Ah yes, the old "kids will be kids" defense. Exclusively used by those who can't be bothered to try to have well behaved children. The battle cry of lazy parents everywhere. The more the mother talks the more I become convinced that the school is doing the right thing. The child clearly has behavioral issues. I notice that the mother keeps using the term "sexual harassment" and I suspect that's because she knows it will get a strong reaction from the public: It's ridiculous for a child that young to be accused of sexual harassment, after all he doesn't even understand it. He doesn't understand the song, and he heard it on a commercial. He was just being a kid. It's normal. The girl and her parents are overreacting and being ridiculous.
Of course I haven't heard anyone else say it was sexual harassment. The fact is, sexual or not, the kid was pestering the girl and didn't stop when he was told to. I'm glad the school acted to stop it instead of expecting the girl to just ignore it. A child that young shouldn't be expected to deal with that kind of thing by herself. It's the school's job to help the students with issues like this.
As an aside, while I do think it's extremely important to teach children to ignore people who pick on them or to stand up for themselves when necessary, I think it's a terrible idea to teach a child to resort to physical violence to defend themselves unless they are actually being beaten up. In most schools, the child who takes a verbal situation and makes it physical is going to get into even more trouble than the instigator will regardless of how much bullying might have gone on before it got to that point. Even if a child is physically defending himself from being beaten up, unless there's a clear history of the child going to the teacher or principal for help leading up to the situation, the child is likely to be viewed as an equal participant in the fight.
