no hugging in school!

[xnikki118x]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071106/ap_on_fe_st/odd_detention_for_hugging_2

Ill. student gets detention for hugging

Tue Nov 6, 5:56 PM ET

MASCOUTAH, Ill. - 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.

Seriously, what the fuck?

[bork]

WHAT A WHORE LOCK HER UP

This has got to be the dumbest thing I've heard all month this week today this past hour.  The parents should have stood up to the board more...absolutely ridiculous.

[xnikki118x]

I mean, where Ecro and I went to high school people would make out in the hallways. Sometimes a teacher would clear his or her throat and tell you to wait until after school or whatever but all in all it wasn't terrible.

Then again, lots of people have had sex on the school's stage, in the general stage area, in the band room...


Hugging though? Seriously, I see nothing PDA about a friendly hug.

[Ecrofirt]

I mean, where Ecro and I went to high school people would make out in the hallways. Sometimes a teacher would clear his or her throat and tell you to wait until after school or whatever but all in all it wasn't terrible.

Then again, lots of people have had sex on the school's stage, in the general stage area, in the band room...


Hugging though? Seriously, I see nothing PDA about a friendly hug.

LULZ, hugs are affectionate.

Silly ass.

[huckleberry]

Eat a candy cigarette as a kid and you will suck a cock for rock as an adult.  Its a fact.

[FlameOfCallandor]

This is the kind of bullshit Zero tolerance gets us.

[Ecrofirt]

Eat a candy cigarette as a kid and you will suck a cock for rock as an adult.  Its a fact.

So that's why I've always got cock in my throat! I never knew. I never knew.

[Tauntaun]

Eat a candy cigarette as a kid and you will suck a cock for rock as an adult.  Its a fact.

So that's why I've always got cock in my throat! I never knew. I never knew.

man that's kind of gay, do you get beat up at metal shows....WAIT WHO'S SUCKIN TEH COX?!?? 

[Bloodwake]

Welcome to Kentucky.

No shit. Hugs got you in trouble at my high school and middle school too.

It is fucking distinguished mentally-challenged, you know, like most public schools manage to be.

[MrAngryFace]

One state they hand out birth control, another state they give detention for hugging.

Oh the comedy.

[Phoenix Dark]

Coulter? 

I only hug family members and like one girl. Everyone else gets a sturdy handshake

[recursivelyenumerable]

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."

This is very wise but they should go further and forbid persons on campus from having emotions of any kind.

[Enl]

Excellent...I can't even walk down the street without getting accosted by 10 year olds who want to hug me. The next step is to ban all eye contact. That'll teach them to look at me funny. I love my country and its freedom to have the freedom to punish the kind act of hugging.

[Phoenix Dark]

I only hug family members and like one girl. Everyone else gets a sturdy handshake

That way you can't catch the gay.

Well it has led to many awkward situations where someone has tried to hug me, but I whip up my hand first. One day I'm gonna accidentally grab a boob and wind up in prison

[recursivelyenumerable]

One day I'm gonna accidentally grab a boob and wind up in prison

or in her apartment.

[Phoenix Dark]

I dread both scenarios

[Ichirou]

One day I'm going to hug PD, and while I'm at it, I'll try to grab his firm buttocks...and gently squeeze.

[Himu]

"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."

  wtf?