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Girl, 5, Forced To Apologize For Hugging Classmate
http://www.thebostonchannel.com/news/8491575/detail.html ^
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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TOPICS: Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: apology; hugging; kindergarten; publikskoolz; zerotolerance
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To: SmoothTalker
School administrator and teachers are out of control in this country. Their point of view must always prevail and their point of view is always the hard left position.
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posted on
04/06/2006 2:18:32 PM PDT
by
w1andsodidwe
(Jimmy Carter allowed radical Islam to get a foothold in Iran.)
To: Denver Ditdat
Thank you for your kind words (sniff.)
We'll all miss Common Sense terribly.
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posted on
04/06/2006 2:18:44 PM PDT
by
Sax
To: SmoothTalker
Kindergarten girls gone wild...
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posted on
04/06/2006 2:18:57 PM PDT
by
Geronimo
To: SmoothTalker
School Superintendent Mark Masterson told NewsCenter 5 there was a "dispute of the facts between a hug and a lifting of a child off the floor." If this was the case, then maybe that should have been addressed in the punishment and the note? If not, then what the teacher/school engaged in was simply abusive. Even worse than the stupidity I first thought they were executing.
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posted on
04/06/2006 2:19:34 PM PDT
by
lepton
("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into"--Jonathan Swift)
To: Joe Brower
Easier to push the agenda of aborting small children when small children don't care about their friends, comrade.
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posted on
04/06/2006 2:19:48 PM PDT
by
weegee
("CBS NEWS? Is that show still on?" - freedomson)
To: SmoothTalker
And all I can say is just...
...the hell?
}:-)4
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posted on
04/06/2006 2:19:49 PM PDT
by
Moose4
("I will shoulder my musket and brandish my sword/In defense of this land and the word of the Lord")
To: brwnsuga
It is a dark day indeed, when a little girl can't hug her friend on the playground. Nice to see that feminism and the indoctrination centers are doing such a good job.
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posted on
04/06/2006 2:20:05 PM PDT
by
unixfox
(The 13th Amendment Abolished Slavery, The 16th Amendment Reinstated It !)
To: SmoothTalker
Sick beyond belief. The parents did the right thing: pull the kid out of school and go somewhere else. Move out of state if you have to. This must not be tolerated any longer.
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posted on
04/06/2006 2:20:44 PM PDT
by
Clock King
("How will it end?" - Emperor; "In Fire." - Kosh)
To: cspackler
It warms my heart every day when I pick up my 4 year old from day care. There's always hugs with his buddies before he goes home.
Then he goes home and watches "Predator", "King Kong" or some other action movie. When it's time to wind down in the evening, we'll pull out a book and read it to him.
I took him to see "Ice Age 2" last week. We both enjoyed it immensely. We're making a return trip this weekend.
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posted on
04/06/2006 2:20:46 PM PDT
by
Night Hides Not
(Closing in on 3000 posts, of which maybe 50 were worthwhile!)
To: SmoothTalker
I love how the Boston Channel has a picture of the school, like it's a crime scene. I'm surprised it isn't roped off.
Yes, this is where the dirty deed took place.
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posted on
04/06/2006 2:21:41 PM PDT
by
Skooz
(Chastity prays for me, piety sings............Modesty hides my thighs in her wings......)
To: SmoothTalker
I am so sick of the liberal shit.
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posted on
04/06/2006 2:22:07 PM PDT
by
jwh_Denver
(I'm going postal on these freaking liberals insanities.)
To: OXENinFLA
Hey you think this teacher might have been TDY from 24, you know, chloe's new co worker.
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posted on
04/06/2006 2:22:32 PM PDT
by
eastforker
(Under Cover FReeper going dark(too much 24))
To: Joe Brower
Holy CR@#$. I live in Maynard. The school board will definitely be hearing from me on this. This may be the straw that finally breaks my back about living here in Massaholeachusetts.
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posted on
04/06/2006 2:23:01 PM PDT
by
skikvt
(7th Infantry Division, Buffaloes)
To: SmoothTalker
In NJ two little six year olds were taken to the police station to await pick up by their parents after pointing chicken fingers at each other in the cafeteria. They were pretending to shoot.
The schools are out of control
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posted on
04/06/2006 2:24:22 PM PDT
by
OldFriend
(AMERICA WOULD NOT BE THE LAND OF THE FREE IF IT WERE NOT ALSO THE HOME OF THE BRAVE)
To: stinkerpot65
"Public schools are evil."
Because they are stock full of COMMUNISTS.
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posted on
04/06/2006 2:24:43 PM PDT
by
jocon307
(The Silent Majority - silent no longer)
To: SmoothTalker
If I had been the parent, I would have written an apology to the school for bashing the school adminstrators in the head.
To: eastforker
The word you used, "co worker" is improperly divided, the correct hypenation is COW-ORKER.
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posted on
04/06/2006 2:26:07 PM PDT
by
Rodentking
(There is no God but Yahweh and Moses is his prophet - http://www.airpower.blogspot.com/)
To: unixfox
I guess the only touching in schools is the touching that has been going on between teachers and teen aged boys lately........
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posted on
04/06/2006 2:26:31 PM PDT
by
brwnsuga
(Black, Proud, Conservative!)
To: Night Hides Not
I took him to see "Ice Age 2" last week.That's on the docket with my daughter, I haven't gotten a lot of feedback on it. We like the first one a lot, I hope the second holds up.
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posted on
04/06/2006 2:26:59 PM PDT
by
cspackler
(There are 10 kinds of people in this world, those who understand binary and those who don't.)
To: Denver Ditdat
common sense is not so common, anymore...
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posted on
04/06/2006 2:27:07 PM PDT
by
ronnied
(we are the only animals that bare our teeth in greeting...)
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