School: No Hugs for You!

[Gan]

(CBS) OAK PARK, Ill. Schools just say no to bullying and fighting, but hugging? CBS 2 West Suburban Bureau Chief Mike Puccinelli reports that a local middle school wants the embracing to stop.

"Last year we would see maybe as many as 10 students on one side (of the hallway), 10 on the other and then, going in opposite directions, would sort of have a hug line going on and you could see where that would be a problem," said Victoria Sharts, principal of Oak Park's Percy Julian Middle School.

So this year Sharts decided to draw the line on hug lines by banning all hugging among students within the building.

Sharts said, "Hugging is really more appropriate for airports or for family reunions than passing and seeing each other every few minutes in the halls."

When teachers started enforcing the new policy last month all hallways and classrooms in the 860-student school became hug-free zones.

When our cameras rolling during passing period today there was no hugging to be seen.

Sixth grader Isabella Miller disagrees with the crackdown. "I don't think that that's right"

Her father agrees with her.

"It seems like a crazy idea to me," Mark Miller said.

The principal says the rampant hugging is creating bottle necks in the hallway and making kids late for class. Furthermore she says although hugs are supposed to be handshakes from the heart some times they don't seem so innocent.

"Too long, too close, and usually between boys and girls," Sharts said.

After school, while safely outside the building, the students seemed determined to show what they think of the policy, one hug at a time.

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[RichardCranium]

Shit's getting dumber and dumber since I left school. In my step-son's first hour they take a few minutes out of each morning to measure their bangs to see that they aren't too long and that their pants aren't double seamed. Serious business.

[Gan]

Double seamed?

As in creating space to hold contraband?

[RichardCranium]

I meant double stitched. My fault.

[Bobmuhthol]

<<In my step-son's first hour they take a few minutes out of each morning to measure their bangs to see that they aren't too long>>

lol, if a school tried to regulate my hair, I'd leave

[RichardCranium]

He's going to high school next year. I'm putting him in a private school.

Edited to that I too would have left if they'd been pulling this shit when I was still in school.

[Methais]

The principal says the rampant hugging is creating bottle necks in the hallway and making kids late for class.

Because penalizing people for being late to class just isn't an option or anything.

Let's ban cars from highways because they create bottlenecks during rush hour and make people late for work.

[Daniel]

Lol. Someone is a real bitch, bitter about life.

[Snapp]

That's stupid. I'm sure there's another way to handle "traffic jams" in the hallway.

[Celephais]

That's stupid. I'm sure there's another way to handle "traffic jams" in the hallway.
When I was a freshman in high school my older cousin was a senior, one of his friends was in a class, and he'd ask me where my next class was, pick me up by my backpack* and say "clear the way" to me... then he'd start charging down the hall to wherever I needed to go, bowling anyone out of the way. It was awesome, I have no idea how he didn't get in trouble for doing that.

*I was all of 110lbs, this kid was massive.

[Daniel]

There's alot of shit I did in High school that i'm not sure how I didn't get in trouble for...

[Whimsi]

I think the whole hugging craze among teens was created by teen boys wanting to get close to teen booby.

I'm just saying!

[Gan]

There's alot of shit I did in High school that i'm not sure how I didn't get in trouble for...

LOL

There was a lot of shit I did in High School that I did get into trouble for. Thank God they always turned me over to my coaches for 'punishment'. :)

[ElanthianSiren]

Still not getting past Sharts as a middle school admin name; that has to SUCK. Hard.

[chillmonster]

I got kicked out of eighth grade for grabbing a girls ass. Principal came around the corner 2 seconds later and next thing I knew I was going to another school. The fucked up part is we were just flirtiing. Luckly, I was way out of district so I just reinrolled in the correct school and continued my shenanegans.

Glad I wasn't going there. I'd probably still be in jail now.

[TheEschaton]

WTF, how're we supposed to solve problems like war if hugging is banninated?

-TheE-

[Skeeter]

I got kicked out of eighth grade for grabbing a girls ass. Principal came around the corner 2 seconds later and next thing I knew I was going to another school. The fucked up part is we were just flirtiing. Luckly, I was way out of district so I just reinrolled in the correct school and continued my shenanegans.

Glad I wasn't going there. I'd probably still be in jail now.



You call it flirting, the state calls it gross sexual imposition.

[Drew2]

Since when is grabbing a girls ass "flirting" and not "being a creep"?

Oh, since never.

[Mighty Nikkisaurus]

I got kicked out of eighth grade for grabbing a girls ass. Principal came around the corner 2 seconds later and next thing I knew I was going to another school. The fucked up part is we were just flirtiing. Luckly, I was way out of district so I just reinrolled in the correct school and continued my shenanegans.

Glad I wasn't going there. I'd probably still be in jail now.

Heh, when I was in Middle School the halls were jam packed with students and for a long time I had to deal with guys "running into me" when they were actually just copping a feel of my chest. I was like 115 pounds with double D's, so obviously they drew guys attention.

After filing numerous sexual harassment reports and complaints, nothing really happened- the Principal even just told me to "ignore it or tell them to stop" (like that worked).

Finally a guy did it and I grabbed his balls and squeezed them, hard. The guy let out a high-pitched shriek and I was just like "HEY, you get to feel so why can't I?!"

Guess who was called into the Principal's office and suspended? Not the assholes who groped me against my will in the hallway, that's for sure.

I can say however that no one EVER groped me like that again.

[Clove]

...I can say however that no one EVER groped me like that again.

Nice to see a someone take matters into her own hands!

[Drew2]

You should have used your foot.

[TheSmooth1]

In high heels.

[chillmonster]

Whoa, whoa, whoa! Calm the hell down. The same girl had grabbed my ass plenty of times. The principal gave her a long speech about guys respecting herself and staying away from horny boys. I was pissed that she got talked to and I got kicked out of school. Point is some of us acually had fun school.

Then again, we were kind of fast at that school. There was one speech class I had with that girl and a friend of hers where it went way too far. The teacher would sit in the front row when we gave our speeches, and every time any one of about five us guys in the went up they'd be in the back opening their shirts, pulling out their breasts, fondling their nipples, etc....

We were fucking horrible. Maybe we shouldn't let kids hug.

[TheSmooth1]

So where'd you go to school again?

Also, double standards ftl.

[chillmonster]

Heh, when I was in Middle School the halls were jam packed with students and for a long time I had to deal with guys "running into me" when they were actually just copping a feel of my chest. I was like 115 pounds with double D's, so obviously they drew guys attention.

After filing numerous sexual harassment reports and complaints, nothing really happened- the Principal even just told me to "ignore it or tell them to stop" (like that worked).

Finally a guy did it and I grabbed his balls and squeezed them, hard. The guy let out a high-pitched shriek and I was just like "HEY, you get to feel so why can't I?!"

Guess who was called into the Principal's office and suspended? Not the assholes who groped me against my will in the hallway, that's for sure.

I can say however that no one EVER groped me like that again.

My situation was COMPLETELY different.

And you handled that right. Middle school boys are stupid.

[chillmonster]

So where'd you go to school again?

Also, double standards ftl.

Atlanta, Ga. I think that's what you'd find in a lot of schools around here. Cyty, suburbs, wherever - kids are highly sexualized.

[Mighty Nikkisaurus]

Nice to see a someone take matters into her own hands!

My dad took me out for a dinner that night. I don't think I've ever seen him so proud :tumble:

And Chillmonster, just so you don't get the wrong idea, I wasn't insinuating that you playing grabass with a willing girl was the same as some jerk offs grabbing my tits in the hallways.. I just wanted to point out that schools can be fucking retarded at handling REAL problems >.<

[Methais]

In high heels.

With a Swiss Army Shoe.