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Hugging is Bad?

At a school in Illinois they have banned public displays of affection. This is reasonable I can understand, but the way it is being enforced I find a little wacko. Punishment for hugging your best friends on Friday before you go home for the weekend at the end of the day is a little bit over the top, a day of detention for each hug. Is the school a place where we are too good for hugging? What kind of public displays of affection are not appropriate for school and what can be acceptable? I don't know if the way this school is addressing the problem would be the right way to work on this problem . . .
With some of the changes projected for the Minneapolis Public Schools in the near future, will there be something like this, a silly or not well thought out policy? Will we make large mistakes in our proposed remodeled schools?
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071106/ap_on_fe_st/odd_detention_for_h...

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Permalink Reply by Kim FB on May 16, 2008 at 4:59pm: My first reaction is that the decision seems based on no input from anyone, and on a snap decision based on events of a few days.

Wowzers.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Annie W on May 16, 2008 at 10:33pm: Woah. I heard about this but I didn't know it was that severe. These are little kids! Of course they're going to touch each other! What happens if they do? They get sent out, crying, to the office? Seriously? Can they even play tag? This really confuses me...they're kids. Babies, really. It'll be interesting to see where this goes.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Annie W on May 19, 2008 at 9:27pm: Did you guys hear that she made a new statement? About how she actually meant no rough-play at recess?; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Tajhera Madison on May 22, 2008 at 2:25pm: By schools doing this, they're saying that public affection is wrong. I't s understandable if they're in the hall way swapping spit or even hugging inappropriately as seen all the time at my school. But I don't think that's their intent. I didn't know hugging was a bad thing though. Pretty soon looking at each other will be forbidden.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Kim FB on May 22, 2008 at 4:39pm: Tajhera, Interesting! Have you read A Brave New World?

Any ideas, everyone, for a different approach to solving what the principal is concerned about? I could share your ideas with the principal and others (maybe even a journalist covering the story!).; ▶ Reply to This

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