Just Damn.

Megan probably believes in Jesus. I guess the school system care cure that also.

Not if they keep mimicking the policies of Christian schools like Liberty University which also prohibits hugging members of the opposite sex.

No wonder our young people lack critical thinking skills, their teachers apparently lack them as well.

Zero tolerance is a plague.

And yet in Rutherford County, a boy can push a girl into the bathroom and put his hand down her pants…but he barely gets reprimanded.

Sorry, this fucking pissed me off.

Well, they’re mostly Germans in Mascoutah, right? Of course they’re gonna frown on PDAs.

I went to Jr. High at a school with a “six-inch” rule. Boys and girls were not allowed to be within six inches of each other, including situations like “lining up to buy lunch” and “getting things out of your locker,” and the principal had absolutely nothing against whipping out a ruler to check.

The school also absolutely prohibited dancing of any kind on campus, including the kind of silly, free dancing that little kids do when there’s nothing better to do.

Somehow, in all of that, they managed to completely ignore what happened when one of their events (”Water Day”) turned into “roving packs of older kids hauling younger kids around bodily and placing them in awkward sexual positions with each other.” (Yes, that happened to me. I was picked up by a group of about eight older kids… like a starfish, with one at each arm, and one at each leg, and a bunch laughing and jeering… hauled across the lawn, and thrown into a mud puddle. They then proceeded to kick mud at me, and picked up a boy from my class and threw him on top of me. While the teachers were just watching from the sidelines. Did I mention this was a crazy Christian school? Not that all Christian schools are crazy, or that Christianity makes schools crazy, but that this one was overzealous in its presentation, and that for a place so very overtly, loudly, menacingly Christian, they were really bad at some of that peace and love stuff.)

… So no, this doesn’t surprise me at all.

Mag, I went to a Christian school, too. They threatened to expel any students who were caught dancing, having parties with dancing, and the biggest abomination, going to Michael Jackson’s concert back in 1984! (This story made the Miami Herald). I laugh, because that would be like going to a Disney movie these days…

I’ve always stood by the philosophy that those kinds of stringent rules did nothing but teach us how to rebel and get around the rules.

I swear I am not having kids until I can afford to choose where they go to school.

True Dolphin, but Liberty was a private school you had a choice about attending. At BYU you can’t have Coca-Cola in the dorms.