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- MikeonTV, on 11/14/2007, -11/+871Why don't we just wrap our women in cloth and be done with it?
- borninda818, on 11/14/2007, -7/+786"public displays of affection"??? You gotta be kidding.
If it was me, I would organize a mass hugging party where every student in the school hugged another student at a certain time in protest. Granted these kids are 13, but I was pretty hot headed at that age. - Bukowsky, on 11/13/2007, -11/+420Wussification of America
- Gugel, on 11/13/2007, -3/+380Why is displaying affection in public (if you don't take it to extremes) bad in the first place? Shouldn't they be encouraging loving your fellow man (or woman)?
- lnf69, on 11/13/2007, -6/+296I guess it's much more acceptable to shoot everyone in class instead of hugging them. WTF is going on here?
FTA:' [school handbook] 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.”' - yourmom, on 11/14/2007, -4/+282don't call the school's phone number:
mascoutah middle school
(618) 566-2305 - inactive, on 11/12/2007, -4/+228That's what I was thinking. And get some signs with a catchy phrase.
Seriously, WTF is up with this policy? In our school, it's the same thing, but no one in places of authority has any problem with casual hugs. Girls can hug each other all they want and you're not going to get in trouble for giving your girlfriend a quick kiss between classes. Hell, if Mrs. Huebner asked you to stop making out, and you did, she wouldn't give you a detention or anything further, even though she was supposed to. But no hugs or gestures of even friendship allowed ever? That's the most draconian thing I've ever heard of. - Troika37, on 11/13/2007, -28/+249Political correctness gone horribly horribly awry. (Of course, is there any other way for it to go?)
- crimson117, on 11/13/2007, -1/+182Welcome, my son, to the machine.
- DoubleDouble, on 11/13/2007, -1/+159So, I guess we need to change the saying to "Drugs not Hugs"
- lnf69, on 11/13/2007, -2/+132Showing affection for someone is poor judgment????????
- wellyuk, on 11/12/2007, -1/+128And don't email the school either:
mascoutahmiddle@mascoutah19.k12.il.us - objectcode, on 11/13/2007, -8/+134POLICE STATE
- AriaStar, on 11/12/2007, -1/+123Theoretically a smile can display affection. Detention for that next?
- inactive, on 11/12/2007, -3/+118Rules like that are meant to prevent making out, not a hug. Tell me, are the school officials sufficiently qualified? I think they dropped out of 5th grade.
- scallon, on 11/13/2007, -2/+117Forget what the kid should do:
“We don’t agree with it, but I certainly don’t want her to get in more trouble,” Coulter said.
The parents are ***** spineless. Go be a good mother and rip the principal a new *****. - navywifesandra, on 11/12/2007, -2/+111My 12 year old daughter just had detention last week for hugging someone...I am not sure how am supposed to raise a caring compassionate child only to send her off to school everyday and have it all erased..
- rockingrhino, on 11/12/2007, -1/+106Lets see, we wonder why we have a high drop out right in the US. Oh yeah, it is all these amazingly stupid rules that punish kids for the tinest thing. Common Sense left the building a long time ago.
- typicalusername, on 11/08/2007, -2/+97Maybe, they worry about random Lesbian action breaking out everywhere!
- driftwood07, on 11/12/2007, -0/+94what if you were caught making out with Mrs. Huebner?
- tonicboy, on 11/10/2007, -12/+105This has nothing to do with political correctness - there is nothing politically incorrect about public affection. Banning it does not serve to soothe the sensitivities of any ethnic, religious or social group. No my friend, this is social conservatism gone horribly horribly awry.
- imaclatchie, on 11/12/2007, -1/+94A hug is not PDA ... Frig, in Quebec, they kiss everyone they meet (even the first time) - on EACH cheek! They'd get expelled for sure!
- stympman, on 11/14/2007, -9/+99This Just In: A girl in New York complemented another girls dress. Got a week of detention. A boy in Texas said "hi" to a fellow classmate and received a one day suspension. Also a student in Florida talked to some else who was feeling down during recess and got expelled.
- themanmachine, on 11/12/2007, -2/+91Yeah, seriously. What the ***** has happened in the last 10 years to our public education system? I remember back when in between class periods meant make-out sessions in the hallway. No one got hurt.
- KrayzieKyd, on 11/12/2007, -7/+92How DARE you deny high schools of a little girl-on-girl action! You get detention!
- inactive, on 11/08/2007, -3/+83we dont need no education.
- bfaulk04, on 11/12/2007, -1/+79sounds like you need a hug... *opens arms*
- 1world, on 11/08/2007, -1/+77This is a new rule that is going to get old fast. This doesn't seem right.
- FunkyWitDaSysTm, on 11/10/2007, -1/+74next it will be against the rules to even LOOK at your fellow students.
"public displays of attention" they'll call it.
GET OFF MY LAWN! - airwalkery2k, on 11/12/2007, -1/+72Free hugs for all!
- tman84, on 11/08/2007, -2/+70zero tolerance policies do nothing but teach students to fall in line, and if people don't fall in line you snitch them out.
Do you want a chivato on every corner, man looking after you? Watching everything you do? Everything you say, man?
and what happened to hugs not drugs - CannedMango, on 11/12/2007, -1/+64Obviously hugging is a gateway action to Lesbianism.
- jackyyll, on 11/12/2007, -5/+64and don't read this comment either:
- kahlessreborn, on 11/10/2007, -4/+638th grade is High School Now? wow how do things change.
- R3PUBLIC0n, on 11/12/2007, -1/+60Zero tolerance policies breed intolerant youth. The world doesn't exist in black and white.
- stonedslacker, on 11/10/2007, -1/+56Nah. It's just that we don't need no thought control.
- wupike, on 11/11/2007, -3/+57Pedobear is not amused.
- inactive, on 11/12/2007, -0/+54then you'd have to stay after school for "extra classes"
- shadus, on 11/10/2007, -2/+52I'm glad my mother was more supportive of things when I was a kid. If I had been sucking face she'd have made me suck it up and goto detention, but for a hug she'd just have told the school to suck it on the detentions and let me enjoy a couple days off, wrote the papers in the area, been at the pto meetings, etc. This is grade a classic ***** stupidity.
- iceman0113, on 11/08/2007, -2/+52They should do what borninda818 said and just go on a mass hugging spree. Send a message to the authorities that this is a ridiculous rule and it should be changed. It also reminded me of a story dugg a while back: http://www.parentdish.com/2007/09/15/students-wear ...
- mrdeathgod, on 11/08/2007, -2/+51“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.”
My question is what braindead moron cooked this ***** up? I mean seriously, WTF. - jackyyll, on 11/08/2007, -4/+539/11
- FriskDown, on 11/08/2007, -2/+51Clearly, hugs are a bad thing.
- AriaStar, on 11/08/2007, -0/+49My parents told us to abide by their rules, not the school's, that, even if the school punished us for certain things, we would not be in trouble. This came in handy when I was bullied a lot and kids tried to hit me. The school said find a teacher, my parents said that gave the bullies more time to whoop my ass.
Kids need to know their parents are behind them more than the school. Let her hug her friends, yell at the school each time, congratulate her daughter for doing what's right and treat her to ice cream. Teach her it's okay to do the right thing even when someone else says not to. She'll be a free-thinker that way with her own conscience not formed by trying to stay in the school's mold. It's those kids not afraid to stand up to authority for what's right who go on to make the much-needed changes in this world. - ByteGuerilla, on 11/12/2007, -1/+48***** I lost the game.
- norman619, on 11/08/2007, -3/+48I like unwrapping things. Don't you?
- aduzik, on 11/13/2007, -0/+42Hmm... whatever happened to hugs not drugs? So, since they've banned hugs, can we assume that they're tacitly approving of drug use?
- Wendigo6x3, on 11/08/2007, -0/+40dude, he told you not to...wtf.
- Gigabutt, on 11/08/2007, -3/+42my friend and I called the school back-to-back, reading the definitions for asinine and draconian. the secretary wasn't very appreciative.
- jerrolds, on 11/08/2007, -4/+40Hug it out, bitch.
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