who they would not even chastise. Again Mom corrected that BS. She asked the Principle where he was when I was coming home crying everyday. My side of these events was NEVER even considered until my mother addressed it. Add other incidents, and its obviously pure, unadulterated BIGOTRY AND RACISM! Targeting BLACK YOUTH, ESPECIALLY MALES FOR SLAVERY.

I know of other kids who were just as unfairly treated, but didn't have the kind of parent that I did. I can only imagine the number of good kids who love school, but are conditioned to hate it by bigoted fascists teachers, and / or administrators (I've confronted both).

Solution: use of this internet and find those statistics, unite, and remove the nazis from our educational system (and military and police), to prevent more dead or homeless geniuses, or illiterates with graduation certificates.

[yemaya]

01:47 PM on 05/08/2012

kudos to your mom for sticking up to you!  Nice lady!

[Jezreel]

09:59 PM on 05/07/2012

LMFAO - I'm Sexy And I Know It Parody- I'm Elmo And I Know It featuring FLOTUS, Whoopi Goldberg and others. Enjoy.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iYvt6ZZ9y2Y

[TRUTH HURTS HUH]

09:19 PM on 05/07/2012

This song is used in the M&M commercial where the guy mistakes the female M&M for being naked, when the male M&M thinks the same thing he strips off his clothes and starts singing that song "I"m sexy and I know it, look at that body..." it plays all the time, how do we continue to blame our children for what we have allowed in our society. Our children can't repeat what they hear in a commercial???

[yemaya]

01:48 PM on 05/08/2012

excellent point. Ever watch toddlers and tiaras? disgusting show

[MarsAmbassador]

07:24 PM on 05/09/2012

No. I don't. Because I have 100% control on what enters the brains of me and my pre-school children, be it the TV or elsewhere.

[BcemXAHA]

02:01 PM on 05/07/2012

I guess it wasn't fair to all the other not "sexy" kids, can't have that, thus suspension!

[WishfulThinkingRulesAll]

01:50 PM on 05/07/2012

LOL. Kid has a history of being inappropriate. So he got suspended after his latest nonsense. Oh well, thems the breaks. Without more information I can't judge if this punishment was excessive or not, and neither can any of you.

Thread over?

[zenju2]

11:53 AM on 05/07/2012

How's that "land of the free and the home of the brave" thing working out, America? Now you're even considering small singing children to be "threats."

[WishfulThinkingRulesAll]

02:10 PM on 05/07/2012

We don't have even close to the full facts here. We have no idea how many times this kid has acted out. We don't know if the suspension was a huge overblown reaction or the appropriate punishment in light of the kid's history.

[yemaya]

01:50 PM on 05/08/2012

the more you make it into a thing, the more a kid will push your buttons. The teachers clearly do not know how to handle a kid singing a stupid song.

[Doug Earl]

10:39 PM on 05/06/2012

At least now we know where the Taliban have been hiding.

[SeanMartin]

08:21 AM on 05/07/2012

It is remarkable, isnt it, how folks decry the Taliban for doing unspeakable things to women, while in the US your government is merely more circumspect — and devious — about it.

[yemaya]

01:50 PM on 05/08/2012

huh