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I'm from Europe, too. Kids are expelled from school for less than this. He absolutely should be expelled and have to have mandatory counseling. A slap on the wrist will just show other kids they can get away with sexual harassment and abuse, and make it even worse for the victims.
Just for you: He is 13 (in words: thirteen).
But demanding draconian punishments is always easy of course.
At 13 I could tell right from wrong. 13 is young, but old enough to know better than this. And expelling someone for sexual harassment/abuse and giving them mandatory counseling isn't draconian. What's draconian is that girls and women have to deal with this type of abuse and have people like you wave it off like it's not a big deal, because boys will be boys.
Sure but the problem is being expelled from school potentially ruins their entire adult life. There should be a better way of handling that includes appropriate punishment and remediation, as well as support for the victim, and still sets the kid up to become a functioning adult member of society
There have to be more answers than either expel them or accept their behavior, and the school district needs to be tasked with finding one that both ensures justice and their role of helping kids become responsible adults
at least here they have schools (well, a school) for the kids who got expelled from gen ed. they get the same shitty education the rest of us do, no fun extracurriculars, and if they fuck up there they're done.
Where did I state that? That's just a strawman. That I don't think one should ruin a very young and potentially immature person's life doesn't mean I don't think that behavior should be addressed. But please enlighten me how expelling someone makes that person a better member of the society?