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Punishment for hugs??
« on: November 08, 2007, 06:59:24 PM »
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MASCOUTAH, Ill. - Two hugs equals two days of detention for 13-year-old Megan Coulter.

The eighth-grader was punished for violating a school policy banning public displays of affection when she hugged two friends Friday.

“I feel it is crazy,” said Megan, who was to serve her second detention Tuesday after classes at Mascoutah Middle School.

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“I was just giving them a hug goodbye for the weekend,” she said.

Megan’s mother, Melissa Coulter, said the embraces weren’t even real hugs — just an arm around the shoulder and slight squeeze.

“It’s hilarious to the point of ridicule,” Coulter said. “I’m still dumbfounded that she’s having to do this.”


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said that he thinks the penalty is fair and that administrators in the school east of St. Louis were following policy in the student handbook.

It states: “Displays of affection should not occur on the school campus at any time. It is in poor taste, reflects poor judgment, and brings discredit to the school and to the persons involved.”

Parents urge change in policy
Coulter said she and her husband told their daughter to go ahead and serve her detentions
because the only other option was a day of suspension for each skipped detention.

“We don’t agree with it, but I certainly don’t want her to get in more trouble,” Coulter said.

The couple plan to attend the next school board meeting to ask board members to consider rewording the policy or be more specific in what is considered a display of affection.

“I’m just hoping the school board will open their eyes and just realize that maybe they shouldn’t be punishing us for hugs,” Megan said.


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On three occasions, 13-year-old Megan Coulter threw her arm around the shoulder of a classmate. Just once, 12-year-old Madison Muir hugged a friend who had recently lost a parent.

For those acts, both girls were given detention by their middle schools for violating bans against public displays of affection.

“I think it has gone too far,” Lia Muir, Madison’s mother, told TODAY co-host Meredith Vieira on Thursday during an interview via satellite from Montgomery, Ala.

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“I honestly think I shouldn’t be punished,” said Megan, speaking with her mother, Melissa Coulter, from their home in Muscoutah, Ill. “The hugs were nothing inappropriate. There weren’t bodies pressed up against one another. It was simply a one-armed hug across the shoulders — nothing bad.”

To a growing number of school districts, it doesn’t matter. Leery of being sued under laws that make schools liable for not stopping sexual harassment between students, they’ve declared their campuses to be no-hug zones; some schools have even banned holding hands.

Megan and Madison, one from a blue state, the other from a red, are the latest students to become what they and their parents think are victims of policies that fail to allow students to engage in one of the most basic of human gestures.

“It’s part of my daily routine,” Megan explained. “I always hug my friends.”

For Madison, it seemed like the most natural way to comfort a friend who had returned to school after the loss of a parent.

“We were just talking,” she told Vieira. “I gave him a quick hug because he had to leave, and we went our separate ways. But the vice principal saw us and called us into her office and gave us detention.”


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Unable to attend the preschool detention because of transportation issues, Madison, a seventh grader in Prattville, Ala., ended up missing two days of school.

“The South is known for its warm and caring people,” Lia Muir said. “It’s a natural reaction to show somebody you care. I don’t think there should be a liability issue here. It’s a natural reaction to show not even affection, just a caring move.”

Muir said she’s a hugger herself. “I hug my children all the time,” she said. “My children hug other people, and I hug my friends. My children wouldn’t believe there was something wrong with that. In no way shape or form could it be construed as inappropriate touching.”

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Officials at districts that have banned hugging in all forms say they don’t want to have to make judgment calls about what’s a friendly little hug and what’s an inappropriate one. In districts that haven’t banned hugs entirely, administrators often say they want the leeway to treat the actions of students on a case-by-case basis.

Title IX, the federal statute that bans sex discrimination in schools, also protects students from sexual harassment. Hugging didn’t become an issue until 1999, when the Supreme Court ruled that a school district could be liable for damages in a case of sexual harassment by a peer that the district ignored.

“I do think they have a point,” Melissa Coulter said. “I could see where there could be a liability issue.” But, she added, “I do think there is a difference between standing beside someone and putting your arm across their shoulders and giving a quick squeeze and having full frontal contact.”

“We need to set some standards,” Muir agreed. “But this is a little extreme.”

So a girl gives a friend a comforting hug over the death of friend's parent and gets detention. Wow.

*looks forward to NEO's comments on this...*
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Punishment for hugs??
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Re: Punishment for hugs??
« Reply #1 on: November 08, 2007, 10:17:38 PM »
Displays of affection not allowed? Are they trying to breed robots?
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Re: Punishment for hugs??
« Reply #2 on: November 08, 2007, 10:27:57 PM »
Brings to mind that movie with Christian Bale...Equilibrium.

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Re: Punishment for hugs??
« Reply #3 on: November 08, 2007, 11:04:02 PM »
lol reminds me of school......if they call my parents in for me huggin a chick my mum so gonna cusschop d principal
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Re: Punishment for hugs??
« Reply #4 on: November 08, 2007, 11:09:06 PM »
Brings to mind that movie with Christian Bale...Equilibrium.

brace!! i was thinking Equilibrium right thru readin dat sh!t, lol
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