Do you believe all schools should ban public display of affection?

[PollM]

Do you believe all schools should ban public display of affection? -----> http://www.youpolls.com/details.asp?pid=912

District Superintendent Sam McGowen 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.

[Red Zelda]

1. Only gym teacher crotch-grabbing

[TechBear_Seattle]

2. Not just no but Hell no

I can understand the desire to prevent snogging in the hallways between class, and I am all for policies telling teachers not to molest students, but a generic blanket ban on "public displays of affection" is ridiculous.

[Apollo11]

3. "snogging in the hallways between class" is what we are talking about

How can you understand the desire to prevent it, and then say that banning it is ridiculous? :eyes:

It sounds like Hillary's position on the Spitzer plan! ;-)

[TechBear_Seattle]

6. Hear me out on this

Many school hallways are fairly narrow. Two people together like that form a block. It also prompts people to slow down and stare or tease. The result is a traffic jam, which delays other students getting to class. I have no problem in principle with snogging in the hallways between class, provided it does not interfere with others. As one grande dame is reputed to have said about homosexuality, "I don't care what they do, as long as they do not frighten the horses."

If the kissing couple would follow the cat-calls of their classmates and get a room, there would be no traffice jam and I would have nothing to complain about. :hi:

[NavyDavy]

4. speaking as a father of a 7 yr old girl who will be in HS eventually

yes i think it should be banned

[gratuitous]

7. Just cover her in cosmoline

I presume you're kidding for the sake of the joke. :hi:

But these "zero tolerance" policies just aggravate me. "Well, we don't want to make distinctions, adjudications, and we can't be bothered to explain it or discuss it with these little monsters or their ignorant parents, so we'll just ban the whole thing." I sympathize with school administrators' desire for order so they can get on with their core mission, but in addition to passing on knowledge to their charges, schools are also social settings, where we should learn about how we treat others, and how they treat us.

[daa]

5. It probably would never come up

until 12 year olds started giving head ont he school bus.

[unpossibles]

8. well, we've all seen how successful banning things is

I mean, kids no longer have sex or do drugs or drink now, right? God bless realistic actions.

[Colobo]

9. Not at all. I hugged and greeted my classmates in high school every single day

It was clean and genuine.