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Parents are outraged after nearly two dozen 5th graders at Washington Elementary School in New Ulm, Minn., were caught playing a game called “rape tag,” WCCO TV reports. In the game, children “tag” each other by grabbing other students’ private parts, according to the report. Greg Diehl of a Rape & Abuse Crisis Center told WDAY TV he’s shocked by the game.
“So much of it is inappropriate for their age, their stage of development,” Diehl told the station…
A Minnesota mother has been banned from her child’s school and bus stop for defending her son against bullies, WCCO-TV reports. After her 10-year-old son Sovante Griffin complained about taking hits from boys on his school bus, Tanya Sydney confronted the bus driver, who told her he couldn’t ‘be in 50 million places at once,’ according to WCCO-TV. That’s when Sydney took care of the situation herself–by yelling at the two boys Griffin said were the bullying perpetrators…
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