So the rule is applied unevenly. High fiving in class, contact sports, etc. would just get a stern glance, but hugging someone gets you sent to the principal's office. The principal says that banning all touching is best, because kids might find wiggle room with handshakes and stuff. But then she goes on to say that the rule isn't evenly applied? And assigned seating at lunch is one of the stupidest things I've heard of. School isn't just a place for learning, it's a place for social interaction. I can understand forbidding this kind of stuff while class is in session, but during lunch? Also, who seriously high fives someone when they answer a difficult math problem?
Here's what you do: Tell the warden you'd like to make a phonecall, and call the ACLU and the local media. Problem solved, be sure to flip her the bird when you walk out. "No touching" and all that, what are they going to do, will you back?
Seems like the goal these days is to set rules so stringent that kids can't learn any social mores or natural boundaries for themselves. Then they turn into non-coping basketcases as adults when nobody is there to hold their hand, tell them what to think and how to think it, and wipe their snotty noses for them anymore. Fuck this bullshit.
Didn't they outlaw touching in Demolition Man? Next they'll come for our salt, then Taco Bell takes over...
Oh for fuck's sake! The kids have more common sense than the fucking teachers these days. Even the ones who ARE fucking their teachers.
