Posted on 10/02/2007 11:27:09 AM PDT by JZelle
Victoria Sharts likes hugs. In fact, the principal of Julian Middle School in Oak Park said she could have used one herself Monday.
Her announcement last week asking students to refrain from extreme hugging in hallways sparked a media response that caught her off guard, she said. Over the weekend, she had to issue an emergency parent response to dispel rumors of an outright ban on hugging anywhere in the school.
Regardless of what parents have heard or read, the directive to the school's roughly 800 students is to quit clasping one another in the hallways, because group hugs are creating logjams that make it difficult to get to class, she said.
"We appreciate hugs," Sharts said. "We know there are times that hugs are needed and welcomed, but every 40 minutes in the hallway, with large groups of students—then it's not."
The hugging also makes crowd control difficult, she said. There is also a concern by school officials that the hugs can be unwanted or become inappropriate when the embrace goes on a bit too long.
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Yet Muslims can make any rule they want, Teachers can molest their students, and Communism indoctrinated.
But no, Hugs are horrible.
I think she touched me. Where’s my lawyer?
LOL. maybe they did the right thing. :P
I can’t stand it when men hug. They never used to.
Arizona 14 yr. olds disciplined for HUGGING on campus
Jan. 25, 2002
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/615652/posts
Minnesota school bans hugging
February 27, 2001
http://cnnstudentnews.cnn.com/2001/fyi/teachers.ednews/02/23/school.hugs.ap/
Great Britain: School ban on hugging (“To avoid putting anyone at risk, please avoid hugging.” )
November 4, 2006
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1732942/posts
group hugs in the hallways?....get your butt in a chair and open a math book!
Students do this on purpose. They do it for attention, and also to jam the halls. I also suspect, but can’t prove, that there are drugs and money changing hands right in the middle.
No hugs. Cut to the chase, take a condom and go all the way.
It's quite common in many cultures---Italian, for example. And French.
So what she’s doing is locking down a young man’s chance of any incidental boobal contact until he graduates from high school. What a freaking nazi.
Maybe in your world. Real men are secure enough to give each other big back-slapping hugs. When I see my old friends after a long absence they deserve more than an awkward handshake or some stupid punch on the shoulder.
naaa this must be a girl thing. Something we will never understand.
Do you really think greeting family a couple times a year is what I meant?
I was trying to state the same idea, but couldn't come up with the appropriate term. "Boobal" hits the nail, thanks!
Islamic, too.
My sons all hug me. Let me see... my grandsons hug me. My dad will hug me (he’s 71 now). Hmm.. I have at least two very close friends whom I’ve been in some bad situations with, who hug me. I hug them back. haha. There’s former waiter at a place my wife and I eat regularly will hug me if he sees me (that one’s not comfortable but he’s a nice guy, has a girl friend and he’s young - like 23. So, it’s tolerated.) Ok. That’s the whole list. So... some guys do hug. Nothing wrong with it, depending on the circumstances, eh?
Nice try.
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