The little lad though, WAS charged with sexual harrassment, in 1998, I found it in several American papers. The mouthwash incident also happened, again in 1998 in America, according to The New York Times. The last one is somewhat more ambiguous, but I'd not be surprised if that too happened, round about the same time, perhaps, and those three incidents together were in the author's mind...

There's a great deal of 'sense' in those words, to me.

These words in particular strike home to me, as a mother.

"It declined even further when schools were required to get parental consent
to administer sun lotion or an Aspirin to a student; but could not inform
parents when a student became pregnant and wanted to have an abortion. "

Isn't it still illegal for a child under the age of 16 to have sex, or anyone older than that to have sex with them? Yet, GPs and schools are free to give them contraception ad hoc, and yet their parents are kept entirely in the dark. So, doesn't that make the doctors, nurses and teachers guilty of aiding and abetting an illegal act?

That's always puzzled me, along with the fact that the State says we, as parents, are soley responsible for our children, and yet, if they want to have under-age, illegal sex, then we have no right to know and the State is in charge.

Hmmmmmmmm......