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Australian High School 'Bans' Hugging - What the fuck is wrong with the world?
    #14087153 - 03/08/11 02:54 PM (12 years, 10 months ago)

Just because the ugly kids can't get laid is no reason to pollute life with these anti-affection, anti-love policies that go far beyond making out, which nobody should care about anyway. Discussion?

http://www.aolnews.com/2011/03/08/australian-high-school-bans-hugging-smiling-could-be-next/?test=latestnews

An Australian high school has banned students from hugging and warned that those caught in the act will be sent to detention, according to parents.

But the claims have sparked a row with the local Department of Education, which denied the reports, further angering parents and students.

Some parents say teachers at Figtree High School, near the city of Wollongong, south of Sydney, announced during a recent school assembly that hugging on school premises was banned.

"[A senior staff member] stood up at assembly and basically announced hugging was now banned and students would be given detention," one mother told the Illawarra Mercury newspaper.

"If they can ban hugging, what are they going to do next -- ban smiling?"

Outraged parents told the newspaper they believed hugging had been banned as a way to stop affectionate behavior between students during school time.

"They were told there's no touching, no hugging from now on," an unidentified parent said.

Figtree High School's website makes no mention of the ban but says it aims "to provide a safe and caring environment where students, regardless of diversity, disadvantage or disability, reach their highest potential through positive and enriching learning experiences."

Inquiries about the controversy were referred to the New South Wales Department of Education and Training, whose spokesperson said: "[A senior staff member] at the assembly talked about inappropriate touching of others -- such as horseplay, pretend fighting, flicking and bumping -- and gave a number of examples, including one about students hugging in the hallways and therefore blocking the path of other students returning to classes."

But students dismissed the department statement.

"I'm a student in Year 10 at Figtree High School and I would just like to say that during the assembly it was clearly stated and I quote 'if you touch, kiss or hug anyone, you will be sent to the deputy's office and sent home'," read one comment on the Mercury's website (that also perhaps highlighted poor grammar).

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"The kids should pretend that they are wrestling and get in the odd hug too," read another comment post.

Wrote another: "How can the students be expected to respect the rules and guidelines made by the teachers if the parents of these kids are the first ones to oppose?"

Schools in the U.S. have imposed hugging bans for several years.

In 2007, The Associated Press reported a 13-year-old Illinois girl had been punished with detention for hugging two friends, violating her school's ban on "public displays of affection."


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Re: Australian High School 'Bans' Hugging - What the fuck is wrong with the world? [Re: 5-HT2A]
    #14087297 - 03/08/11 03:24 PM (12 years, 10 months ago)

:haha::monkeydance:


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Re: Australian High School 'Bans' Hugging - What the fuck is wrong with the world? [Re: 5-HT2A]
    #14087496 - 03/08/11 04:01 PM (12 years, 10 months ago)

Quote:

What the fuck is wrong with the world?




In three lines or less?


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Re: Australian High School 'Bans' Hugging - What the fuck is wrong with the world? [Re: OrgoneConclusion]
    #14088077 - 03/08/11 06:03 PM (12 years, 10 months ago)

Oh gawd.


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Re: Australian High School 'Bans' Hugging - What the fuck is wrong with the world? [Re: circastes]
    #14088145 - 03/08/11 06:18 PM (12 years, 10 months ago)

Quote:

'if you touch, kiss or hug anyone, you will be sent to the deputy's office and sent home',




touch? :facepalm:


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Re: Australian High School 'Bans' Hugging - What the fuck is wrong with the world? [Re: 5-HT2A]
    #14089058 - 03/08/11 08:53 PM (12 years, 10 months ago)

:stanhopefacepalm:


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Re: Australian High School 'Bans' Hugging - What the fuck is wrong with the world? [Re: 5-HT2A]
    #14090741 - 03/09/11 02:46 AM (12 years, 10 months ago)

:picard:


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Re: Australian High School 'Bans' Hugging - What the fuck is wrong with the world? [Re: Poid]
    #14090766 - 03/09/11 03:11 AM (12 years, 10 months ago)

Save the Children!


Can we stop treating our educational institutions like prisons, please?  What the hell does it have to do with education if kids are hugging or whatever between class?  Maybe if they'd hire some teachers who knew which way was up, and got some administration that was more concerned with running a proper course schedule with qualified instructors, their might be kids learning something rather than locked up per law between the hours set by the school.  Seems we're running a daily prison camp rather than a friggin school


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Re: Australian High School 'Bans' Hugging - What the fuck is wrong with the world? [Re: johnm214]
    #14090785 - 03/09/11 03:29 AM (12 years, 10 months ago)

The administration in the middle school I went to was all-female, they were complete bitches and were extremely strict about stupid little things like minor dress-code violations and rough-housing (even if it occurred outside of the halls); they were referred to by some as the "Feminazis".

:hitler:


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It's one thing to simply enjoy a style of life that one enjoys, but it's another thing altogether to refer to another person's choice as "wrong" or to rationalize their behavior as being pathological or resulting from some sort of inadequacy or failing so as to create a sense of superiority or separation as yet another projection of a personal fear or control issue.


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Re: Australian High School 'Bans' Hugging - What the fuck is wrong with the world? [Re: Poid]
    #14091008 - 03/09/11 05:55 AM (12 years, 10 months ago)

Hey, I went to an all boys grammar school with an all girls school right next to it (behind a picket line that no one was allowed to cross without special permission). And they think they've got it bad? :crankey: :facepalm:


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Re: Australian High School 'Bans' Hugging - What the fuck is wrong with the world? [Re: Grapefruit]
    #14092748 - 03/09/11 02:02 PM (12 years, 10 months ago)

:lolocaust:

i foresee much frustration and awkwardness in the future


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Re: Australian High School 'Bans' Hugging - What the fuck is wrong with the world? [Re: Penelope_Tree]
    #14093112 - 03/09/11 03:20 PM (12 years, 10 months ago)

The local newspaper is a little more informative:

http://www.illawarramercury.com.au/news/local/news/general/figtree-high-school-bans-hugging-parents-claim/2089352.aspx?src=rss

Can I just say that this feels like a sham? Not a single administrator or student was interviewed. Biased, pre-written articles masquerading as "journalism," amirite?

There's no fucking way I'm taking the word of one "concerned" mother that all of this took place exactly as she said it did. That would be hearsay, and that would be stupid...

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Re: Australian High School 'Bans' Hugging - What the fuck is wrong with the world? [Re: nanomagnetic]
    #14100200 - 03/10/11 07:55 PM (12 years, 10 months ago)

The teachers in my high school used to do the same shit. My girlfriend and I would even purposefully make out in the hallway, just to be sent home, so that I could pound her twat at my house for hours before parents were home.


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