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jaylectricity

2011-11-04 09:19:21 PM

I have zero tolerance for zero tolerance.

Also I have zero tolerance for:
Women beaters
Rape rapists

And many other things. But not hugging. I have absolute tolerance for hugging. Except when it's my girlfriend and that guy that's been in love with her since high school.

AirForceVet

2011-11-04 09:20:50 PM

I submitted this with a worse headline, but with a better written story.

It didn't happen in Palm Beach in Palm Beach County. It happened in Palm Bay in Brevard County.

/Geez.

The Onion is prophetic

2011-11-04 09:32:03 PM

Well... was the other friend a guy or a girl? We have to know if they're just making sure the innocent children aren't inflicted with the horror of seeing teh gheys hugging at school.

thermo

2011-11-04 10:47:45 PM

I got sent home in 8th grade for kissing my girlfriend in the hallway.... That was 1982.

Lobster_of_Hate

2011-11-05 12:16:14 AM

thermo

That's not a nice thing to call it.

SquiggelyGrounders

2011-11-05 12:18:19 AM

jaylectricity: I have zero tolerance for zero tolerance.

Also I have zero tolerance for:
Women beaters
Rape rapists

And many other things. But not hugging. I have absolute tolerance for hugging. Except when it's my girlfriend and that guy that's been in love with her since high school.

How does one rape the act of rape?

gfoley2334

2011-11-05 12:19:57 AM

I don't know what the big deal is about no hugging. While in school back in 1998 we had a teacher say she was going to put a bed in the hallway, because everyone went to that hallway to make out in between classes.

Laserteeth

2011-11-05 12:21:20 AM

SquiggelyGrounders: jaylectricity: I have zero tolerance for zero tolerance.

Also I have zero tolerance for:
Women beaters
Rape rapists

And many other things. But not hugging. I have absolute tolerance for hugging. Except when it's my girlfriend and that guy that's been in love with her since high school.

How does one rape the act of rape?

Get in the van and I'll show you!

jaylectricity

2011-11-05 12:22:59 AM

SquiggelyGrounders: How does one rape the act of rape?

Earlier I took a comment literally only to find out it was some kind of reference to something else.

Skyred

2011-11-05 12:25:42 AM

Hugging offends my delicate sense.

It also gets you pregnant

SquiggelyGrounders

2011-11-05 12:26:17 AM

jaylectricity: SquiggelyGrounders: How does one rape the act of rape?

Earlier I took a comment literally only to find out it was some kind of reference to something else.

You said it twice?

luthia

2011-11-05 12:27:50 AM

these kids can see whatever they want, totally unrestricted on their phones, laptops, etc. and hugging is the farking line these people draw?

foo monkey

2011-11-05 12:28:02 AM

jaylectricity: I have zero tolerance for zero tolerance.

Also I have zero tolerance for:
Women beaters
Rape rapists

And many other things. But not hugging. I have absolute tolerance for hugging. Except when it's my girlfriend and that guy that's been in love with her since high school.

You said rape twice.

Also, a GIS for "quidditch beater" brings up some weird stuff.

skinink

2011-11-05 12:30:07 AM

That schoolboard sounds like they could use a hug. OR an air kiss, which is probably safer.

seventypercent

2011-11-05 12:30:41 AM

Well, first it's hugging. Next thing, they'll all be square dancing. Before you know it, all of our kids will be real cussards and reprobates.

vexle

2011-11-05 12:31:11 AM

butt-nuggets

2011-11-05 12:33:09 AM

hugs, not drugs

/shugs

Harry_Seldon

2011-11-05 12:34:35 AM

jaylectricity: I have zero tolerance for zero tolerance.

Also I have zero tolerance for:
Women beaters
Rape rapists

I have zero tolerance for:

Egg Beaters
Battered Shrimp
Distressed Furniture

Incontinent_dog_and_monkey_rodeo

2011-11-05 12:36:52 AM

Playing hide and go UFIA?

butt-nuggets

2011-11-05 12:39:14 AM

I'll take your egg beaters, battered shrimp and distressed furniture and raise you: speed bumps and instant coffee.

poxic

2011-11-05 12:42:49 AM

Big issues are big, and very hard to grapple with. Small issues are easy, especially for small-minded petty bureaucrats with an overweening desire for power and control over the lives of others in order to make the world (the one they live in day to day) conform to their personal neuroses and make them feel in control and safe.

Or, y'know, maybe I have issues with certain things.

SquiggelyGrounders

2011-11-05 12:43:32 AM

So does no PDA only apply to 2 or more individuals?

There was this one time in high school that I showed myself just how much affection I had for myself. As I recall it happened in the restroom during World History.

/Cant wait to display affection for myself tomorrow at work.

chookbillion

2011-11-05 12:46:49 AM

poxic: Big issues are big, and very hard to grapple with. Small issues are easy, especially for small-minded petty bureaucrats with an overweening desire for power and control over the lives of others in order to make the world (the one they live in day to day) conform to their personal neuroses and make them feel in control and safe.

Or, y'know, maybe I have issues with certain things.

You said 'ween'
Giggity

stuhayes2010

2011-11-05 12:51:18 AM

Rules are rules, citizen.

xxwilkywayxx

2011-11-05 12:56:28 AM

I submitted this earlier with a much worse headline. Good one, subby.

/zero-tolerance is ridiculous

give me doughnuts

2011-11-05 01:10:46 AM

butt-nuggets: hugs, not drugs

/shugs

Punches, not sack lunches.

wait, what?

Gordon Bennett

2011-11-05 01:13:20 AM

"'Public Displays of Affection' is a school board policy," Brevard County School spokesperson Nancy Davis explained. "It relates to kissing and holding hands and hugging. It is a blanket-wide policy across all schools here."

Punching and kicking still permitted.

boomm

2011-11-05 01:15:51 AM

Kids at that age haven't developed the mental capacity to deal with the consequences of sexual activity. It's a good thing somebody stopped this.

HTApprovedChick

2011-11-05 01:19:25 AM

Skyred: Hugging offends my delicate sense.

It also gets you pregnant

I though those were just the "special hugs." Oh N0ez! Won't somebody think of the children? Public displays of friendship and affection cannot be tolerated!! Hugging will lead to the children having orgies on the bus and trading bj's for candy bars!

Seriously, grow up, school admins.

Cytokine Storm

2011-11-05 01:24:41 AM

HTApprovedChick: Hugging will lead to the children having orgies on the bus and trading bj's for candy bars!

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BillaBong

2011-11-05 01:25:04 AM

School administrators say there are no plans to update the "no hugging" policy that was approved by a committee of ~~parents~~ dumbasses years ago.

fix'd

Uchiha_Cycliste

2011-11-05 01:29:52 AM

Harry_Seldon: Egg Beaters

you best not be talking 'bout the Crank Brothers pedals.

vwr0527

2011-11-05 01:34:40 AM

School administrators say there are no plans to update the "no hugging" policy that was approved by a committee of parents years ago.
highlighted the relevant part.
A group of parents made a decision on behalf of all the parents of the students at that school. School says "nothing we can do about it!"
Besides wishing cancer on these prudes, I guess there's not much you can do about it. It's not like every parent can be on the committee.

Patmaniac

2011-11-05 01:39:08 AM

The over exuberant hugging was prevalent in my local HS. They held a pre-start of school
assembly, All through the halls kids that hadn't seen each other for a week or 2 were freaking out with massive hugging. We ran into my daughter's best friend and her parents in the hallway, The girls immediately leaped into the hugging ritual but without a beat the friends Dad and I embraced in the same fashion and whooped it up, a coincidence of satiric ridicule. All overly exuberant displays of affection ceased.

mikebellman

2011-11-05 01:42:32 AM

No one should teach or encourage affection in school. No one showed my teachers love when they were children and that's why they become teachers. Librarians, doubly so.

Furthermore, the best way to gauge education is to make sure you have a way to track the lesson plans. The most common tracking method is through testing.

Math Education? Math Tests
Spanish Language? Spanish Tests.

Using this method, I believe that passing sex education in the sixth grade means getting knocked up as soon as possible. Those kids should get extra credit. Like "A.P. Sex Ed."

12349876

2011-11-05 01:42:35 AM

SquiggelyGrounders: How does one rape the act of rape?

A second guy giving the rapist a UFIA.

monkeyman3875

2011-11-05 01:43:00 AM

Everyone at that school should hug each other over the next week. Make the entire freaking student body get suspended. Zero Tolerance is Zero Intelligence.

iollow

2011-11-05 01:50:04 AM

The correct response: Every kid should hug the next day.

Harry_Seldon

2011-11-05 01:50:52 AM

Uchiha_Cycliste: Harry_Seldon: Egg Beaters

you best not be talking 'bout the Crank Brothers pedals.

www.fooducate.com

//You militant bikers are such a sensitive bunch. Probably didn't get enough hugs in high school.

Fark Me To Tears

2011-11-05 01:51:59 AM

AirForceVet: It didn't happen in Palm Beach in Palm Beach County. It happened in Palm Bay in Brevard County.

/Geez.

Hey... to the outside world, this took place in Palm-Something or Someplace-Palm, Florida. It's like Cape Coral vs. Coral Springs, Winter Haven vs. Winter Park, or Pine Hills vs. Pembroke Pines. And let's not forget Pine Island, FL, located in Hernando County, vs. Pine Island Center, FL, which is located on Pine Island in Lee County.

Okay... I'll stop that now... My head is beginning to wobble...

espian2

2011-11-05 01:52:21 AM

Know why that school is against premarital sex? It could lead to hugging!

aspAddict

2011-11-05 01:56:38 AM

Good hell, we used to start and end the day with hugs when I was in school. We even hugged our friends between classes, during lunch, and when we were at each other's houses. (Looking back, we were a huggy bunch of misfits.)

School administrators and parents (assuming they worked in unison to approve this rule) are pants-on-head retarded and need a swift kick in the soft bits. Twice.

Mambo Bananapatch

2011-11-05 02:02:45 AM

Daraymann

2011-11-05 02:04:31 AM

thermo: I got sent home in 8th grade for kissing my girlfriend in the hallway.... That was 1982.

But you were 25 at the time.

\crickets...

larrycot

2011-11-05 02:16:59 AM

As a teacher, I hate trying to enforce my district's no hugging policy in middle school.

But I do my best. Four years ago, one of my colleagues was on duty during lunch. There was lots of harmless hugging going on, and she ignored it looking for bigger issues (bullying, etc.) That night a female student went home and claimed she was touched inappropriately on her breast by a male student during a hug. The parents called lawyers. The lawyers got our school video tapes. There was nothing conclusive regarding this particular 8th grader or her allegedly groped breast.

But the video tapes clearly showed teachers on duty who weren't enforcing the no hugging rule, and the district's lawyers suggested to the governing board that the district settle for $150K. My colleague lost her job for failing to enforce rules.

The no hugging rule was supposedly created 20 years back in response to a similar lawsuit which found the district at fault for not outlawing hugging.

So you can fault the district, administration, and teachers in TFA. But you might want to take a look at how many people sue at the drop of a hat.

I didn't get into teaching to be the hug police. But I recognize that telling kids to knock it off and occasionally writing them up may save the district some money in lawsuits, and help protect my job.

The Life Of Brian

2011-11-05 02:26:54 AM

Harry_Seldon: jaylectricity: I have zero tolerance for zero tolerance.

Also I have zero tolerance for:
Women beaters
Rape rapists

I have zero tolerance for:

Egg Beaters
Battered Shrimp
Distressed Furniture

You monster!!!

/Tempura Shrimp ok??

Uchiha_Cycliste

2011-11-05 02:47:54 AM

Harry_Seldon: Uchiha_Cycliste: Harry_Seldon: Egg Beaters

you best not be talking 'bout the Crank Brothers pedals.

[www.fooducate.com image 200x200]

//You militant bikers are such a sensitive bunch. Probably didn't get enough hugs in high school.

To be fair, I was going to give you an opportunity to justify your views. Though, I am quite relieved that you really meant something that I can hate on too. =D

thelordofcheese

2011-11-05 03:01:40 AM

Intimacy and inter-personal affection is da debil.

Better teach them to be distant and emotionless.

Huck And Molly Ziegler

2011-11-05 03:02:15 AM

I have some distressed furniture. I use it as an oversized nightstand. I sanded it thoroughly and then some, bringing out woodgrain in the places where the old white paint had flaked away. I quite like it now, feeling no need at all to repaint it.

Also, no-hugging sux. Seems like the rule should instead be No groping of breasts of girls with lawsuity parents.

Almost Pure

2011-11-05 03:04:30 AM