Comments on: OMG! They’re like hugging in school! http://www.jonathanramsey.com/omg-theyre-like-hugging-in-school.html Singing delightfully brash Irish songs of life, protest, longing, and shame. Sun, 12 Oct 2008 19:38:04 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 By: jonathan http://www.jonathanramsey.com/omg-theyre-like-hugging-in-school.html#comment-30407 jonathan Thu, 06 Mar 2008 04:28:32 +0000 http://www.jonathanramsey.com/omg-theyre-like-hugging-in-school.html#comment-30407 @Mary Kathryn: That's my point exactly. It's far too "knee-jerk" to pull the plug on all contact. My oldest daughter is in public school. I carry the drama queen gene, apparently, so I've seen the girls, and some of the boys. My daughter is very active in drama and music. They participate in a lot of activities, and have plenty of things going on that get emotional. You win this. You lose that. OMG! I can't believe HE didn't make it? When things like that go on, these kids, who have worked so hard, get emotional. They cry and they hug. Adults in that situation do the same thing. It's ridiculous to me that educators/administrators try to make it easier on themselves by "criminalizing" basic human emotional and physical displays. I'm not talking about reproduction. I'm talking about friends, or, for that matter, boyfriends and girlfriends. They have a basic, human, legal right to hug in an appropriate manner, at appropriate times, in school. Now, <strong>I</strong> need a hug! :) @Mary Kathryn: That’s my point exactly. It’s far too “knee-jerk” to pull the plug on all contact.

My oldest daughter is in public school. I carry the drama queen gene, apparently, so I’ve seen the girls, and some of the boys. My daughter is very active in drama and music. They participate in a lot of activities, and have plenty of things going on that get emotional. You win this. You lose that. OMG! I can’t believe HE didn’t make it? When things like that go on, these kids, who have worked so hard, get emotional. They cry and they hug. Adults in that situation do the same thing.

It’s ridiculous to me that educators/administrators try to make it easier on themselves by “criminalizing” basic human emotional and physical displays. I’m not talking about reproduction. I’m talking about friends, or, for that matter, boyfriends and girlfriends. They have a basic, human, legal right to hug in an appropriate manner, at appropriate times, in school.

Now, I need a hug! :)

]]> By: Mary Kathryn Victor http://www.jonathanramsey.com/omg-theyre-like-hugging-in-school.html#comment-21401 Mary Kathryn Victor Sat, 29 Dec 2007 23:09:51 +0000 http://www.jonathanramsey.com/omg-theyre-like-hugging-in-school.html#comment-21401 Sorry. You are all off base on this one. There should be another work for this type of "hugging." This type of hugging is called "feeling each other's genitals for the turn-on." It is referred to as public indecency and the comment is "PLEASE! Get a hotel room." I am a middle school teacher. I know what I am talking about. What a mess this is. Kids are "hugging" indecently and ALL hugs get a bad name. I love to see kids healthily and lovingly hug and console each other, but a few have messed that up for all. I would not report ANY kind of hugging... just smothering, sexual gyrations!! It's not too difficult to spot. Anyway, that's the story. If big government ( aka socialism) would quit trying to tell ALL schools what is best for its students, if they would just leave the governing at the local level, if suing would not be the norm of the day, the problem would solve itself on the local level. Every school is different. What is good for one is not good for all. Some schools may have to outlaw hugging or define "genital gyration" as out of bounds. Others do not because they do not have the problem. And that's the story! mk Sorry. You are all off base on this one. There should be another work for this type of “hugging.”

This type of hugging is called “feeling each other’s genitals for the turn-on.” It is referred to as public indecency and the comment is “PLEASE! Get a hotel room.”

I am a middle school teacher. I know what I am talking about.

What a mess this is. Kids are “hugging” indecently and ALL hugs get a bad name. I love to see kids healthily and lovingly hug and console each other, but a few have messed that up for all. I would not report ANY kind of hugging… just smothering, sexual gyrations!! It’s not too difficult to spot.

Anyway, that’s the story. If big government ( aka socialism) would quit trying to tell ALL schools what is best for its students, if they would just leave the governing at the local level, if suing would not be the norm of the day, the problem would solve itself on the local level.

Every school is different. What is good for one is not good for all. Some schools may have to outlaw hugging or define “genital gyration” as out of bounds. Others do not because they do not have the problem.

And that’s the story!

mk

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