Do not hug, primary school sweethearts told

[Gumleaf]

06:00 AEST Tue Oct 20 2009
By ninemsn staff
http://news.ninemsn.com.au/national/877717/do-not-hug-primary-school-sweethearts-told


A South Australian primary school has banned Year 6 and Year 7 students who are "boyfriends or girlfriends" from hugging.

Largs Bay Primary School has outlawed the displays of affection over fears it may set a bad example to other students, Adelaide's The Advertiser reports.

Has the school gone too far? Should hugging be banned? Share your thoughts with us.

"Hugging is not banned (between friends) ... but we do discourage displays of affection in the schoolyard among students in Years 6 and 7 who have a boyfriend or girlfriend at the school," principal Julie Gail told the newspaper.

"We want our older students to set a strong example for younger students at the school."

But some parents are outraged by the move, saying the so-called hugging ban applies to all “mixed sex displays of affection”.

Parents said the 11 and 12 year-old students were told of the ban after a recent hugging “outbreak” when friends saw one another for the first time after school holidays.

"I don't want my child to go to a school in which displays of affection lead to punishment," a mother told The Advertiser.

"My daughter has boys who are friends and she is being told she will be punished if she hugs them, I think that is setting a very bad example for younger and older children."

The state's education department would not tell the newspaper if the ban was in place at any other schools and refused to endorse the measure.

[Ladybird94]

How pathetic :|

[nick]

Its a sign of the times. These things have gone way to far. In parts of the US I believe (happy to be shot down in flames here) a little kid can get put on some sort of deviants register for hugging another little kid. Like 5 or 6 year olds. Its all crazy.

[Cloud]

THAT SCHOOLS HETEROPHOBIC
XD

but seriously
that is jsut stupid
people have some whacky ideas

[IowaBoy]

i think that the rule should be enforced, little kids are starting to grow up way to fast, this is due to the media...

[Sage]

i think that the rule should be enforced, little kids are starting to grow up way to fast, this is due to the media...

If this isn't sarcastic, it damn well should be. My two cents?

GREAT GODS ABOVE FORBID THAT PEOPLE ACTUALLY SHOW THEY LIKE ONE ANOTHER.

[IowaBoy]

If this isn't sarcastic, it damn well should be. My two cents?

GREAT GODS ABOVE FORBID THAT PEOPLE ACTUALLY SHOW THEY LIKE ONE ANOTHER.

nope, kids should get a little dosage of it but not a ton of it.

[Sage]

nope, kids should get a little dosage of it but not a ton of it.

Why the fuck not? It's a hug. There's nothing sexual to it.

[IowaBoy]

not talking about the sexual part of it, its the fantasy part of it. after a while things get get out of hand.

[Sage]

not talking about the sexual part of it, its the fantasy part of it. after a while things get get out of hand.

And what's wrong with fantasies? You want to enforce thought-crimes now? Kids'll hug whether you want them to or not, and banning the act only sends them the message that there's something wrong with it, which there is not.

[IowaBoy]

nothing is wrong with having fantasies its just when it cuts into other things such as school and normal life.

[Sage]

nothing is wrong with having fantasies its just when it cuts into other things such as school and normal life.

Unless you're completely unlikeable, hugging is part of school and normal life. I'm not even all that popular and I still get the occasional hug.

[Bougainvillea]

I have to side with Lucifer on this one.

I hate these things. I can't really hug Cathy at school. It's pretty annoying.

[DarkWingedAngel]

basically they are telling little kids that they should not hug anyone because it is bad.



well I guess they should ban parents from hugging around there kids now.
OMG like c'mon they are little kids.

[Perseus]

And what's wrong with fantasies? You want to enforce thought-crimes now? Kids'll hug whether you want them to or not, and banning the act only sends them the message that there's something wrong with it, which there is not.

Lol.. thought-crimes.. I'm sorry Tim, but that was pretty epic what you just said there..
But anyway, I don't see why hugging is such a big, bad thing now-adays. I mean, next they'll ban hand-shaking because you're touching one-another..

IowaBoy, what is so wrong with hugging? I used to hug people every-so-often, and there was nothing sexual about, I had no fantasies and the lot. And what if someone is feelin' sad and they want a hug, is that bad, too?

[Modus Operandi]

This is absurd. They're far too young to know or care that hugging has possible sexual associations.

[Sage]

It just bothers me that this sort of thing is what defines our culture here in North America. If there's anything I adore about Europe, it's that they're so much more open about sexuality and touching and things like that over there.

[Modus Operandi]

It just bothers me that this sort of thing is what defines our culture here in North America. If there's anything I adore about Europe, it's that they're so much more open about sexuality and touching and things like that over there.

Yeah.

America needs to lighten up a bit.

[mrmcdonaldduck]

Yeah.

America needs to lighten up a bit.

it was an australian school, but i get your point.

this is going to far, what next? a ban of shaking hands?

the doo gooders need to get a grip.

[2D]

Are you kidding. This is finally breaking out or something? My Nazi/fascist/Christian/tyrannical school would ban us from everything. I couldn't give a "side-hug" to one of my friends. It was atrocious. There was no physical contact allowed whatsoever. Because it's ungodly to touch someone or some BS like that.

[Darkness]

If it was my school I would have sex in one of the cubicles in protest then proclaim it to the self righteous little bitches.

[Becky]

Ok what the hell I've never even thought of a hug as a sexual act or anything sexual at all yeah I hug my boyfriends but thats for support and comfort not cause I want something to buck my god The world is going MAD

[lengthy_brochure]

My School (6-8) bans public displays of affection

[AllThatIsLeft]

IT SHOULD BE BANNED! They will get AIDS.

[Sage]

IT SHOULD BE BANNED! They will get AIDS.

http://shannon-oneill.net/images/oh%20noes%208.jpg

[Whisper]

Seriously i find that disgusting
shit like this really bothers me
and you wonder why kids are so depressed and fucked up
you wont even let them hug someone they care about
showing affection is human nature plain and simple
there's enough unnecessary shame attached to puberty from society
I don't think it needs to be added too

parents piss me off
when i have kids
i wont stand for their school doing shit like that

[-Silence]

Dude I got saturday school for hugging a guy.
So, it suprises me it took this look for Australia.

[Quick_Sylver]

When I went to "regular" school (I home-school) I went to a catholic school and they didn't have a problem with hugging so? I really don't get the big deal about hugging. I mean, what could happen from hugging? well I know that, but this just my piece added in.

[The Batman]

There were two lesbians making out in the hallway everyday at my old highschool and all they said was stop.

[Whisper]

I was homeschooled so I honestly have no idea what our policy is
I know a student committed suicide cause he was having sex with his English teacher her husband found out and confronted him and his parents at his house. That happened at our public high school I used to take my exams at and crap...Vanier was a shithole
In a town of like 400...ya


Anyway when it comes to friends I tend to be touchy feely, and I have issues understanding the concept of personal space
So I wouldn't do well in an environment like that
so ya its retarded

[Suicune]

How can you find mild displays of affection wrong!?

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[steph4ryan]

thats a bit pathetic. over here in england they couldn't give a toss if we hold hands, or for that matter, get off with each other. they're just happy that there's no babies poppin out and we're not at each other's throats. we just tell them where to go if they tell us to cut down on the amount of teenage pregnancies that ar egoing on.(not that i'd know about that anyway coz i've never had one) but, still, we don't ban them from hugging or kissing their lovers, so why do they ban us? We don't make a big deal out of two teachers from the same school doing things they shouldn't in the janitor's office so why should they? well, we do make a big deal actually, but still, that's not the point.

[BuryYourFlame]

ha, reminds me of me and my ex girlfriend. almost whenever we would hug at school, we would get in trouble, but there are other couples in the 'popular' group who get away with full feeling up (his hand on her boob yadda yadda yadda), it was ridiculous -_-
i even gotten in trouble once for hugging a friend becuse her mother was abusing her -_-

[clone]

hugging bans are stupid hugging is banned at my school but we pretty much say fuck off! and do it anyway because we dont take that shit but 6th graders shouldnt be doing that come on give people some rights!

[unknown2011]

i dont think 6th-7th graders should even date yet. i know i was too young even thoough i did.

[Sage]

i dont think 6th-7th graders should even date yet. i know i was too young even thoough i did.

Why?

[clone]

well i think hugs can keep people from trying to kill themselfs personaly and they make me feel good

why shouldnt they be dating?

[unknown2011]

they're too young to date. they hardly know anything at that age still.

but thats just my opinion.

[Eagle1]

wow just wow

[Sage]

they're too young to date. they hardly know anything at that age still.

Why? For the vast majority of human history, kids have been getting married and starting families at that age.

[Kahn]

Left 4 Dead 2 Is making fun of Australia because it banned it. Australia had many absurd rules. Such as, banning video games for killing zombies, Santa Clauses can't say ho ho ho anymore (Yes its true. I have a friend from Aussie that made a big fuss about this), an now this. What is wrong with Australia? They have gone too far.