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Source: http://news.bostonherald.com/localRegional/view.bg?articleid=133821

Teachers swing into action over kiddie hug
By Jenna Wolf
Thursday, April 6, 2006

Someone call the campaign for "Hugs Not Drugs."
        Parents of a kindergarten student in Maynard are outraged that their daughter and her classmate were disciplined for hugging each other on the playground.
        Michael Marino and Brenda Brier told WCVB-TV that their 5-year-old daughter, Savannah, who attends Greenwood Elementary School, was forced to write a letter, complete with teacher corrections, claiming she didn't like the hug.
        "I touched Sophie because she touched me," Savannah wrote. "I didn't like it when she hugged me."
        Brier said her daughter was "sad" that her classmate was disciplined for comforting her after a fall on the playground.
        "When kids are being affectionate, they should not be disciplined or have to say the opposite or that they don't like hugging," Marino said.
        The superintendant of Maynard schools, Dr. Mark Masterson, said in a statement that a teacher's aide told a teacher one student lifted the other off the ground and gave her a bear hug.
        After a meeting with school officials yesterday, Brier and Marino pulled their daughter from school. They said they want an official apology and are considering transferring Savannah to another school.

That sound you hear...

[Shadow Wrought]

Is me ripping out my hair in frustration. They're five for f__k's sake! FIVE!!! How can there possibly be anything inappropriate about a five year comforting another five year old after a fall.

On the flip, I no longer need coffee this morning as my pulse is quite active...

Re:That sound you hear...

[G)-(ostly]

Since she was disciplined for "rough-housing" for picking the other girl up with the hug, I don't know.

Not that it isn't still a wee ridiculous, but at least be outraged over the right thing.

Re:That sound you hear...

[Shadow Wrought]

There's nothing wrong with a five year old picking up another five year old with a hug either. Disciplining her for trying to help out a classmate is still stupid. So, call it 90% of the wrath.

It's been going on for a while...

[TechnoLust]

When I was young, my sister (2 years younger than me) and I went to elementary school together, then she started going to a different school (problems with one of the teachers). The next year, they moved me to that school also, so we'd be at the same one. Her class was leaving the cafeteria as mine was entering the first week of school and she came up and hugged me. Our parents received a letter and we were both warned that if we hugged at school again, we would both receive detention. My mother threw a

Are you trying to cure my homesickness, or what?

[Ethelred Unraed]

Because you're doing a damned fine job of it.

/me doffs his Pickelhaube

Cheers,

Ethelred

Re:Are you trying to cure my homesickness, or what

[Philip K Dickhead]

Pickelhaube! I have one, next to my Monocle - in the glass case here!

You want a cure for homesickness? The NSA/AT&T story doesn't hurt.