This story was all the rage yesterday on MSNBC and I never got around to talking about it though I expect this is one of those stories that myself and probably 99.9% of my readers can agree on. There’s been a few girl lately in middle school finding themselves given detention and / or suspensions for hugging classmates. Some of the same sex. In a non-sexual manner. One of the girls was hugging a friend who’s father had died.
You can’t even play devil’s advocate for the other side of the argument because it’s pretty much indefensible. You can’t tell the difference between normal hugging between friends and knock out drag out hands in each others “pockets” groping hugging? There’s a shitload of problems in schools and I can guarantee you one of them isn’t hugging. How the hell do you confuse hugging with inappropriate touching?
One of the girls was on MSNBC yesterday and was somewhat of a strange one I will say, holding hands with her mom throughout the entire interview. I’m guessing she’s just very girly girl. She mentioned that after the media started jumping on the story her principle called her into the office along with her friends and basically threatened her, saying that one of them was talking too much to the media and it needed to end. Her friends have been targeted by staff and are constantly on watch looking to leap into action at the slightest provocation.
Why not worry more about bullying? Or I dunno, stupid kids that are allowed to graduate despite their stupidity? Or is this whole thing some kind of weird pseudo sex ed lesson where the schools are banning any shows of affection at all because they’re afraid that one thing may lead to another or something? I’m only suggesting that because of a stop I made at another blog yesterday that discussed the lack of sex education nowadays and how teachers think the best way to teach kids is to simply pretend it doesn’t exist.
Nothing would surprise me, it’s a crazy world. Hell, look at the stuff I cover every day.
MSNBC: Hugging Is Wrong
