Insane school rules
A couple of years ago, during the Kitzmiller vs Dover area School District case, I was pretty shocked by the behaviour of some members of the board that had tried to force ID into the science classroom. I’m starting to wonder if that was a special case, or if the whole purpose of school boards is to introduce totally off-the-wall-loopy rules.
Take this case for example. This girl, Megan Coulter, has been given detention, not once, but twice, for… wait for it … hugging her friends. Yeah, that’s it. She wasn’t in class or anything, just hugging her friends goodbye at the end of the school day. Unfortunately for her, the school has a rule against “public displays of affection,” because — and this is from the students handbook — “It is in poor taste, reflects poor judgment, and brings discredit to the school and to the persons involved.”
That’s right. displaying affection towards your friends shows poor taste and brings discredit to you. What the hell planet are these people from? It reads like something from the fifties.
oh definitely, school boards have been enforcing ridiculous rules.
last year (I’m currently freshman, so it was in 8th grade, yes i know I’m young) i too was written out a detention for hugging a girl i was, and still am in a relationship with.
we both had to serve morning detentions,
the “reason” for the detention was also public displays of affection, my principal called to both of our houses, to tell our parents we were kissing in the hall, although we were merely hugging each other goodbye at the end of the day.
is there a reason that affection is such a terrible behavior?
why should we be taught to show absolutely no emotion?
how can a public school determine if we’re aloud to hug each other?
i hope i don’t have to answer these questions, they’re all ridiculous as it is.
You have my sympathy Eli. It’s an appalling state of affairs when two people can’t hug each other without being treated like delinquents. Maybe, maybe, if you’d been making out or something, I could understand a ticking-off, but even then going to your parents is just way out of line.
I think the telling question here is whether the response would have been the same if it was you and a boy, instead of another girl. I’m betting not.