Posted on 03/20/2013 11:10:50 AM PDT by Morgana
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Maryland school district bans hugs, party invitations and birthday cake in post-Sandy Hook overhaul of security policies
As schools across the country tighten security in the aftermath of the Sandy Hook massacre, one Maryland school district is taking it to the extreme, banning everything from hugs to birthday cake.
St. Mary's County adopted the new security measures in its 17 public schools in the aftermath of the shooting in Newtown, Conn. that left 20 school children dead as well as six adults.
The new policy is meant to protect against a number of potential threats to children's safety, including food allergies, inappropriate contact between adults and minors, and even hurt feelings.
As schools across the country tighten security in the aftermath of the Sandy Hook massacre, one Maryland school district is taking it to the extreme, banning everything from hugs to birthday cake.
St. Mary's County adopted the new security measures in its 17 public schools in the aftermath of the shooting in Newtown, Conn. that left 20 school children dead as well as six adults.
The new policy is meant to protect against a number of potential threats to children's safety, including food allergies, inappropriate contact between adults and minors, and even hurt feelings.
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Another one
Just wait until some wacko hollows out a textbook...
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Won’t be long before the TSA is at all school entrances.
Looks like only criminals will have hugs, party invitations and birthday cake now.
Well, you never know when a terrorist will jump out of a birthday cake...
If it were a Chinese terrorist, he'd pop up and yell "SUPPLIES!!!"
I wondered at the fact that twenty-somethings don’t know any jokes and can’t tell one even if you give it to them. Then, I realized why. I went to work at a multinational company. I had to sign a 10 page “ethics” agreement. I actually angered the HR lady as I wouldn’t sign it until I had read it and she had to sit there while I did. Almost none of this “ethics” agreement dealt with ethics. It was a contract between me and the company, the violation of which, allowed them to dismiss me. Hidden among the latest PC was no hugging, no non-work related conversations, no use of email or the internet for personal reasons and, no jokes; none whatsoever of any type for any reason. I asked why. The HR lady said, in a tone implying I was an idiot for asking, “You have no idea who you might offend!” I have a rather spontaneous sense of humor. I sat down at a celebration of our new plant opening with our Navy customer. The Navy PM had a wonderful sense of humor. The HR lady was at the table too. The Navy PM, in his gravelly voice, said, “Gee, it’s a nice you place you got here.” I replied, “’Shame if something should happen to it.’ That is the next line, right?” Everybody laughed except the HR lady. She looked horrified. On another day I sat at lunch with a machinist who made his own guns. We discussed concealed carry and shooting on his land. The HR lady was behind me. I later heard about both conversations from my boss with an implied admonishment. I said that both of those conversations were at lunch and the agreement specified business hours. He said, “Just the same, be careful.”
This insane PCing of America is damaging our culture in too many ways to count.
LOL
I figured it would be Montgomery or PG Counties. St. Mary’s was a little surprising.
We were not allowed to have parties in school though I think Christmas parties were allowed. This was in the 1970s. My comrades and I were rebels though. We had parties all the time. We would “surprise” our teacher with a party every now and then. We would plan all the details ourselves. We thought we were so smart and that we were getting away with some horrible awful crime. One year, we had everything in place for our party, and we were waiting for our teacher to return to the classroom. We waited in our cubbyholes (they were tall and had room for us to fit in them), and when our teacher opened the door, we were all ready to jump out to yell “surprise” at her. To our surprise, when we jumped out, our principal was the one at the door. We immediately wanted to crawl back into our cubbyholes. He laughed and laughed at us. It is one of the few times anyone saw him smile. He had known all along what we were doing. LOL He was the scariest principal ever. And he laughed at us! He allowed us to have our party and never stopped us in the following years. But we had to keep it a secret because he didn’t want anyone to know he was really a softie.
When does school ban school?
Sure, party invitations are right up there with a wacko blowing away all your classmates. Stuck on stupid.
Our 5-year-old daughter is a hugger.
She hugs just about every kid she meets. In stores, at the library, the zoo, everywhere; it doesn’t matter where. If she meets another kid around her age while she’s out and about, she hugs ‘em.
About 70 percent of the time when she tries to hug a kid, they shy away and look extremely uncomfortable, as if someone were molesting them or something.
So, having a scientific mind and being naturally curious, whenever our daughter hugs another kid, I always strike up a conversation with the parents and try to squeeze in the question as to if their child is homeschooled or goes to public school or a preschool.
Interestingly enough, the children who go to a public school or a preschool are Nth times more likely to shy away from getting a free hug than those who are homeschooled.
Anyway, my analysis of the situation?
The schools are apparently breeding a crop of socially maladjusted, emotionless children to lead us into the new Ameritopia.
And these Lefturds and Libtards who are responsible for maladjusting these poor kids are the same ones who think homeschooled children are the ones with the social problems.
Pffft!
Don’t forget Maryland’s state motto: “If you can dream it, we can tax it. If you think it, we will fine it.”
The adventures in Looney Land continue. Stay tuned... the state legislature is still in session.
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