Two Florida school children suspended after they were caught... doing drugs? No. Having sex? No. Vandalizing property? Again, no.
Hugging. Yes. Hugging. According to Reason.com the principle "admits it was an 'innocent' hug, but the school has zero tolerance for hugging."
Wait. "Zero tolerance for hugging"? What?
I'm generally an enthusiastic supporter and believer that the times we are living in now are better than any time in the past; and that my kids' future world will be an infinitely better place than today.
Sometimes though, I have to wonder. To the extent that things like this make our world worse, we have no one to blame but ourselves.
And be careful, next time your teen kid smiles at someone, they could end up married, pregnant and full of STDs.
There is a university (uber conservative Christian college) where you can get in trouble for making eye contact of the inappropriate sort too long. It's called (by the students) making eye-babies.
ReplyDeleteObviously it's slightly different because you choose to go to this college and these kids didn't have a choice at their school, but yeah. People are a little kooky.
Two things:
ReplyDelete1 - one reason why public schooling should be done away with. Letting you choose would make these types of things A) less likely and B) less crazy of an imposition.
Second: Not that I don't believe you, but I always have a hard time believing stuff like this till I see it. Not that I don't think it could be happening, just that I can't believe it is.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pensacola_Christian_College
ReplyDeleteThis doesn't say about people getting in trouble, and I can't find anything accredited in a brief search (I read it first in an autobiography and have seen some mentions of it online, but I'm not sure if they are sarcastic or sarcastic because they're true).
Still, eye babies.