No hugging, dammit!
I thought this story was the perfect example of people who get so wrapped up in the rules of life that they completely throw common sense out the window: Girls Get Detention for Hugging .
MASCOUTAH, Ill. – Two hugs equals two days of detention for 13-year-old Megan Coulter.
The eighth-grader was punished for violating a school policy banning public displays of affection when she hugged two friends Friday.
“I feel it is crazy,” said Megan, who was to serve her second detention Tuesday after classes at Mascoutah Middle School.
“I was just giving them a hug goodbye for the weekend,” she said.
Am I the only one who thinks this makes the teachers fit the perfect stereotype of the crabby spinster hall monitor that you see on Saturday morning cartoons? Their school manual clearly states that affection is against the rules…
“Displays of affection should not occur on the school campus at any time. It is in poor taste, reflects poor judgment, and brings discredit to the school and to the persons involved.”
Yes, I agree. It’s the “huggers” that are discrediting your school, bureaucracy, and the entire education system. I wonder if this group also prohibits dancing on the grounds that when yer movin that fast, them demons get rite in ya.
(This post first appeared on my Bitter Women Humor Blog.)
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What we need is for Kevin Bacon to come into town, show those anti-huggers what the real deal is and save the town by having a big hugfest.
Right, frogster…back in my Mom’s day, Mickey Rooney, Judy Garland and “the gang” would have gathered at the Malt Shop, said a lot of “golly” and “gee whiz”, eventually resulting in a Broadway show presented in someone’s garage or barn. After that, the world would return to spinning once-per-24, the grouches slinking off into the darkness where they belong. Final shot: exterior of HS showing all 35 students in a group hug.
{Sigh} Them wuz the days.
Absolutely ridiculous! The teacher should get detention!… in fact, I think suspension! For shame!
Hey now! did ya have to say, “crabby” spinster? LOL!
I think the rules they have in the schools now are ridiculous! But then, I think the whole political correctness thing has run way outa control too. There’s a whole lot of things I think are crap lately.
I should run for President.
I guess it kills the whole DARE “Hugs not Drugs campaign huh? what a disaster.
That teacher must have some very strange ideas about natural and innocent affection between children.
Creepy and nasty.
Someone should give her a big tongue kiss. That would give her a good reason to hand out detention.
That teacher is obviously a hugless hag. She or he is not getting any hugs, so maybe he or she decided to ban hugs altogether. That way it doesn’t feel so bad not getting hugged.
Perhaps we should start a hug-a-hag day. Search out all of the hugless hags who hate hugging and hand them a hearty hug.
Hopefully they might learn to love hugging and rescind their ridiculous ban on hugs. What kind of person bans hugs, anyway?
What is it with people today that think any affectionate touching has a sexual undertone?
If this hag had seen my childhood, she’d shit a brick.
When you entered my group of friends back in “the day” (2 years ago) you lost all age, sex, race, or relationship status. Hugging, running out late at night through the city, falling asleep in a big pile…
I wonder how many days of detention I would’ve gotten if I had been caught on my sixteenth birthday, when it was decided that I had to give out 16 kisses by the end of the day?