Education

6-Year-Old Boy Accused of Sexual Harassment For Repeating Pop Song Lyric

AURORA, Colo. (AP/The Blaze) — A 6-year-old boy was suspended from his suburban Denver school for three days after school officials said he told a girl “I’m sexy and I know it,” a line from a popular song.

D’Avonte Meadows, a first-grader at Sable Elementary School in Aurora, is accused of sexual harassment and disrupting other students, according to a letter the school district sent to his mother after he was sent home Wednesday.

DAvonte Meadows, Six Year Old from Denver, is Suspended for Repeating a Line from LMFAOs Im Sexy and I Know It

D'Avonte Meadows

School officials issued a statement saying they couldn’t discuss the case, but they pointed out a school board policy that defines sexual harassment as any unwelcome sexual advance. There is no age limit.

The Aurora Police Department said it was not involved in the case because laws only cover children ages 10 and older.

D‘Avonte’s mother, Stephanie Meadows, said her son doesn‘t know the meaning of sexual harassment and it’s the second time he has gotten in trouble for quoting “Sexy and I Know It.” The song by the duo LMFAO was at the top of Billboard’s Hot 100 chart for two weeks in January.

“I’m just, I’m floored,” Stephanie Meadows told KMGH-TV ( http://bit.ly/KaXY7f ). “They‘re going to look at him like he’s a pervert. And it’s like, that’s not fair to him.”

The Associated Press could not locate the Meadows family for comment.

Aurora Public Schools issued a statement Thursday saying it is trying to provide an equal learning environment for all students.

“We have policies and protocol in place to prevent any disruption to the learning environment. Due to privacy laws, we are unable to discuss appropriate disciplinary consequences about a specific student,” wrote spokeswoman Paula Hans.

Denver attorney Craig Silverman said elementary school students have the same rights to free speech as adults as long as they understand and follow the rules. He said school policies should allow for exceptions.

“Sometimes when you go to a zero-tolerance policy, you end up with a zero-sense policy,” he said.

D‘Avonte’s suspension comes as the Colorado Legislature considers a measure that would eliminate zero-tolerance discipline policies related to violence and weapons that were enacted after the Columbine High School shootings.

It‘s a response to cases in which students have been punished for bringing fake guns or butter knives to school and doesn’t address sexual harassment policies. However, Sen. Linda Newell, the bill’s sponsor, said the measure would also direct school districts to consider alternative forms of discipline, such as remediation decided by a student’s peers, in all kinds of discipline cases.

The bill has passed the state Senate and is awaiting action by the full House.

Lawmakers who worked on the measure say zero-tolerance policies have disrupted too many students’ education for minor offenses.

As examples, lawmakers have cited Colorado students who were referred to police for trying to break up a fight or having a replica gun on school grounds.

They also point to cases such as at least two in Florida in which girls, 10 and 11 years old at the time, were arrested for allegedly bringing a plastic butter knife and a small kitchen knife to school.

Under Colorado’s Senate Bill 46, the only cause for mandatory expulsion would be bringing a real firearm to school.

Comments (105)

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  • blackyb
    Posted on May 4, 2012 at 11:54pm

    I would be apt to kick some buttacus over that. That poor little kid will have to suffer being expelled from school. Those sorry teachers probably do every sin in the book and then some and have the gall to judge that little kid. I truly despise stupidity. There must really not be a cure for it and I believe stupidity is catching from the top down.

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    • macruadhi
      Posted on May 5, 2012 at 12:41am

      The cure for stupidity?, eliminate the stupid people….

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    • db321
      Posted on May 5, 2012 at 1:20am

      Well what did you think was going to happen when you kicked God out of our Schools.

      We have an election coming up soon – you have 2 choices – God or Obama – a vote for Obama is a vote against God and the “Apple of God’s Eye – Israel” It’s your vote – don’t blow your chance in eternity just because of a vote!

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    • Marci
      Posted on May 5, 2012 at 3:06am

      This is so ridiculous. How can there be unwelcome sexual advances from a child who doesn’t even know what sexual advances are let alone the so-called harassed kid thinking it is sexual.

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    • wo12b1
      Posted on May 5, 2012 at 3:36am

      D‘Avonte’s mother, Stephanie Meadows, said her son doesn‘t know the meaning of sexual harassment and it’s the second time he has gotten in trouble for quoting “Sexy and I Know It.”

      Maybe it was cute the first time he sung it, but everytime after that (if he was asked not to sing it), not so much. His mother did say that this is the second time that he has been disciplined for the same exact thing. How many times was he asked to NOT sing the lyrics before he got in trouble the first time.

      Just asking, not condemning

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    • nzkiwi
      Posted on May 5, 2012 at 4:11am

      @Wo12b1

      That’s a good point, but they probably have “zero discipline” policy, too. Except for kicking kids out.

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    • Baddoggy
      Posted on May 5, 2012 at 4:33am

      I dunno but if Obama had a kid he would loo like this one….and sing sexy songs to the masses…

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    • Sirfoldallot
      Posted on May 5, 2012 at 10:27am

      WTH, this PC crap has gone 2 far, wake up ppl, freedom of speach remember that 1 ?

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    • Balpit
      Posted on May 5, 2012 at 12:19pm

      If they can expel students for bringing nail clippers or using over-the-counter medicine under the Zero tolerance policy (under the grounds that they are a weapon and drugs, respectively), it was only a matter of time until they suspended a kid over song lyrics.

      The Zero tolerance policy must be eradicated. It’s a lazy, faulty disciplinary tool that turns ordinary kids into criminals. At the age of 6, D’Avonte is too young to understand the concept of sex, let alone sexual harassment. Was it too much work to call him to the principal’s office and ask his mother to come over and discuss the issue? Instead, they were too lazy and suspended him instead.

      Looks like Sable elementary employs teachers whose IQ’s matches their shoe sizes. Hopefully D‘Avonte’s mom will enroll him in a new school with smarter teachers.

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    • ICEDRAGONNITE
      Posted on May 5, 2012 at 4:04pm

      Stupid is stupid. These teachers are the most stupid. Get the UNIONS out of the schools and bring the schools back to the people.

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    • lukerw
      Posted on May 5, 2012 at 10:47pm

      Children… do not Conceptualize… until about 9 years old!

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  • blackyb
    Posted on May 4, 2012 at 11:52pm

    These are the lunatics running our schools. That little boy has no knowlege of what sex even means, obviously. I am so glad I am not that kids parent, I would have a problem maintaining my cool. Those teachers have about as much judgement as a turnip. This is what is dumbing our kids down and making them feel less than who they are. That puts a freaking slow burn in me.

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    • MAMMY_NUNN
      Posted on May 5, 2012 at 2:34am

      It does bring into question of the morality of the parents honestly do you want your children singing and acting out on some of the rap songs and lyrics.

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  • kalli
    Posted on May 4, 2012 at 11:51pm

    This is outrageous! I was in shock to see this 6 yr. old lives here in Aurora. When are adults going to learn that you can’t have it both ways. The obama admin is pushing kids to learn about sex in kindergarten down to even knowing what to use for protection, and they are to learn how to be tolerant of the “gay” life infiltrating our lives. Then, we boot a 6 yr. old out of school for singing a song that he probably picked up off the radio…one that obama probably sings to himself every day! Unbelievable!

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    • rsanchez1
      Posted on May 5, 2012 at 12:16am

      He probably does sing it to himself:

      http://thehill.com/video/administration/219005-obama-sexy-and-i-know-it-mashup-takes-web-by-storm

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    • kalli
      Posted on May 5, 2012 at 1:02am

      OMG…and we wonder why this generation is so wound up with sexual indecency! What this admin is doing to our youth is mind-blowing and unforgiveable. Every time an ad comes on tv for viagra or other sexual gratification crap, I have to turn the channel…I am furious that anyone has to listen to this it. It appears that sexual gratification is what everyone should be most concerned about! The consequences of what our children are learning are appalling. And we wonder where 6 yr olds pick up this stuff. Bible scripture tells us parents are responsible for training their children…not the bloody gov’t! And, God will hold us accountable.

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  • Cat_Ion
    Posted on May 4, 2012 at 11:48pm

    The public schools are Out Of Contol in SO many ways…
    Their administrators are petty, rigid bureaucrats who know only Rules, Rules, Rules.

    No one under them has anything like a spine. “The Right Thing” to do has been ‘educated’ out of them in favor of their bureacratic rules. Oh, its not Just the NEA/union thing. They are the Frontline in the Communist takeover, and most of them are still oblivious to the fact thet they are mere tools in the Dumbing Down Of the country. They think they are being altruistic, they think they are doing really good things by ‘educating’ the country‘s young’uns. But then, they are products of that self-same “public education system” .
    Long after I’d left public education (c. 1993), I read a great article online by Charlotte Iserbyt on “Deliberate Dumbing Down” of America’s public education. It hit-home on So may points, it literally Chilled me to the bone… Google her, read everything she’s published. Agree or disagree, she is spot-on regarding ‘dumbing-down’ and how it has been a planned flailure.
    (Former teacher; glad I escaped.)

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    • stumpy68
      Posted on May 5, 2012 at 12:05am

      Many families are doing without so one parent
      can stay home and home school their children
      its the only way to ensure your child will learn what they need to
      be successful in life.

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  • SOIssues
    Posted on May 4, 2012 at 11:35pm

    This is what happens when you have zero tolerance laws and puritans running the country.

    This is just pathetic. Kids will be kids, and if people think back to their own childhood, I’m sure you did similar things, if you’ll admit it.

    More kids ruined by insane laws:
    http://sexoffenderissues.blogspot.com/2007/12/child-sex-offenders.html

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    • blackyb
      Posted on May 4, 2012 at 11:57pm

      These are not acts of “puritans.” These are acts of overzealous ********. These people are destroying our children. Everyone should take their children out of public schools away from these souless idiots.
      These leftard take the brightest and turn them in to people who have no confidence to think on their own. Someone needs to be fired over this.

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    • Taquoshi
      Posted on May 5, 2012 at 5:34pm

      If Puritans were running the country, that song would have never made it to the airwaves. So, guess again.

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  • barnsy
    Posted on May 4, 2012 at 11:32pm

    I have zero-tolerance for these politically correct,socialist indoctrination centers disguised as “public schools”. They are turning out generations of brain dead,communist,occupying,self entitled,little Obama voting zombies!

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  • rl
    Posted on May 4, 2012 at 11:32pm

    They should OUTLAW PC……..

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  • barnsy
    Posted on May 4, 2012 at 11:25pm

    I have zero-tolerance for these politically correct,socialist indoctrination centers disguised as “public schools”. Were turning out generations of brain dead,communist,occupying,little Obama voting zombies!

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  • Maxim Crux
    Posted on May 4, 2012 at 10:55pm

    Home school your kids now….Do it….Do it…! It is not that hard and it is not only a learning experience for the parent, but it is also a great way to bond with your kids. They will respect you and trust you a lot more because you will display an interest in what they are learning. They will trust you more than the system that will fail them. You will not only see an improvement in their grades, but you will see a real interest in the topics. Too busy for your kids education…stop carting them to sports events which mean little to nothing when they graduate. Teach them to be individuals first and team players second.

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    • vehoae
      Posted on May 4, 2012 at 11:12pm

      Excellent post, MAXIM CRUX ! If you will remember back three years, during the last presidential competition, bHo indicated that he wanted to see the end of charter schools, private schools, religious schools, and … wait for it … home schooling. He (and Cass Sunstein) felt/feel that only by public schools forced on all K through 12 students, will there be social justice. Voters have a tendency to forget these chilling types of comments. With the upcoming popularity vote in November, it would be well for all of you to remember this.

      Lord, come quickly.

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    • kcares
      Posted on May 5, 2012 at 5:04am

      I’m a grandmother of a 6yr. old little boy, and if I heard him saying anything I didn’t think was appropriate, I would tell him why it wasn’t right. We have rules, and he loves it. He even tells his friends the rules and they make up new ones. If he was disciplines once before, his parent should have told him to stop of else. I noticed he was black. Another story of a black wanting attention just like our current “whatever in the white house”. He is doing nothing for his race, even tho he is half white. We all see it, and they just keep calling us raciest for telling the truth.

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    • Taquoshi
      Posted on May 5, 2012 at 5:41pm

      KCares – I don’t think it has anything to do with the race of the child. Kids repeat things they hear and often the adults hear it in a different context. One day, while we were trying to go to a meeting, I remarked to my spouse that “we were tied up” in traffic and that because of major construction, it was likely to be that way for a long time. Our son repeated that we had been “tied up” to another child and that started an inquiry as to whether or not he was being force-ably restrained at home. Art Linkletter had a television show called “Kids Say the Darnest Things” and yes, the kids came out with some real whoppers.

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  • spirited
    Posted on May 4, 2012 at 10:51pm

    Head shake
    –head shake

    >sigh ….. head shake

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  • 4xeverything
    Posted on May 4, 2012 at 10:48pm

    Hopefully, other states will fall in line with anti-zero tolerance laws. Kids are treated like criminals from the time they start school. It‘s a wonder that more kids don’t grow up to be criminals. When do kids just get to be kids?

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  • ChiefGeorge
    Posted on May 4, 2012 at 10:43pm

    They could not comment in this CASE! My goodness! They have a CASE! Please! Unwanted sexual advances???? You’ve got to be insane. Can the girl or boy in this socalled CASE even know what they are saying. I think not but give them (the system) enough time and they’ll have sex-ed in kindergarten. I feel bad for this kid but its really an American epidemic we are facing with PC gone wild in this country.

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    • The-Monk
      Posted on May 4, 2012 at 10:53pm

      This Child and his parent(s) will be invited to the White House lick-a-t-spilt with Holder filing charges against the School and anyone else he can. When Congress “invites” Holder back for more questioning on Fast and Furious he will say he’s too busy with this important case of racism.

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  • The-Monk
    Posted on May 4, 2012 at 10:42pm

    If Obama had a Son he’d look just like this Child…. and he’s left handed also just like Obama.

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  • Shiroi Raion
    Posted on May 4, 2012 at 10:36pm

    I’m in Colorado. My nephew, in high school, got a participation trophy today… His teachers are, he tells me, constantly telling the students about how great Obama is. I’ve read some of his assignments which were clearly omitting facts or pieces of history for the Progressive Liberal agenda. It seems this city is headed the way of California. At least it’s not as crazy here as in Boulder yet… but still, little kids wearing dreadlocks, pink or blue or green or purple hair, nose rings, pierced eyebrows, wearing leather jackets over their hoodies in 80+ degree weather, pants hanging around their knees… there are A LOT of SERIOUSLY messed up kids around here. The college kids aren’t much better.
    It does seem like the dumbing down of our kids is intentional.

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    • Popp40
      Posted on May 4, 2012 at 11:10pm

      @Shiroi raion….have your nephew read George Orwell’s 1984 and then ask him how it compares to today? I’m pretty sure the schools in CO are not assigning this as required reading so he will have to go do it on his own.

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    • The-Monk
      Posted on May 4, 2012 at 11:10pm

      @Shiroi Raion
      You sound so… recluse and uninvolved. Why is that or am I mistaken?

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  • toto
    Posted on May 4, 2012 at 10:33pm

    May be missing some information, but on the face of what is presented, it confirms my opinion that there is a generation of idiots running, and teaching in, our schools. What ever happened to common sense? For most of the people “in charge” it seems to be an alien concept. Children are being educationally lobotomized, robbed of problem solving for themselves, and turned into politically correct robots, unable cope with the rigors of living. Teach the Golden Rule, it covers EVERYTHING. So much of the ridiculousness would disappear.

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    • ChiefGeorge
      Posted on May 4, 2012 at 10:53pm

      Lawyers have brought us this problem. If the girl tells her parents about this boy and what he is saying and that she told the teacher but nothing was done, then the Lawyers are called in to sue the school. This was the initial response (out of fear) in years past, once the lawyer threat was becoming more real all across this nation, the zealots moved in earnest to PC everyone about how to think, act and talk to one another from military lectures on the subject to corporate boardrooms and in house employee training sessions. Color outside those lines and its straight to jail with you.

      We have lost so much innocent freedom in this country the toll of it may never be told. Maybe by 2076 our three hundreth independence celebration can the Frontline/PBS REAL story of American history be told. I can only hope if we make it that far that those who are alive can know the truth of what happened in our time. 1976 to present.

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    • toto
      Posted on May 4, 2012 at 11:10pm

      Chiefgeorge, I guess the joke about “kill all the lawyers” is not so funny. (I am married to a benevolent one) Have no idea how we can rip the power from them, but it needs to be done, they have ruined our country.

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    • drbage
      Posted on May 5, 2012 at 11:37am

      @TOTO
      You hit the nail on the head. The crowning glory of the public indoctrination system in the US is their success in getting rid of “common sense.” You see it over and over again. Take CA as the center of this movement. They have a law that a young girl, no matter her age, can pop into her local Planned Parenthood Clinic and get an abortion. To recover, she goes to a tanning salon, but is not allowed in since she is under 18 and doesn’t have parental consent. What message is being sent with that? But then they top that ridiculousness and go for the sublime. If the police pull you over for a moving violation and discover that you have no license or are in the country illegally or as Clownitano now wants us to say “unlawfully present,” the police cannot impound you vehicle because it would cause such a level of financial hardship that it would rise almost to the level of cruel and unusual punishment. However, if you are a citizen or lawfully present, the police can impound your vehicle. So doesn’t that mean that those unlawfully present have more rights than the citizens?

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  • Cant steal my joy
    Posted on May 4, 2012 at 10:33pm

    Check out the kid’s t-shirt “Just do it” . Better not where that one to school. No doubt his school will find that too suggestive too.

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    • Artlife
      Posted on May 4, 2012 at 11:36pm

      his shirt says “didn’t”. likely says “I didn’t do it”.

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    • edf55
      Posted on May 4, 2012 at 11:48pm

      Look closer. It says “I didn’t do it”.

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  • IDONTTHINKSO
    Posted on May 4, 2012 at 10:28pm

    We need to stop these idiots! The idiots have way too much control and no common sense! Individualism is what’s destroying the US. If all the parents would support all the children, things like this would stop happening! This type of stupidity is ruining the lives of many youngsters across this country; this is how innocence is being stolen from children. What has happened to childhood?

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  • beckwill
    Posted on May 4, 2012 at 10:26pm

    Idiots! We have idiots in charge all over the place incapable of logical or critical thinking! Liberals will gag at gnat and swallow a horse!!

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  • chips1
    Posted on May 4, 2012 at 10:23pm

    Maybe he should sing it to Obama’s kids.

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  • SingerGuy
    Posted on May 4, 2012 at 10:23pm

    I really, really miss my country! I had no idea this was what was on the other side of the wormhole I must have fallen into.

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    • Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra
      Posted on May 4, 2012 at 10:39pm

      Take the Red Pill next time.

      All I know if you would have told me 15 years ago, this is what America is going to look like, I would have said, “Yeah right, and I am going to wake up with my pants on backwards with a quarter in my hand”

      Dang, a quarter doesn’t go very far now days.

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    • toto
      Posted on May 4, 2012 at 11:35pm

      I have shed more tears than I can say about the loss of what was once our country. We had the best and tragically have allowed it to be destroyed because we have been oh so tolerant of those who are unworthy of freedom.

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    • china clipper
      Posted on May 5, 2012 at 8:46am

      We fell into the wormhole during the sexual and drug revolution.

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  • RepubliCorp
    Posted on May 4, 2012 at 10:22pm

    He did it for trayvon

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  • Popp40
    Posted on May 4, 2012 at 10:22pm

    All I have to say is…………………I am so sick of this PC Bullsh!t.

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  • RepubliCorp
    Posted on May 4, 2012 at 10:17pm

    “I’m sexy and I know it,” I bet Obama sings that song

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    • RossPoldark
      Posted on May 5, 2012 at 2:25am

      These are your typical progressive with their political correctness. Obama sings this song, but remember, his moto is ‘ do as I say, but don’t do as I do, or I will dig up garbage to ruin you, even if it’s all lies.’

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  • Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra
    Posted on May 4, 2012 at 10:15pm

    It wasn’t the lyrics that got him in trouble, he is just a REALLLY bad singer. Plus the crotch grab and leg humping of the teacher didn’t help.

    Thank goodness he wasn’t singing “I’m too sexy for this class” or Chuck Berry’s “My Ding A Ling”.

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  • ProgressiveDeist267
    Posted on May 4, 2012 at 10:07pm

    What has our country come to? Political correctness hurts more than it helps.

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