Hug with caution, Big Brother says so...

Sat Jun 13, 2009 9:26 am » by **Bobbyinedmonton**

Don't lose hope. Don't lose hope. Don't lose hope.

[/b]‘Needless hugging?’ What will teens think of next? :: Oxford Press [/b]
http://www.oxfordpress.com/needless-hug ... ments=true

By D.L. Stewart
Contributing Writer Updated 1:46 PM Wednesday, June 10, 2009

As detailed by a recent front-page story in The New York Times, teenage hugging has become an epidemic stretching from one coast to the other. Girls are hugging girls. Boys are hugging boys. Boys are hugging girls and vice-versa, which is not really a new development, except that now the inter-gender embraces do not necessarily have ulterior motives.

Is Hugging Bad for Teens? :: NJ.com

by Joel Schwartzberg
Friday May 29, 2009, 1:12 PM

"We're not afraid, we just get in and hug," said Danny, a Pascack Hills junior.

Administrators are not so enthusiastic. According to the article, "Schools from Hillsdale, N.J. to Bend, Ore....have banned hugging or imposed a three-second rule." The principal of Hillsdale's George G. White School, which instituted a hugging ban, told the Times, "It was needless hugging...It wasn't a greeting. It was happening all day."

The hello hug :: TuscaloosaNews.com
http://www.tuscaloosanews.com/article/2 ... -hello-hug

By Sarah Kershaw N.Y. Times News Service
Published: Tuesday, June 2, 2009 at 3:30 a.m.
Last Modified: Monday, June 1, 2009 at 10:37 p.m

Comforting as the hug may be, principals across the country have clamped down. 'Touching and physical contact is very dangerous territory,' said Noreen Hajinlian, the principal of George G. White School in Hillsdale, N.J., who banned hugging two years ago. 'It was needless hugging — they are in the hallways before they go to class. It wasn't a greeting. It was happening all day.'

We should all be so capable of hugging each other. I know that there is hope in a new generation of kids who make their hellos a hug, but the organisations and authorities who are making a point of regulating and controlling it... chill me to the bone.

Just remember that today this a goofy headline you may ignore, but tomorrow it could grow into a bill before our governments laying down the controls and regulations of public contact; The Who, How, Where, When of hugging... be sure to check with your lawyer.

Sat Jun 13, 2009 9:46 am » by **Oddi**

Wtf is going on in this world :hell:

Sending kids out with weapons and teach them how to kill other people is ok but Hugging or showing that you care for the people around you is a no no.

:badair:

Sat Jun 13, 2009 10:49 am » by **dlslith**

Yes it's a sad, sad state of affairs. Heaven forbid I hug my sons in public.

Sun Jun 14, 2009 4:38 am » by **Bawdiemaude**

sad to say i was a student in thatcher britain - and a scottish one at that...so i learned the joy of protesting

and ive watched a few vids on here with ppl protesting - mainly irreverently incredibly important topics. I love it and i have been threatening the parents at the 'very nice school' i send my childrent that i want to start a protest

i think this would be the best protest
we coudl all wear shirts saying 'hug me'

and shout- what do we want?
hugging?
when do we want it?
NOW!!!!!!!!

go hug everyone NOW oh, and a tree while you are at it.....

Sun Jun 14, 2009 5:19 am » by **Drsayus**

nice post, ban on hugging!!!! it depends really on how they or one interprets hugging:headscratch:

i can see how this could effect curtain areas like prisons, it would be a great way to shift drugs and that one uses alone compared with the many others can implicate areas.
maybe such as schools.

but cum on!!! :help:

bet over the top aint it

I work at a restaurant and and alot of the lads and girls greet and depart with one! why so over the top!

ow btw them articles made the schools sound like they where all on LSD lolz