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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: NonValueAdded
"This is insane"

This is MA.

81 posted on 04/06/2006 3:15:08 PM PDT by spunkets
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To: Sender
Zero tolerance of everything. No knives, no flags, no faith, no hugging. Up against the wall, you children.

BUMP!!

82 posted on 04/06/2006 3:15:08 PM PDT by CedarDave (Memo to DNC: Change Katie's FAX # from NBC to CBS [courtsey Tarpon])
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To: TKDietz

You are correct. Good analysis. Healthy dose of skepticism.

If that was the case the school should have disciplined her for being to rough or hurting with another classmate, not for "hugging." It is too confusing to connect those two in the mind of a munchkin.


83 posted on 04/06/2006 3:16:16 PM PDT by pollyannaish
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To: Ghost of Philip Marlowe
We really, really need to deafened government-run education. 100% voucher refunds to whomever requests it.

I'd settle for 30%. California schools are presently getting about $11,000 per kid per year. Meanwhile I'm paying $3500 for a top notch Christian School where everyone is scoring in the 75+ percentile (of course my kids are all in the high 90s).

There are a lot of parents who could scrape together $1000 or $2000 a year, but no more. Even a small percentage of the $11,000 gummint dollars would begin to crack the system wide open.

84 posted on 04/06/2006 3:16:51 PM PDT by ElkGroveDan (California bashers will be called out)
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To: SmoothTalker

Not so much the country....its the times.


85 posted on 04/06/2006 3:17:07 PM PDT by TheGunny
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To: TKDietz
I'll write this one down as bad/sensationalistic reporting. Was it really a "hug" or was it two children fighting?

Most of these stories are only outrageous since the media wants them to sound outrageous. Sadly, the supermarket tabloid mentality has taken over.

86 posted on 04/06/2006 3:19:33 PM PDT by xrhopsiomega
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To: Blackirish

lol!!


87 posted on 04/06/2006 3:21:07 PM PDT by Huck (REINTRODUCE THE REID IMMIGRATION BILL!!!)
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To: weegee

> Easier to push the agenda of aborting small children when small children don't care about their friends, comrade.

WTF has that got to do with this thread?


88 posted on 04/06/2006 3:22:05 PM PDT by cloud8
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To: Geronimo

lol!!


89 posted on 04/06/2006 3:22:08 PM PDT by Huck (REINTRODUCE THE REID IMMIGRATION BILL!!!)
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To: skikvt

Head south as fast as you can and bring your money with you.It can be put to a much better use.


90 posted on 04/06/2006 3:22:57 PM PDT by xarmydog
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To: Skooz

lol!! i can't stop laughing. seriously, this IS sick, but there's a silver lining. one, y'all are hilarious. two, this stuff is just proving what idiots the libs are. young people especially know who's pulling this crap. let em pull this stuff. see where it gets them.


91 posted on 04/06/2006 3:23:28 PM PDT by Huck (REINTRODUCE THE REID IMMIGRATION BILL!!!)
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To: OldFriend
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.

Somebody ought to lose their job for that. This too.

92 posted on 04/06/2006 3:24:28 PM PDT by Flavius Josephus (War today is always cheaper than war tomorrow.)
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To: brwnsuga

Well, several districts are planning to have training for the new teachers as to how to avoid having sex with minor students.


93 posted on 04/06/2006 3:26:24 PM PDT by Flavius Josephus (War today is always cheaper than war tomorrow.)
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To: RVN Airplane Driver

Whah, I wuz jes gonna Hug Her Naaiick.


94 posted on 04/06/2006 3:27:25 PM PDT by Flavius Josephus (War today is always cheaper than war tomorrow.)
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To: TKDietz

I agree, good post.


95 posted on 04/06/2006 3:27:33 PM PDT by On the Road to Serfdom
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To: eastforker

Ummm... not so much, at least where I live. There's too much stinkin' hippie male huggin' goin' on for my likin'. But I'll hug a male *friend* if I feel genuine affection for him, I don't mind that. It's usually of the armhug/backslap variety though.


96 posted on 04/06/2006 3:29:45 PM PDT by Flavius Josephus (War today is always cheaper than war tomorrow.)
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To: SmoothTalker

My five year old daughter is in Pre-K... preschool paid for by the state.

Anyway, I pick her up twenty minutes before class ends, everyday. When we go to leave, she hugs everyone. All the boys and girls say, "I want my hug!" They hug like FRIENDS do. There is nothing bad about it. In fact, I am certain that she loves her friends. They are such a big part of her life.

If something like this happened at her school, I wouldn't place her in another Pre-K class. I'd just wait until kindergarten arrived, at the elementary.


97 posted on 04/06/2006 3:33:57 PM PDT by Pan_Yans Wife ("Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny. "--Aeschylus)
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To: jwh_Denver

Not soon enough I'm afraid. Not till the Mexicans take the southwest, exceptin' Texas, and the country goes through a serious, serious depression. 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. It doesn't seem likely now, but the Soviet Union collapsing didn't seem very likely either, and we aren't nearly as docile as their people had been trained to be.

What we have now is unsustainable.


98 posted on 04/06/2006 3:35:14 PM PDT by Flavius Josephus (War today is always cheaper than war tomorrow.)
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To: SmoothTalker
Masachusetts: We're All Victims
99 posted on 04/06/2006 3:40:16 PM PDT by pabianice
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To: stinkerpot65

Nonsense. Public schools are not evil, but some public schools have some evil people in them. You can find evil people in many other places, too. Can we all get a grip, please? Geez.


100 posted on 04/06/2006 3:45:10 PM PDT by NYpeanut (gulping for air, I started crying and yelling at him, "Why did you lie to me?")
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