Va. School's No-Contact Rule Is a Touchy Subject

WaPo ^ | June 18, 2007 | Maria Glod

[Constitutionalist Conservative]

A December 2005 article in the LA Times (about a California school) had the same cheesy pun in the title.

[Rummyfan]

Our schools are run by idiots and pedants. That any student manages to navigate them with their brains still intact is a miracle.

[RDTF]

((just shaking my head))

[nyconse]

This is so true-how can you ask students to respect such moranic rules and the idiots who make up such rules. What happens is kids decide not to listen to or believe anything these fools tell them. Who can blame them?

[quikdrw]

I agree. You just know that some committee came up with this. And no one saw how stupid it really was.

[Horatio Gates]

I suppose the varsity football team actually plays flag football to keep with the policy

[ClearCase_guy]

Government schools are expensive baby sitters. Policies of these baby sitting institutions have been created principally to guard against those children who have been raised by parents who haven't taught their children any rules or standards.

[Hegemony Cricket]

Well, I guess “Good Touch - Bad Touch” is out the window...

[dakine]

Then I guess swirlies are out of the question...

[massgopguy]

Chinese School has just begun, no more laughing, no more fun. If you show your teeth or tongue, you must pay a penalty.

[Constitutionalist Conservative]

Chinese School has just begun, no more laughing, no more fun.

I know this is tangential to your point, but I thought it worth a remark... In Chinese school classrooms, physical contact is impossible to avoid. I had the opportunity to visit a couple of high schools in PRC a few years ago. Each classroom had approx 50 students in it, and they were sitting literally shoulder-to-shoulder.

[massgopguy]

Didn’t the teacher’s union go on strike?

[CJ Wolf]

From the county that tells you how many trees to plant in your yard. Comply or go to jail. Glad I moved.

[Ghost of Philip Marlowe]

I wonder if these ridiculous rules were passed by the same people who say we need to stop going after petty criminals and that we have to let some criminals out of jail because we don’t have the people and infrastructure needed to enforce the laws.

[Mrs.Z]

My friend’s 12 YEAR OLD daughter had a boy walk up to her in the hall, pin her arms behind her and shove his tongue down her throat.

That’s SEXUAL ASSAULT.

Because no staff or faculty saw it, HE GOT AWAY WITH IT!

I say keep them apart.

[Constitutionalist Conservative]

I say keep them apart.

Mrs. Z, there's a universe of difference between sexual assault and a kid patting his buddy on the back.

[Sloth]

Because no staff or faculty saw it, HE GOT AWAY WITH IT! I say keep them apart.

How would a rule make a difference if nobody witnessed it?

[WesternPacific]

Our schools are run by idiots and pedants.

Our schools are controlled by idiot rabid parents, their lawyers and administers who cower down to them.

Lawyers, psychologist, activist parents, and a pacifist public have turned our public school system in to a failed social experiment.

[Mrs.Z]

Touching would be easier to prove and have a lighter “sentence”.

It would go on the record and maybe slow him from future garbage.

[Shannon]

Here’s the email address for the principal:
Deborah.Hernandez@fcps.edu