Posted on 04/06/2006 2:10:16 PM PDT by SmoothTalker
" A family in Maynard is outraged after their 5-year-old daughter was forced to write a letter denouncing hugging after a classmate embraced her."
"NewsCenter 5's Amalia Barreda reported that Brenda Brier and Michael Marino pulled their daughter, Savannah, out of school early Wednesday. The couple was angry after a meeting with officials at the Greenmeadow Elementary School in Maynard, where Savannah is in kindergarten."
"At issue is a hug Savannah said she got on the playground from a friend named Sophie. Savannah hugged Sophie back. The hugs resulted in Savannah having to write a letter, complete with teacher corrections, that read, "I touch Sophie because she touch me and I didn't like it because she was hugging me. I didn't like when she hugged me."
"She said, 'I'm really sad that I got in trouble for hugging,'" Brier said."
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i think you got it exactly right!
0 tolerance of children.
when chicken fingers are outlawed, only outlaws will have chicken fingers.
"Well, several districts are planning to have training for the new teachers as to how to avoid having sex with minor students."
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THAT should solve the problem!
"Can we all get a grip, please? Geez."
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that's EXACTLY the kind of liberal logic that is RUINING this country!!
(I'm just kidding.)
i was kidding.
"Then we might be able to split off into some Red State/ZBlue State groupings and at least have some sanity in our respective zones."
No, we have to root these commies/idiots/illegals out. This is the United States.
Most government schools have "no tolerance" policies regarding PDAs (Public Displays of Affection).
PDAs are verboten. This poor child unwittingly ran afoul of the rules.The bigger question is, why do "conservative" parents keep sending their children off to be indoctrinated in these wretched places?
"A hug is bad and yet teaching kids about oral sex and homosexuals is okay. Amazing the country we live in."
I think the idea is for the kids to become as psychologically confused as possible, that way when they get older they are more easily manipulated.
doh! :D
NYC introducing AIDS education to kindergartners.
We will be living with the aftermath of Columbine forever.
That takes the prize for the most bizarre action by a teacher. Bar none.
Yes.
You can pledge to always ask, in any given situation, "What would Common Sense have me do?" ;-)
Now, now, let's not be too hasty in our judgement.
It makes perfect sense when you look at it objectively.
You see, Christians will frequently engage is that sort of display of friendship, thus, for the school to tolerate it, they would be allowing the expression of a religion other than Islam on public property.
There, you see? It wasn't such a heavy-handed measure after all, and inshallah, it won't become one.
And to think, this could all have been avoided, if only one of those kids had the presence of mind to look up at the teacher and say, "It's OK, we're lesbians"!
The schools are out of control
Oh good Lord, not AGAIN!
This is NOT the first time this has happened.
How many more similar tragedies will it take before those IDIOTS stop allowing children to have access to chicken fingers?
Chicken fingers in the public schools. In the hands of children!
Incredible!
Hey! I notice that the Freepathon is going on...
(Wanders off to check budget.)
I take it you haven't been watching the news lately?
Mine was a Velvet Jones.
(What, am I dating myself???) :)
Words cannot describe how disgusted and sickened I am about such crap as this. Someone needs to be in this administrator's face with a boatload of rightious indignation!
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