Hugs are Banned from Junior High School

i see why they would do this. you cant slow dance closey to each other. i am suprised they are still letting them give high fivesss but hugss ://

i see why they would do this. you cant slow dance closey to each other. i am suprised they are still letting them give high fivesss but hugss ://

They tried that at my school it lasted about 2 weks because everyone went out of thier way to hug eachother... Its a little different at my school because its an arts school and kids are very open. But I agree its reciclous!

I can see the point of view from the principal and the teachers. They see any intimate contact between the two people as potentially dangerous. Hugs is just a gateway to other things. They probably think if they stop the intimate contact other things won't happen. What they should be doing is informing the students on why hugs can be wrong instead of banning them

It was the same at my Jr. High and one day I was having a horrible day and was crying. I got in trouble for being hugged and my friends got in trouble for hugging me. That made it even worse! A hug could keep someone from committing suicide or in my case running away. I did runway that day after school.lol If only I could have gotten a hug. XD
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I love hugs. I'm a very huggy person. I hug my friends, I hug people I just met goodbye sometimes if we've hung out for a long time, I hug people I don't really like. I don't see anything wrong with hugs. There is a difference between a "friends hug" and a "sexual hug" though and I think that could be a point of confusion.

First they take away dodgeball for being "too violent" now they're taking away hugs for being "to caring". What the heck?

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this is ridiculous i've never heard of such rules in my junior high school. Hugging is a good and healthy thing! Preventing them to hug each other would only make the junior high students just more hostile against the rules.

This is completely ironic and vapid. Middle school should be a location where children can continue to form bonds that originated in elementary school. With such a negative attitude toward amiable actions, they may adopt the idea that "friendliness" is a malicious.
As children age, their comprehension of their emotions and thoughts grows. Why would a school stifle their emotional advancement? Education is also about creating a community and bonds among young people. The lack of that hugs, a form of a shallow intimacy, has the potential to keep friendships below their true aptitude.
Hugs have also been proven to help people feel good about their selves. Don't you feel great, refreshed, and brightened after being hugged by someone? They always cheer me up. I fear that the depriving of such emotional power bars will leave our school with robots rather than the ecstatic futures of the world.
Bottom-line: hugz rulz.

One of the most therapeutic parts of getting a massage is the physical contact that we all need and crave. You look at infants and they are continuously being held and toddlers are rough & tumble and also in constant contact with parents & other children. Up into the teens most still have a lot of physical contact with each other. Playing sports is another way a lot of contact is maintained, until we become adults - and then we are looking a the empty 2 seats on the bus to avoid sitting next to someone and we work hard to maintain our personal space. This creates seperstion & loneliness from each other & makes the porn industry a lot of $$. I have participated in groups hugs involving close to 5000 people and I also work many festivals during the year and everyone is smiling & hugging for the entire 3-4 days we are sharing space with each other. I had to clear a parade route through a packed auditorium in the middle of a New Years Eve concert (as we were pulling large balloons as part of the parade) and I led the way through the crowd to have them create a path for the balloon to follow. Everyone was smiling and I hugged EVERY single person on that path that night as the balloons are a little slow to maneuver. I must have hugged about 1000 people in a span of 30 minutes and the energy & love we all shared was one of the most precious & powerful moments of my life.
So - should we deny a hug from someone who may really need one. If we deny the hug and the child uses a gun instead, is this OK with the school ?
I can understand if a boy has his hands down a girls pants or if some bullies are getting physical with another student, but if a child is having a rough day or hopeful to get the lead in the school play or stressing out over a test, I believe I would sue the school for not allowing my child to hug or be hugged to help them get through the day.
I think about past school shootings and the one thing that seems to always apply is the fact that the child was a loner and was separated from his classmates. I wonder how many less shootings would have happened if that lonely child would have gotten a hug at a critical time in their life. We all know that love is the answer but we still have too many rules that inhibit love from society. We deserve what we have today in society because we are idiots - or too apathetic to make a stand for what is right and how we want our world to be. Blatant sexuality & fighting rules are understandable but I would encourage every child to hug as many of their classmates as possible. It may just save their life.... Love & Hugs, Carlton