Posted on 11/06/2007 5:04:37 PM PST by Coleus
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.
"I feel it is crazy," said Megan, who was to serve her second detention Tuesday after classes at Mascoutah Middle School. "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.
"It's hilarious to the point of ridicule," Coulter said. "I'm still dumbfounded that she's having to do this." 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." Coulter said she and her husband told their daughter to go ahead and serve her detentions because the only other option was a day of suspension for each skipped detention.
"We don't agree with it, but I certainly don't want her to get in more trouble," Coulter said. The couple plan to attend the next school board meeting to ask board members to consider rewording the policy or be more specific in what is considered a display of affection.
"I'm just hoping the school board will open their eyes and just realize that maybe they shouldn't be punishing us for hugs," Megan said.
You can’t say “public school” and “common sense” together.
When I was h.s. the girls and guys hugged and it was no big deal. Their pep rallies must be a blast. Do they still have pep rallies in school now? I never hear it about it. I must be getting old.
I'm so thankful I was in h.s. in the last 80s. None of this Nanny State b.s.
ah yes, I forgot about no dodgeball...my own school system was one of the ones that banned it, all because some kid didn’t like getting hit with a foam ball. But they didn’t ban lacrosse when someone got hit in the eye with a lacrosse ball and was in the hospital with blurred vision for four hours...
Also the PE department wussed out and switched to nerf basketball for awhile over the fear that some ditz might sue if she broke a nail. People are so damn touchy these days.
Well no, it started occurring to me in 7th grade (before that I was too young to notice/care), but it would sound weird if I said “after seven years of it”...makes it sound like I dropped out.
Kinda short on the forplay cirriculum aren't they?
Reply of the... Well, it's the best I've read since joining back in the last century. Way to go!
The inmates are running the insane asylum.
Public schools are no longer educational institutions. They’re prisons for kids.
It’s sad isn’t it? I used to hug everyone in school. In eighth grade I used to hug my choir teacher. You know what would happen with that now.
LOL..
Damn, you’re slow. I’d had it by the second month of 1st grade.
I already knew how to read long before I hit school, so I was incredibly bored by most of the classwork, and finished long before most of the others (speed was a specialty of mine). My mom sent me to school with a book to read while I was waiting for the rest of the class to finish, so I wouldn’t get in trouble, and dang, don’t you know I got in trouble for ... reading !!
I hated school after that.
Public schools were never about academics from their inception - they were always primarily about proper “socialization”.
When I was in grade 1, during the class Christmas party our teacher thanked each of us for our gifts with a kiss. If she tried that today I don’t know what would land her in more trouble, the kisses or celebrating Christmas.
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Not surprising. In grade six I got in trouble in geometry class for getting the right answer; using trigonometry was verboten.
Well, they let the kids have sex but there’s hell to pay if they have a cigarette afterwards.
Well I never got in trouble for reading or anything ridiculous like that, but I never liked school at any point during my public school days. But the PCness never hit me until I was 12 or 13, because I didn’t know what it was before then.
Not prisons, but re-education camps. By limiting even rudimentary displays of affection, they are ensuring an emotionally void atmosphere, which they then fill with their “caring” lefthinking.
Brainwashing 101, people. Hitler youth did it, cults do it, because it works. And no, I’m not kidding. Not one bit.
In Typing class in high school I couldn’t get the ASDF thing down. So I started doing my own thing - my speed increased, my accuracy increased... my grades increased. And the teacher scolded me for that.
"God made the Idiot for practice, and then He made the School Board."
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