Or else you’ll get suspended.
All touching — not only fighting or inappropriate touching — is against the rules at Kilmer Middle School in Vienna. Hand-holding, handshakes and high-fives? Banned. The rule has been conveyed to students this way: “NO PHYSICAL CONTACT!!!!!”
School officials say the rule helps keep crowded hallways and lunchrooms safe and orderly, and ensures that all students are comfortable. But Hal, 13, and his parents think the school’s hands-off approach goes too far, and they are lobbying for a change.
My kids go to school in the Fairfax County Public Schools system, but I haven’t heard anything like this at their schools. Seems pretty bizarre to me that the district would rather ban all physical contact rather than simply decide what’s inappropriate and what’s okay.
via Joanne Jacobs.
And Dr. Helen has more.