School bans hugging to prevent 'sexual behaviour'

 

Headteacher threatens detention for pupils caught cuddling

 

 

Last updated at 13:01pm on 28th June 2007 Comments

Hugs are off limits for Hackney students

 

A school has banned pupils from hugging and cuddling each other because it does not want to encourage sexual behaviour.

Sir Michael Wilshaw, principal of Mossbourne Academy in Hackney, London, has imposed the ban at the 900-pupil school with immediate effect.

He acted amid fears that hugging could encourage inappropriate behaviour between boys and girls.

 

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But the shock new rule has been blasted by the Hackney branch of the National Union of Teachers.

The union branded the ban "the silliest thing it had heard in a long time".

Mark Lushington, a spokesman for Hackney Teachers' Association, said the order was over-cautious and would cause problems for staff policing it.

He said: "We just can't understand what lies behind this action.

"Sometimes it is appropriate to hug or touch people and you can't legislate for this.

"The ban will see any pupils who engage in hugging with a member of either the same or opposite sex punished with detentions."

Mossbourne was Hackney's first academy when it opened in 2004 on the site of failing Hackney Downs school.

It now has three year groups of children aged from 11 to 14.

Yet another absolutely ridiculous "PC" rule...................................... :rolleyes:

And I thought that only Mexico had weird "rules":rolleyes:

 

Somewhere in Mexico,I can not remember exactly the director of a school also ban the hugs and "contact" of the teachers with the students to avoid missunderstoonding

 

Now I have a feeling between relief and irony,now that I know that not only in Mexico happen this kind of things

I knew that these rules were being discussed and it's sickening to see them come into effect. What's next - holding hands? shaking hands?

 

It's beyond control. People need to say NO, NO, NO to this!!!!

 

STOP DEHUMANISING US!!!

 

SCUM.

Ridiculous. They already banned kiss chase. Let's just ban fun.

Ridiculous. They already banned kiss chase. Let's just ban fun.

 

They already did that last year.:rolleyes:

Seems people are becoming more and more conservative.:confused:

Seems people are becoming more and more conservative.:confused:

 

Or loony!!:rolleyes:

Proper order, hugging is the first step on the road to anarchy! Whatever next...

Proper order, hugging is the first step on the road to anarchy! Whatever next...

 

A full-on nanny state, that's what!:rolleyes:

NO PDA. :tongue:

My old school didn't let us hug. It was bullshit. But I'm out now, so I'm done with all of their ridiculous rules.

:stunned:

 

That's simply stupid.

We had a six inch rule (basically no touching) at my high school, but it wasn't that bad.

 

The problem with so many schools who have these rules is that there is already one of those ridicuous zero tolerance policies in place. When a couple of friends were excited and gave each other a hug or a high five or something, the teachers would know what was up and wouldn't care. If some people were making a real scene about something, they may have been gently reminded that there was a six inch rule after a bit, but they wouldn't get a detention or anything.

disgusting

We had a six inch rule (basically no touching) at my high school, but it wasn't that bad.

 

 

Isn't that sizist??:rolleyes:

What will this achieve? What a ridiculous useless rule.