No Touching At School

[Gothampc]

Posted: 3/29/09 at 3:05pm

It figures it's a woman principal coming up with this insane policy.

"A Connecticut middle school principal has laid down the law: You put your hands on someone -- anyone -- in any way, you're going to pay."
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[TheatreDiva90016]

Posted: 3/29/09 at 3:09pm

What is this world coming to?!

I used to enjoy every grab to the groin when I was in school.

[shira467]

Posted: 3/29/09 at 3:27pm

Well, that's just idiotic. Why don't we just put them all in chains to their desks. You know, for their own safety.

Touch is NECESSARY for psychological development. The psychologist in me is freaking out!

[Gothampc]

Posted: 3/29/09 at 3:32pm

Not to mention this pretty much rules out the phys ed program. Gone are baseball, softball, football, cheerleading, gymnastics, wrestling and ballroom dancing.

[Mr Roxy]

Posted: 3/29/09 at 3:46pm

Have you never heard of PC sports?

You dream it all in your mind - until this is of course outlawed.

[Dollypop]

Posted: 3/29/09 at 4:10pm

After my experiences at the Mecca of Education before I retired, I can understand what the principal is doing. There was much, too much physical contact. Students were making out like crazy in the hallways during passing time, actual copulation was going on in the stairwells during classes and in class girls were being groped continually--sometimes by other girls.

I'm sure the principal had no choice but to enforece a riule like this.

[spiderdj82]

Posted: 3/29/09 at 4:11pm

Dolly - I understand no touching in the sexual sense. But, not even a handshake, a "high five," nothing? That is insane and stupid.

[Mr Roxy]

Posted: 3/29/09 at 4:15pm

I guess if a child is bleeding and other child is trying to stop the bleeding this will be outlawed.

[Phyllis Rogers Stone]

Posted: 3/29/09 at 4:27pm

Well, maybe this would be a good idea for some schools. Like maybe Catholic schools?

[nmartin]

Posted: 3/29/09 at 4:37pm

Dollypop, I used to teach at a school where those things went on as well. I can well imagine a responsible principal becoming fed up with the whole thing. Thank God I do NOT teach at that hideous place anymore.

[Dollypop]

Posted: 3/29/09 at 4:42pm

We, as teachers, were strictly forbidden from touching students. I know of one teacher--an outstanding, decent guy--who was removed from the classroom because a female student claimed that he touched her "in a sexual manner". In actuality, his hand brushed passed her buttocks while they were passing in a crowded hallway.

The kids in that school knew they could get rid of their teachers for at least a month if they made such charges. The teacher was put into an "administrative assignment" and a sub took over the class while the teacher was being investigated. Most times the charges were false and the teacher was returned to the classroom, but for a full month, the kids has a free-for-all with a substitute teacher.

Most times, the charges were that the teacher had "touched me in a sexual manner".

Updated On: 3/29/09 at 04:42 PM

[Jane2]

Posted: 3/29/09 at 4:50pm

This is nothing new. The rule was in effect when I was still teaching, around 8 years ago.

One day a little girl put a note on my desk. It read "I need a hug." Tore my heart out. I took her into the hall and explained the rule, but gave her a quick hug anyway.

[Mr Roxy]

Posted: 3/29/09 at 4:52pm

To PRS

Nice to see you have such one sided & negative views

[husk_charmer]

Posted: 3/29/09 at 5:11pm

I actually got that policy overturned at my school. We weren't allowed to do ANY touching, but the only times it was inforced was same-sex touching (and I don't mean making out, I mean any touching). It didn't take much to build a strong case to get it reversed by the Superintendent.

[StockardFan]

Posted: 3/29/09 at 6:34pm

I have to echo Goth on the sports thing. WTF?

[Phyllis Rogers Stone]

Posted: 3/29/09 at 8:22pm

Thanks, Roxy!

This reminds me of when Obama wanted to teach kindergartners how to have sex. I guess this thread means Goth wants to put his hands in the pants of young boys girls?
Updated On: 3/29/09 at 08:22 PM

[KingKong]

Posted: 3/29/09 at 8:24pm

It figures it's a woman principal coming up with this insane policy.

Really, I'm the only one who found this offensive?

[Phyllis Rogers Stone]

Posted: 3/29/09 at 8:30pm

I did! Everyone knows you say lady principal.

[Gothampc]

Posted: 3/29/09 at 9:08pm

"Really, I'm the only one who found this offensive?"

Yes, because everyone knows it's true. If it were a man principal, he would have said "A kick in the groin will make a man out of you. Get used to it kid, life sometimes gives you a kick in the groin."

[KingKong]

Posted: 3/29/09 at 9:09pm

wow, lets hear it for vast sweeping and incredibly sexist generalizations.

[Phyllis Rogers Stone]

Posted: 3/29/09 at 9:13pm

Yeah, because in life grown people walk around kicking each other in the groin all the time.

[Schmerg_The_Impaler]

Posted: 3/29/09 at 9:13pm

I wonder what would happen if a student needed CPR or the Heimlich maneuver?
Oh Jane, that story is kind of heartbreaking.

Actually, this reminds me of my second grade class. My German teacher was an elderly, slobbery, very loud German lady, and she was very nice, but she scared me a lot. One day, I was crying because I hurt myself on the playground, and she asked me if she could kiss me. I was terrified. I just stood up and said, "I don't think my mother would approve of that" and walked away. When I told my mom, I thought she would be proud of me, but instead she just started cracking up. She tells that story all the time now.

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 3/29/09 at 9:18pm

"Nice to see you have such one sided & negative views"

Roxy, you have never had a view that wasn't one sided and 90% of what you write here is negative.

[Phyllis Rogers Stone]

Posted: 3/29/09 at 9:29pm

My views on the Catholic Church as pretty well rounded, anyway. I think I can safely say that as one-sided and negative goes, I got nothing on what the Holy Roman Empire hath wrought.

[miss pennywise]

Posted: 3/29/09 at 10:05pm

It figures it's a male poster calling a woman "insane" for complaining about inappropriate touching.