OAK PARK, Ill. (Oct. 2) - If you need a hug, you won't get it at Percy Julian Middle School. Principal Victoria Sharts banned hugging among the suburban Chicago school's 860 students anywhere inside the building. She said students were forming "hug lines" that made them late for classes and crowded the hallways.
"Hugging is really more appropriate for airports or for family reunions than passing and seeing each other every few minutes in the halls," Sharts said.
Another reason to institute the no-hugging policy was that some hugs could be too long and too close, she said.
"There is another side to the issue when a hug is either unwanted or becomes inappropriate as judged by one of the students involved," Sharts wrote in a statement to parents. "On occasion, we do deal with those incidents. The goal is always to promote safe and orderly hallways where everybody can get by, be safe, and be on time."
Of course!! Hugs lead to fondling. Fondling leads to sex. Sex leads to AIDS and all the students will start dying enmasse!
AND it's the primary cause of tardiness to class! The students are so busy having a hug orgy they forget to go to class on time.
We weren't allowed to do anything like that either. We had to have a specific amount of space between each other and hugging was considered PDA. If we got caught hugging we would get a warning and then a detention.
but hugging is really stupid in my school...it seems so stupid...girls will say hi across the room and shuffle across to give you a hug...but i try not to complain...and waving like two feet from each other...
Nah, more like it wants to be this quaint little perfect town. It's a bit strange, though unlike most of the suburbs around here there's actually stuff to do there.
(Oak Park is one of the two towns around here that everyone hangs out with during high school and stuff. Still a kind of strange town though)
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Illnois Middle School Bans Hugs....
Oct 2nd, 2007 11:29 PM
with thanks to the awesome Cresh
