..administrators said such policies are standard-issue at middle schools across the country.
"Really, all we're trying to do is create an environment that's focused on learning, and learning proper manners is part of that," said Dave Haack, the principal of Cascade Middle School, also in Bend. "This is not us being the romance police."
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To: NormsRevenge
Well, if one sees how some of 'em "hug" and where the hands go during the hug......
2 posted on
05/15/2005 9:16:58 PM PDT by
GummyIII
("Never offend people with style when you can offend them with substance.")
To: NormsRevenge
If non-heteros did it, the school would applaud/celebrate it.
3 posted on
05/15/2005 9:17:18 PM PDT by
Stellar Dendrite
(How soon will the U.S.A. be U.S.S.A.?)
To: NormsRevenge
We need to get rid of public schools, bad.
4 posted on
05/15/2005 9:19:45 PM PDT by
tahotdog
To: NormsRevenge
I'm glad such a policy is in place. Imagine all the things that might end up happening if two teenagers were allowed to hold hands while walking to school nurse's office to pick up their free condoms.
To: NormsRevenge
Wow. A policy that actually makes sense.
And in a government run school no less. What's this world coming to.
7 posted on
05/15/2005 9:25:19 PM PDT by
Texas Eagle
(If it wasn't for double-standards, Leftists would have no standards at all)
To: NormsRevenge
They're always bitching about not having the resources to teach the basics, yet they have time for this crap.
8 posted on
05/15/2005 9:32:47 PM PDT by
Darkwolf
(aka Darkwolf377 (lurker since'01, member since 4/'04)--stop clogging me with pings!)
To: NormsRevenge
Beware "zero-tolerance". Hate it, fear it, destroy it.
To: NormsRevenge
PC is turning this country into a repressive socialistic and aetheistic regime.
To: NormsRevenge
It's no wonder kids leave school thinking that rules are made to be broken. They have parents who keep telling them that the rules aren't for them. These parents need to get a life.
To: NormsRevenge
Liberal hypocrisy. Hey, I thought libs believed in making love, not war. I guess the only hugs
verboten are of the heterosexual variety. Its dangerous for kids to see opposite sex affection as normal and natural.
(Denny Crane: "Sometimes you can only look for answers from God and failing that... and Fox News".)
12 posted on
05/15/2005 9:54:39 PM PDT by
goldstategop
(In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives On In My Heart Forever)
To: NormsRevenge
Oh how they crave for the Taliban. Come hither women, don ye Burqa.
Of all the trash in schools, they waste time on hugs. How very lame. Time to ban Valentines day card giving next - some of those WWF variety pack cards are *racy*.
Zero tolerance: because the world is black and white, and thinking is hard anyway.
To: NormsRevenge
Are friendly hugs banned as well? I know that when my girlfriends and I see each other we often hug, but it is in a sisterly way. I completely agree with any kissing ban, I saw two lesbian's making out at my high-school once, and it was extremely disturbing.
14 posted on
05/15/2005 9:59:12 PM PDT by
Celtic Rose
(It may be prudent in me to act sometimes by other men's reason, but I can think only by my own)
To: NormsRevenge
Wouldn't it be nice if parents actually took their kids to school with them after they were disciplined, and supported the schools side of things. Even if they disagree with the policy, just support the school, then talk things over with the principal on the sly.
15 posted on
05/15/2005 10:12:22 PM PDT by
jeremiah
(Is it not treason, to allow the flow of illegals to be unchecked?)
To: NormsRevenge
such policies are standard-issue?
I see, sell drugs in the parking lot, but don't dare get caught hugging. I could think of a few hundred other things that would be a higher priority to ban.
16 posted on
05/15/2005 10:15:57 PM PDT by
conshack
((Illegal immigration is the #1 threat to Homeland Security))
To: NormsRevenge
Students that age have absolutely no business "hugging" someone of the opposite sex. Courtship is the proper dating option and these students are too young to be involved in Courtship, since it should only be practiced as a precursor to possible marriage.
17 posted on
05/15/2005 10:18:42 PM PDT by
politicket
(We now live in a society where "tolerance" is celebrated at the expense of moral correctness.)
To: NormsRevenge
"I'm trying to understand what's wrong with a hug," said Swanson, 42. Others are more in favor of the rule, like Christina Barackman, 13, also a Pilot Butte seventh-grader. "I think they're nice to keep boundaries for kids," she said.
Interesting that a 13 year old can identify the reasoning behind the rule when the 42 year old cannot. The objection to this rule is just a further example of the breakdown of the distinctions between public and private behavior, which the left has promoted---the death of civility. I am a young woman, but when out and about these days, I am often taken aback by the public behavior of teenagers. They're simply not taught to have a public presence for the benefit of other people. There are many exceptions, of course, but for the most part it seems they have been encouraged to be selfish and self-centered individuals with little concept of decency, much less community.
18 posted on
05/15/2005 10:22:24 PM PDT by
newsworthy
(Culture is the engine of history.)
To: NormsRevenge
such policies are standard-issue?
What I think he means by that is that schools subscribe to policy "services," which keep abreast of the latest federal law/state law/caselaw regarding education and update policies to keep them in place. HOWEVER, school boards (such as the one I am a member of), have to review and approve these policies. And, there has to be common sense in the approval AND implementation.
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29 posted on
05/18/2005 7:02:22 AM PDT by
freepatriot32
(If you want to change government support the libertarian party www.lp.org)
To: NormsRevenge
When I went to school, it was the girls who made and enforced the "no hugging" rule. ;)
30 posted on
05/18/2005 7:04:24 AM PDT by
Mr. Jeeves
("Violence never settles anything." Genghis Khan, 1162-1227)
To: NormsRevenge
"The more people blindly accept these fundamental rights being taken away from them, the easier it becomes for them to be taken away," Swanson said.
31 posted on
05/18/2005 7:08:33 AM PDT by
freepatriot32
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