The Education Wonks features a post citing a Boulder Daily Camera article that announces that hugging has been banned at a North Boulder middle school.
Here’s our favorite part of the newspaper report:
Centennial Assistant Principal Becky Escamilla said that some concerned sixth-grade teachers asked the administration to spell out policies surrounding “PDAs” – jargon for public displays of affection.
“There was some sixth-grade romance going on,” she said.
Escamilla said the school is not anti-hug.
“We just want our kids to be appropriate at school and focus on academics,” she said.
Does this mean French kissing is out?
Joe Gandelman is a former fulltime journalist who freelanced in India, Spain, Bangladesh and Cypress writing for publications such as the Christian Science Monitor and Newsweek. He also did radio reports from Madrid for NPR’s All Things Considered. He has worked on two U.S. newspapers and quit the news biz in 1990 to go into entertainment. He also has written for The Week and several online publications, did a column for Cagle Cartoons Syndicate and has appeared on CNN.