Hugging ban?

Seriously?

from JoeUser Forums

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071106/ap_on_fe_st/odd_detention_for_hugging_2

MASCOUTAH, Ill. - Two hugs equals two days of detention for 13-year-old Megan Coulter. The eighth-grader was punished for violating a school policy banning public displays of affection when she hugged two friends Friday.

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"I was just giving them a hug goodbye for the weekend," she said.

Megan's mother, Melissa Coulter, said the embraces weren't even real hugs — just an arm around the shoulder and slight squeeze.

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District Superintendent Sam McGowen said that he thinks the penalty is fair and that administrators in the school east of St. Louis were following policy in the student handbook.

It states: "Displays of affection should not occur on the school campus at any time. It is in poor taste, reflects poor judgment, and brings discredit to the school and to the persons involved."

Do I even have to point out how extremely fucking stupid this is?

~Zoo

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Reply #1 from JoeUser Forums Top
Do I even have to point out how extremely fucking stupid this is?


No, you don't have to point it out 'causeI think it's pretty much obvious.
Reply #2 from JoeUser Forums Top
But it KEEPS THEM FROM SCREWING, Zoo! It's the only way we can show these children the "high road of abstinence"!
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Reply #3 from JoeUser Forums Top

But it KEEPS THEM FROM SCREWING, Zoo! It's the only way we can show these children the "high road of abstinence"!

yep, that will work - lol. 

hm...I guess there is no difference between tonsil hockey and a shoulder squeeze or it's too hard to differentiate.  The extremism is ridiculous. 

Reply #4 from JoeUser Forums Top

 

No, you don't have to point it out 'causeI think it's pretty much obvious.

Yes, indeedy.

It's the only way we can show these children the "high road of abstinence"!

Ah, of course.  Remember kids, you can get pregnant and/or AIDS from hugging!

I guess there is no difference between tonsil hockey and a shoulder squeeze or it's too hard to differentiate.
 

Tongue in mouth...squeeze on shoulder...hmm.  PDA GRRR!!! *foams at mouth* DETENTION FOR THE HARLOT!!!

~Zoo

Reply #5 from JoeUser Forums Top
Aw, shucks. I guess I'm gonna go get teen pregnant.
Reply #6 from JoeUser Forums Top

Aw, shucks. I guess I'm gonna go get teen pregnant.

It's a horrible problem in our society.  Hug induced pregnancy...what a shame.

~Zoo

Reply #7 from JoeUser Forums Top
Damn huggy kids, what's next? Kids not knifing each other? Can't have that!
Reply #8 from JoeUser Forums Top

Damn huggy kids, what's next? Kids not knifing each other? Can't have that!

I know...all these hugs and the love associated with it?  What's next, world peace?  *psh* Horrible!

~Zoo

Reply #9 from JoeUser Forums Top
Absolutely ridiculous, stupid, crazy, fucking insane etc., etc.

I read recently (although I can't find a reference online) about a study in England that said something along the lines that the reason depression is so rife among a lot of people is because of a distinct lack of hugs. Hugs help alleviate stress, increase one's sense of well-being etc.

So these measures will protect children and teens from getting pregnant but turn them into stessed and depressed individuals capable of far worse.
Reply #10 from JoeUser Forums Top

So these measures will protect children and teens from getting pregnant but turn them into stessed and depressed individuals capable of far worse.

Lovely, just lovely.  It's funny how history seems to be going through a loop.  Boys and girls used to be separated in school, now they're separating everyone from everyone.  Cross into someone else's personal space with their consent is somehow a bad thing now.  What a duality exists these days.  Sex is ever present in the media, but damn you to hell for even thinking of hugging anyone with platonic intentions.  Hugging is to go on behind closed doors in the privacy of a home.

*sigh*

~Zoo

Reply #11 from JoeUser Forums Top

What the future holds:

"Hello Cindy, I can plainly see you're upset and if it were not illegal I would comfort you with a friendly embrace."

"Thank you. I would reciprocate such an embrace with great relief and appreciation. Unfortunately it is not to be."

~Zoo

Reply #12 from JoeUser Forums Top
You know what we should do is make every kid in school be like Bubble Boy (a classic). Think of the benefits, no passing of germs, lice and absolutely no physical contact. They might have to rethink the desk situation though. It would also add a whole new element to dodgeball if they hadn't already banned it.
Reply #13 from JoeUser Forums Top
In the game Black and White, the women get pregnant by hugging... so maybe video games really do make people stupid?
Reply #14 from JoeUser Forums Top

Congratulations Zoo!  You have discovered the world of Zero Tolerance = Zero Intelligence!  Wish I had seen this one, as it fits into my tirades on why schools are so locked up with rules, they left their brains at the door when they report for work.

What is so effing stupid is the administrator trying to defend it!

Reply #15 from JoeUser Forums Top
By the way, Zoo - your wit is great.
Reply #16 from JoeUser Forums Top
This is a sad state of affairs and exactly the kind of insane practices that schools are using in the name of safety and all that school shooting stuff. The steps they should actually taking to stop some of these awful events are not in place or are not working as can be seen by the amount of school shootings we hear about. No, instead, lets stop students from being friendly towards each other, this way they can foster dislike and discontentment even more! BS!
Reply #17 from JoeUser Forums Top
If nobody can show they're friendly with anybody, then maybe they would be friendly with you if they could. So, ban it so everyone can feel like they're the most liked person in the room - it's just illegal to show it!
Reply #18 from JoeUser Forums Top

Stupid???  It's the most asinine thing I"ve ever heard of!! Stupid doesn't begin to describe this....where the heck is this place,  in Russia??!!  or some country we're not part of?!   Oh this is some bad stuff.

I hope they get sued,  and I"m one of those that thinks there's too many lawsuits.

Reply #19 from JoeUser Forums Top

You know what we should do is make every kid in school be like Bubble Boy (a classic).

Those bubbles should also be opaque...what if they start looking at each other with sin hungry eyes!

In the game Black and White, the women get pregnant by hugging

Yeah, I actually have that game.  I just hope a Creature doesn't shit on my house, that's all I need.

Congratulations Zoo! You have discovered the world of Zero Tolerance = Zero Intelligence!

Too bad the only prize I win is disappointment in mankind.

By the way, Zoo - your wit is great.

You know it.

No, instead, lets stop students from being friendly towards each other, this way they can foster dislike and discontentment even more!

We must foster the hatred of the youth!

Stupid??? It's the most asinine thing I"ve ever heard of!!

No argument there.

~Zoo

Reply #20 from JoeUser Forums Top

Good morning, The Worm, Your Honour,
The Crown will plainly show,
The prisoner who now stands before you,
Was caught red-handed showing feelings.
Showing feelings of an almost human nature.
This will not do.
Call the schoolmaster!  ~The Trial, Pink Floyd

How else are they going to make mindless automatons out of the kids?  First take their ability to dream, then don't teach them out to think... then punish them for caring about each other.

Reply #21 from JoeUser Forums Top

How else are they going to make mindless automatons out of the kids?

Glad I got the hell out of there before they pulled this crap on me.

~Zoo

Reply #22 from JoeUser Forums Top
Heck, if they pulled this on us, all of us who hung out in the parking lot would hug just to get suspended... then hang out in the parking lot anyway. ;~D
Reply #23 from JoeUser Forums Top

Heck, if they pulled this on us, all of us who hung out in the parking lot would hug just to get suspended

You hugging fiends!  Society would shun you for your gratuitous use of arms to encircle the body of another while they do so to you in turn! For shame!

~Zoo

Reply #24 from JoeUser Forums Top
What can I say, we were rebels! :~D
Reply #25 from JoeUser Forums Top

What can I say, we were rebels!

Ah, to live in such rebellion!  Joyous times of unfettered hugging, smiling, handshaking, and perhaps a kiss on the cheek.  Where has our radical attitude gone?

~Zoo