as some of you might have watched the video on yahoo's current feature video, how do you feel about the school giving detention to a 13 year old girl for hugging her friends in a way of good bye?
this is what i personally think..
i think that its the administrators or vice principals that happens to be jerks or over using their authority on doing what they feel comfortable doing. of course, this is ridicoulous. i think the girl should call up a bunch of people (friends and families) and hug each other in front of the school. im assuming this will become a bigger issue later on and the super attendant of the district will eventually have to apoligize to the public and explain.
what do YOU think?
2007-11-07 14:11:33 · 27 answers · asked by james k 1 in Education & Reference ➔ Primary & Secondary Education
i just wished the parents filed a report or something to sue the school for it to become a big issue just so that the person who i assume a vice principal, would feel embarressed and ashame of what he or she has done and realize that hugging is not a big deal. its a big of a deal at all.
2007-11-07 14:19:59 · update #1
also, i might add as a summary for those of you who dont know the story, apparently a 13 year old girl hugged 2 of her friends as a way of saying goodbye after school before she headed home and a school administrator had seen it and gave her 2 detentions.
what do you think of this action?
2007-11-07 14:23:57 · update #2
I do not know what you are talking about but I have to believe there is more to the story. Schools don't ban friendly hugs. Maybe the school is simply finding a way to ban inappropriate public displays of affection between opposite AND same sex couples.
There HAS to be more to the story.
EDIT: Okay...I watched the video, which was on Fox News, which makes me even more suspicious of its accuracy. I still say, there has to be more to the story. If not, the rule is probably wrong. But maybe there has been issues with kids "making out" in the hallways and making everyone else uncomfortable? Maybe the "hugs" have been a way to pass drugs? I don't mean necessarily THIS girl....just in general....and this is the only thing the school could come up with. I will say this: schools do often have a way with over-enforcing "zero tolerance" type rules. Like the kid who several years ago dressed up as a fireman with a plastic ax and got expelled for having a "weapon." Or the kid who shared a legal drug (I forget what it was...aspirin or something) who got expelled because of a "zero tolerance" for drugs.
I'm sure more will be heard about this case. But I think I'll try to follow the story somewhere besides Fox News. I don't trust a word they say.
Thumbs-Downers...you may now commence clicking me.
2007-11-07 14:16:03 · answer #1 · answered by Yinzer from Sixburgh 7 · 1⤊ 5⤋
I will give a teachers perspective. I tell students all of the time to break it up. They start by hugging and then they start kissing and many a lot more. One boy had his arm around a girls neck on her shoulders innocent looking at first and when I was about to tell him to take his arm off of her he grabbed her chest. What is so hard about keeping your hands off of each other for that short period of time. My wife and I are both teachers, how would students feel if she and I did the same thing in the halls? A girl hugs a girl and people say that should be ok, it is innocent. Then lesbian teens are hugging and homosexual boys get upset because the girls are allowed so we then have to allow them to hug, then the straight kids get upset because the homosexual kids are allowed so now we have to let them. It was said by her mother, where do we draw the line. We did, it was with hugs. High Fives and holding hands are allowed.
It is unproffesional and innapropriate while at school. If the parents do not mind that is fine. It is a rule and therefore should be enforced more and obeyed. Lets get real, the school is not the proper place for that kind of behavior. It is a place for learning not a place for socializing.
Many boys hug girls not for the affection but for other reasons we are all aware of.
2007-11-07 14:43:30 · answer #2 · answered by HSMathTeacher 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
The entire school board should be flatly fired. No ifs ands or buts.
BTK and other sociopaths form due to the ongoing lack of love and affection that exists in society. There are no coincidences in this respect.
I'm not just about protests. I want all and any who approve and enforce this kind of crap to be drummed out of the school system and all future ones. Immediately.
If I was a parent of a child in this district I would tell my child to purposely go to school and hug their friends in protest. A great big FU to the school and all of its nazi-minded freaks.
This has gone way too far and I don't even wanna HEAR any excuses from fruit loops trying to play Devil's Advocate.
I wanna see some firings for this stupid crap.
John Lucas
2007-11-07 15:47:25 · answer #3 · answered by johnlucas31320 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
here's the deal... the rule was broken. you have to have a zero tolerance when its comes to these rules. kids go to school to learn. you can't make exceptions to the rules like this because the flood gates will open on what is acceptable and what isn't. a hug is a public display of affection per their rules, which the parents acknowledged. you can not get into what is a friendly hug and what it a improper hug. who would make that determination? a kid, a parent, teacher, state official? they only way to make sure nothing inappropriate happens is to ban all of the hugs. it sucks but its a lesson these kids need to learn. rules are made for a reason. you should abide by them or face punishment.
2007-11-07 14:21:45 · answer #4 · answered by Fighting Racoon 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Hugging is personal; what the school has done is punish her for exercising her own right. It does kind of depend on the hug though... However I don't think they did the right thing by giving her detention.
I hug people all the time and no one's ever given me any kind of punishment. I have to wonder what her parents think of all this. I'm sure they find it very strange; as I do.
I do think they'll have to apologize for this; as for explaining or excuses, they cannot possibly.
2007-11-07 14:18:18 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
I live within 30 minutes of this silly school, and they are kidding themselves...I mean, hugs lead to sex, so start the ban at the hug level? Ridiculous.
Sometimes people just need a hug. They should worry about bigger and better things.
Lordy!
2007-11-07 14:16:49 · answer #6 · answered by idahostudios 3 · 2⤊ 1⤋
The protest shoal have been when the rule was first announces an not now.
I think that the girl was punished more for not following the rule than for the actual hugs.
2007-11-08 00:22:24 · answer #7 · answered by DrIG 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
What?! I would be outraged! My and my friends do that all the time. Everyday, when we're about to go home we hug each other. No one ever says anything about that! I think that is so stupid. I hope that girl does something to get back at her school.
2007-11-07 14:43:24 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
My dad had a saying years back which applies to this situation . Question? " Why are there so many more horses asses than there are horses?" Many civil servants, educators included fall into this category. They didn't have the smarts for the professions or business so they went into education and got elevated to management. Yes now they have authority.
2007-11-07 14:22:14 · answer #9 · answered by googie 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
I bet if you hit someone upside the head you would get less punishment. Everyone should write the Mascoutah Middle School in Mascoutah Il and tell them they are wrong on this one. You can easily google the school for their email address
2007-11-07 14:16:40 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋