I Would Have Spent My Life in Jail

[elise_wanderer]

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/ga-student-suspended-for-year-after-hugging-teacher/Read more... )

Comments

[mundungus42]

Well, at least I'd have excellent company in affection jail.

[elise_wanderer]

*hugs you* *in jail*

[mundungus42]

*sings* We're in the jailhouse now! We're in the jailhouse now! We're sittin' here like hardened thugs, cause we like a-giving hugs! We're in the jailhouse now!

[elise_wanderer]

I love that song!

[duniazade]

*shakes head*

Unbelievable.

At six years old, we - my friends and I, I'm not making any supposition about you :) - were "playing doctor," and the adults just looked the other way; it was considered a normal stage of development. Hugging and kissing on the cheek were positively encouraged as being sociable.

Poor modern kids.

[elise_wanderer]

Poor modern kids indeed!

[pyjamapants]

*looks both ways all shifty-eyed*

*drags you off into the bushes for a hug*

[elise_wanderer]

*emerges from bushes looking all smug*

[beffeysue]

I'd be sitting right there with you in the cell.

[elise_wanderer]

Well, at least I'll have good company!

[ariadne1]

When my students look like they need/want hugs, I ask if they would like one, and I always make sure there are witnesses whose names I know. Because it's not that we need a society where acts of affection are suspect; it's that we have one.

[elise_wanderer]

Sad but far too true.