Keep yer hands off!! No hugging, handholding, high-fiving.

Just when you think it couldn't get any stupider...it does.
(That's going to make their football team really suck.)

School penalizes students for hugs, high-fives
Strict no-contact rule, meant to stem violence, has some pushing for change

June 18, 2007
VIENNA, Va. - A rule against physical contact at a Fairfax County middle school is so strict that students can be sent to the principal's office for hugging, holding hands or even high-fiving.

Unlike some schools in the Washington area, which ban fighting or inappropriate touching, Kilmer Middle School in Vienna bans all touching — and that has some parents lobbying for a change.

Hugging was Hal Beaulieu's crime when he sat next to his girlfriend at lunch a few months ago and put his arm around her shoulder. He was given a warning, but told that repeat missteps could lead to detention.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19293872/?GT1=10056

I now consider my childhood years '60s-'70s as a complete blessing. Kids have no freedom anymore. :cry:

When a hug is a criminal act?

What would happen if they were caught making out? Life imprisonment? Execution?

This is just like Footloose. except it's hugging instead of dancing.

Handloose?

Yeah, go ahead, tell me how you live in Virginia
and how everyone there isnt like this.
Yadda,yadda,yeah.

and yes, it is prohibited. pda = public displays of affection.

It is very loosely enforced, but always there when needed.

It's gender-neutral; it covers the girls crawling into each other's laps, making out in whatever odd corners they can find, etc., as well as boy/girl contact. It's part of what starts in kindergarten in a K-8 school; respecting others' space by keeping out of it.

The high school doesn't have any prohibitions. My students come back to visit and describe all of the intimate contact that happens right outside the classroom door during passing periods, lol.

If you think that adolescents know where, and when, to draw the line between innocent, respectful contact and intrusive, or too-intimate-to-be-public contact, you might want to spend some time supervising large masses of them.

:silly:

But from the persecutive of my childhood, I can't recall it being a big deal.

Of course, times were different then. We didn't indulge in the degree of "publicity" that people do now. We had plenty of sex, lol. No abstinence for us. None of my acquaintances, male or female, were "virgin" by the time graduation rolled around. It was a time of more freedom, yet more innocence, too. Sex was for mutual fun, not a performance art.

In the current culture, as always, everything is about status in the pack. Girls are sex symbols and have to prove it, not just with the way they dress, make-up, etc., but in the way they perform. Publicly. Not all of them; maybe not even more of them. The displays and performances are just more blatant, more "in your face" for the whole purpose of stopping crowds.