Hugging banned at a US school.

[boppers]

http://beaverton.katu.com/content/no-hugging-school

Video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PTwKwg4_Xjk

It's bizarre.

[ScreamingMeemie]

1. Hugging is banned at my son's school, and all of the schools in

our district. Which I think is pure bullshit.

[boppers]

2. WTF? Is this a trend I didn't know about?

I'm a big believer in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_Hugs_Campaign

(Vid here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vr3x_RRJdd4 )

Were they worried that people were becoming too nice in schools?

[sakabatou]

4. I had the same idea: WTF?!

[Political Heretic]

9. Civil Disobedience time.

Our State is getting out of control...

[Quantess]

3. Kids seem to need hugs more than adults.

I don't it's emotionally healthy to ban hugging.

[boppers]

7. I get 3-8 hugs a day, now.

In school I got 15-20, and I hardly ever got them at home, so for me, it was part and parcel of maintaining my support network.

[REP]

5. Good. One less way to get groped in the name of "don't be so uptight"

Hugging became the thing when I was in highschool, only it was more about copping a feel than whatever the reason was given for invading personal space.

[boppers]

6. Whaaaat? You're talking about two different things, no?

Hugging is not groping, or copping a feel.

[Odin2005]

11. I'm 23 and my age group has always been very touchy-feely.

I love hugs!

[boppers]

8. Self-kick eom

[Odin2005]

10. That is SOOOO stupid.

[lunatica]

12. Keep Michelle Obama away then, because she's the Hugger in Chief

And for crying out loud push those kindergartners away from you. They're into hugging way too much.

Fuck! What idiocy.

[Douglas Carpenter]

13. now that's weird