Two notorious trouble makers caught in the act! What are our schools coming to!?Working in public schools I've seen and heard about my fair share of idiotic school rules. I've seen students expelled for turning in a boyscout knife they accidentally left in their jacket pocket, large swaths of the color wheel and the entire alphabet banned from student clothing, and the elimination of all forms of competition and celebration in the classroom, but this rule just issued by the administration at East Shore Middle School in Connecticut takes the cake. After a series of rampant groin kickings at their school the principal decided that the obvious solutio n was to BAN ALL FORMS OF PHYSICAL CONTACT. That includes shaking hands, high fives, pats on the back, hugging, kissing, virtually all forms of horse play, and, of coarse, the fist bump! Now I could lists a whole host of reasons why this rule is not only ludicrous on its face but also virtually unenforceable, but I think this rule speaks for itself. Congratulations East Shore administraition, your school finally made the news! You really showed the world just how well you can handle regular school discipline problems. Hope you're proud of yourselves!
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Two notorious trouble makers caught in the act! What are our schools coming to!?Working in public schools I've seen and heard about my fair share of idiotic school rules. I've seen students expelled for turning in a boyscout knife they accidentally left in their jacket pocket, large swaths of the color wheel and the entire alphabet banned from student clothing, and the elimination of all forms of competition and celebration in the classroom, but this rule just issued by the administration at East Shore Middle School in Connecticut takes the cake. After a series of rampant groin kickings at their school the principal decided that the obvious solutio n was to BAN ALL FORMS OF PHYSICAL CONTACT. That includes shaking hands, high fives, pats on the back, hugging, kissing, virtually all forms of horse play, and, of coarse, the fist bump! Now I could lists a whole host of reasons why this rule is not only ludicrous on its face but also virtually unenforceable, but I think this rule speaks for itself. Congratulations East Shore administraition, your school finally made the news! You really showed the world just how well you can handle regular school discipline problems. Hope you're proud of yourselves!
When I went to middle school there was far more bad physical contact between students than good. Constant fights, lots of negative pinching and other immature stuff. Of course you don't want middle schoolers feeling each other up either, so I think this might be a good thing.
As someone from Fairfield County, this has been making the rounds in the local newspapers for a little while now. Yes, it's stupid. The administrators claim that there is no "no-touching" policy, but students claim teachers forbid all contact. It's a weird situation. School districts in general around here are utterly incompetent.
Schools have really taken the rules way too far. I remember by the time i was through with Middle and High school, Dodgeball (my favorite sport to play AND my favorite comedy) was completely outlawed in P.E. I mean REALLY? And so Skinners plan to remove Music Gym and Art was successful.
@AgentJ It's really sad. A lot of students don't even get electives any more because they have to double up on the subjects they have the most difficulty in. On top of that NCLB has many schools handing out written tests in PE instead of ACTUALLY encouraging physical activity. And we wonder why so many students are acting out in school!
"@AgentJIt's really sad. A lot of kids don't even get electives any more because they have to double up on the subjects they have the most difficulty in. On top of that NCLB has many schools handing out written tests in PE instead of ACTUALLY encouraging physical activity. And we wonder why so many students are acting out in school!"
I know. The American school system needs renovition and change so badly that i can barely stand it. Especially since i'll be taking teaching classses in college once the quarter starts.
I'm not sure why you thought it was necessarily to group all physical contact as falling under the category of broness. Unless maybe it's an all boy school? Or perhaps you personally only make that kind of physical contact with dudes?
That's a great philosophy, though. To keep people from kicking each other in the groin, or punching each other in the face, let's just keep them from making any physical contact with each other whatsoever. What a fine idea! I'd like to find the person that instituted this rule and give them a nice, firm, no-contact handshake.
I remember in elementary school playing red rover and almost snapping a kids neck making sure he didn't break through our chain... and it was awesome!
I was at a christian school for 2 years, in 4th and 5th grade. The school waged a war against Pokemon, because it "promoted evolution." So the kids would split down the middle, the Pokemon lovers and the Pokemon haters. We would sit at different lunch tables and everything... Thank God two years in an all dudes school in a foreign country straightened me the fuck out... although this rule^^ is twice as ridiculous.
"I remember in elementary school playing red rover and almost snapping a kids neck making sure he didn't break through our chain... and it was awesome!I was at a christian school for 2 years, in 4th and 5th grade. The school waged a war against Pokemon, because it "promoted evolution." So the kids would split down the middle, the Pokemon lovers and the Pokemon haters. We would sit at different lunch tables and everything... Thank God two years in an all dudes school in a foreign country straightened me the fuck out... although this rule^^ is twice as ridiculous."
My elementary school banned the cards (wow that was a long time ago) because there were too many fights over them and such. Thankfully they didnt ban the Pokemon Trading Card Game, which i played on my GBC for a long time.
Gotta love attempts by administrators (at every stage of life) who think that rule breakers will stop breaking the rules if they write more rules. Hooray for reality!
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