Sexual pantomime gets middle-schooler expelled

A few years ago, Marcel Williams, 14, roamed football fields as a star running back for the national champion Flagler Junior Pee Wee Bulldogs. But this year he’s not seeing any football or school action at Palm Coast’s Buddy Taylor Middle School because he’s been expelled until January for making a crude taunt while keeping his pants on, reports The Daytona Beach News Journal. Although several kids were suspended for horsing around in the back of a school bus that day, Marcel told the News Journal he was the only one expelled. The punishment does not fit the misdeed, said Marcel’s father, Darial Williams, 43. But “tea-bagging,” as students call it, can be a gesture subtle enough that teachers may not even know it happened, or it can be flagrant — a student, still wearing clothes, rubbing his crotch in another’s face, said crotch in another’s face, Katrina Townsenf, the School District’s Director of Student Services, told The Daytona Beach News Journal. It would have been just another school disclipine issue, except the taunted boy’s father pressed criminal charges, which propelled it to another level. And what Marcel called “tea-bagging,” law enforcement officials called lewd and lascivious exhibition — a felony, according to the News Journal. The taunted student’s father later changed his mind and decided against pressing charges against Marcel. But it was too late to stop the School

District’s disciplinary process, reports the News Journal. A school bus security camera caught the action. School administrators said they had never seen such a severe, long-lasting “tea-bagging” as in Marcel’s case, Marcel’s father told the News Journal. A police report described the incident as lasting for “quite some time” before Marcel was “pulled off” the boy by other students. But Marcel told the news-Journal no one had to pull him off — and several other students were doing it, too. Marcel said the other boy was in on the joke, laughing and making mock sounds of disgust. Marcel thought the whole thing was over when he walked off the bus. But the next day he and the other boys were called to the principal’s office and suspended. Ten days later, when Marcel tried to return to Buddy Taylor, he said he was told he was trespassing, reports the News Journal. Meanwhile, he is attending “virtual school” via a computer at home. Marcel is stunned. He told the News Journal when he was at Buddy Taylor there was a “national butt-slapping day” and a day to “pop girls’ bra straps,” which were relayed via cell phones. Does the punishment fit the crime or does everyone need timeout for a tea break? Image: salon.com More FloriDUH

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Sexual pantomime gets middle-schooler expelled

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