No hugging allowed for preteens at Australian school

Tuesday 20th October, 02:37 PM JST

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Nessie at 09:03 PM JST - 20th October

Are trees on school property included in this ban

Tree-hugging koala's are exempt.
SuperLib at 09:40 PM JST - 20th October

heh I can imagine what detention will be like.

A: What are you in for?

B: I punched a guy in the face. Why, what are you in for?

A: I hugged my girlfriend.
Sarge at 09:46 PM JST - 20th October

There are millions of kids who could not tolerate that school.
TheQuestion at 10:21 PM JST - 20th October

If that had been instituted in my day I'd have been expelled inside a week. What can I say, I'm a loveable guy.
Sarge at 10:32 PM JST - 20th October

If that had been instituted when I was in the 4th grade, I'd have been expelled. ( I had a girlfriend in the 4th grade )
Triumvere at 10:57 PM JST - 20th October

Another insult to our collective intelligence. File this with the idiocy folder with all those cowardly "no-tolerance" policies. Count down do the next embarassing incident involving a cute little first grader being expelled because she hugged a friend: T minus 15 seconds, 14, 13...
LoveUSA at 11:07 PM JST - 20th October

The hugging ban mirrors restrictions by some U.S. schools that have also outlawed hugs, kisses and physical horseplay in an attempt to prevent groping or injury and maintain the seriousness of the environment.

this is a good policy though Sarge should be exempt, he is still a little kid playing with toys.

If that had been instituted when I was in the 4th grade, I'd have been expelled. ( I had a girlfriend in the 4th grade )

this is hard to believe. Most probably in 4th grade you were still playing with your toys. You still play with trains, don't you?
usaexpat at 11:08 PM JST - 20th October

So what is it that you're trying to achieve? Is it that you don't want students who don't have a boyfriend or girlfriend to feel bad or are you trying to deny that people couple at even that young age? I don't buy the "good example for younger students" line at all. Maybe normal human behavior makes the administrators nervous. Once again big brother lives.
usaexpat at 11:31 PM JST - 20th October

LoveUSA: I don't know about you but our school had seasonal dances starting at 6th grade which would have been 11 years old. I doubt Sarge is exagerating myself, I was in 4th grade when I started to discover girls, didn't know quite what to make of them but knew I wanted to be around them.
dolphingirl at 12:03 AM JST - 21st October

This hug ban is totally ridiculous! Besides, who's to say those two 12 year-old girls hugging are not lesbians. I can understand teaching kids appropriate and inappropriate touching but this is a bit much. Hugs are good!!
gonemad at 01:38 AM JST - 21st October

so Australia is still infested with this backward puritan pseudo-morality - or again?
memyselfI at 05:29 AM JST - 21st October

hugging ok reported groping is bad groping fondling bad

outlaw groping nd fondling

can you really hug boobs ?
HonestDictator at 06:24 AM JST - 21st October

Hrmm, my momma used to hug me, and so did my closest bestest friends, even some of the teachers would put their arms around us little kiddies shoulders when we were crying our eyes out (of course thats up for debate nowadays). Banning hugs is like banning love! lol this is funny though. I didn't really get my first crush until 5th grade either, but I remember a girl kissing me when I was 6yrs old. Don't let your kids watch soap operas when your not home!
Hehehohohaha at 07:17 AM JST - 21st October

Is this because the school authorities are too uptight to say "No groping" so they go for the linguistically more comfortable "No Hugging" instead? The most likely effect of this ban is to drive students to seek more secluded spots at school to hug. But I guess out of sight, out of mind is what they want to achieve.
nightflesh at 02:03 PM JST - 22nd October

Its a school, these kids are not your own. You are there to teach and strictly that. leave them kids alone.