Boy (7) suspended for kiss at school

NEW YORK - For the second time in two weeks US school officials were embroiled in a row over political correctness after a seven…

NEW YORK - For the second time in two weeks US school officials were embroiled in a row over political correctness after a seven year old boy was suspended from a New York school for kissing another student.

De Andre Dearinge was barred from his state school in Queens for four days after he kissed a classmate and ripped a button off her skirt. The incident came less than a week after Johnathan Prevette (6) was suspended from his North Carolina school after kissing another child on the cheek.

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