Middle schooler gets detention for hugging.....

she's obviously a hussy and must be stopped!

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"You must nip these delinquent children in the bud."

Ouch.

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Slut! Whore!! Witch!!! Tar and feather her and then make her wear a sackcloth for the rest of the year!

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What state's Mascoutah in? I'd say ill.

I had no idea how subversive the "Hugs, not drugs" campaign was when I was in high school!

How can a girl find her vagina power with these kind of rules??

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and not double posting

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Updated On: 11/7/07 at 02:19 PM

obviously you all have not been paying attn to national news. Many districts have taken this measure to PROTECT the kids.
What constitues a hug and what constitutes sexual abuse is a razor-sharp line.
All it takes is one kid to scream something sexual and that distrit is sued.

While it may seem extreme, sadly the state of this country and lawsuits makes it all too necessary.

and as for this comment.

'These administrators need to to get their heads out of their asses. They are a major reason why schools these days aren't winning hearts and minds of many in the young.'

it shows what little you know about how school districts operate, and what can happen when one is sued.

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you may not, but the school kid (and his/her parents) that do could sue the district.......and win, and that will hurt every student, and future ones.

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What Elph says is sadly and grotesquely true.

I see this as a further example of society-in-general's descent into madness, not the educational system in particular.

exactly....and I don't like it, but it's at the point where school districts, and anybody has to protect themselves from lawsuits.

Trust me, when a district is sued and loses, it costs ALL citizens of that area (in taxes) not just the ones with kids in school.

sad state of the world

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I'm sorry I failed to mentioned the specter of lawsuits when it comes to public schools, but I knew that was a fear (I thought it would be automatically understood). It's really sad. I know where you're coming from, Elphaba, with all due respect, but such action like that of that administration smacks of zero tolerance (zero thinking). I, and many other people here, aren't convinced that what we gain out of this weighs more than what we lose in situations like this. Surely none of us want sexual harassment or hallway congestion in schools, but we're turning kids into robots when such provisions are in place in the long run as a scoiety, disconnecting themselves from common humanity even further. Many of us just don't think hugging is a gateway to worse sexual action. Soemthing has to be done about protecting schools from lawsuits stemming from harmless activities, as opposed to worse situations that apparently arose from them.

For further reading:
http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/10/04/4313

the last thing when I was in middle school any of us wanted to do was hug each other....but then it was hard to hug when school was taught in a covered wagon.....

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