Terrific! Less hugging and more studying. What’s with the hugging anyway? It’s not like they haven’s seen each other in years. We all know what the hugging is about. Get real!!

Hold on! Apparently many of the prior posters have never heard of ‘friends with benefits’. This has been going on for over a decade. And at the middle school, and drifting downward. Sexting today is common among 12 year-olds. Anyone standing outside many schools today does see quite a bit of groping, extreme hugging, humping, etc. that goes far beyond an exuberant, consoling or even greeting type of hugging. Not sure what’s happening at this school. But let’s give the principal a little slack before we jump down his/her throat.

I’m so glad I went through these years back in the 1960′s. The Schools and their recent “zero-toerance” policies are about as asinine as it gets. Disgusting, simply disgusting.

Finally. Have any of you ever actually GONE to a school today and watched all of the hugging and groping going on. Enough is enough. Finish up with the hugging and crap and get thier noses back in the friggen books.

I am appalled, not only at this, but also that the Sun (UK) reports that BFF’s are forbidden in their schools. This is to promote mental tranquility and avoid disappointment when the inevitable spat occurs.

You can’t make this stuff up, but Liberals are always there to do it for you.

Every kid in that school should go and hug two friends a day for the next week. Let’s see the administration put them all on detention and explain it to all the parents.
What a bunch of a–hats.

I agree this is crazy but are you aware that there are NJ middle schools that don’t allow touching at all?! Not even if a friend is hurt or crying are they allowed to so much as put a hand on their shoulder for comfort. I know this for a fact because a friend’s son was standing behind two other friends as they worked on a homework problem. He was leaning over looking at what one of them was writing and put his hand on one boy’s shoulder as he was leaning and was called out by a teacher and sent for detention. We are teaching our kids the wrong things by allowing school administrators to establish rules that do nothing but make their lives easier at the expense of our children’s social education.

Comrades! Comrades! Please! Mother Government knows what is best for her children. When you, as parents, send her children to the Government Indoctrination Camps, you must understand that Dear Mother will raise them well for you. We cannot expect that you will have the time to instill morals and world views while being a productive earner for Dear Mother. Please, do not worry. Dear Mother cares for her children.

Oh, by the way… Your papers, please, Comrade?

I can’t let you know what I think of these liberals. You’d ban me from commenting ever again.

School is nothing but taxpayer supported babysitters.

This school Principal is a Puritanical creep, likely as not a Christian Fundamentalist Fascist! It was swine like him who caused the student riots in American schools in the late 1960′s and early 1970′s!

When I was in public high school 50 years ago, a boy was not allowed to put a finger on a girl. We could not touch girls. That was a wonderful rule and stopped the problems before they started.

Banning an activity outright because a few people abuse that activity is draconian, excessive and illogical.
I think all “zero tolernace” policies fall under this category – kids getting suspended for handing out tic tacs that somebody thought were pills, misconstrued threatening language causing expulsions, and on and on.
This is nanny state in its essence:
Make up sweeping rules to control large groups, no individualism, no situational explanations. Easy-to-enforce policies.

Drugs not hugs!

NO hugging! NO anything that could be considered bullying! NO sharing food, your friend could be allergic!

Basically walk in like robots, sit at your desk, and then leave. Best to not even talk to anyone.

You’re talking about children. You are a depraved person.

The principal had no friends growing up and had his luch money stolen all through school. He’ll be damned if anyone is going to have any time of fun during his reign.

There should be no doubt in anyone’s mind why this country is going to hell in a handbag. This moron is a classic example of what is wrong.

I think the principal is just a poor lonely fellow/woman who needs a hug.

No hugging allowed…Interesting! I guess the principal rather have the kids beating the snot out of each other

I think this principal is pathetic. It just keeps getting worse and worse.
I am starting to think we are on the way to a land of NO NO NO.
It kind of sounds like the old Soviet Union.

Parents should rise up and if the Board does not fire this principal then
the parents should vote the Board out and vote a new Board in.

People who run our schools and influence our kids are becoming sickening.
Parents cannot allow their intrusion into our kids lives.

What’s wrong with the 7th graders?

WoW! Did it ever occur to anyone that maybe they are using the hugging technique as a way to cover up dry humping ?!

Does this apply to the pervert teachers as well

Suggestion…Parents in this school districted should go to the next Board of Education meeting and get this idiot principal fired! What’s next?! I’m telling my kids to go to school and hug all their friends tomorrow!

This world is in serious trouble if you can’t hug your friends anymore! I think the principal wasn’t loved as a child!