"No hugging at School": More Red Necks

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MASCOUTAH, Ill. - Two hugs equals two days of detention for 13-year-old Megan Coulter. The eighth-grader was punished for violating a school policy banning public displays of affection when she hugged two friends Friday.
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"I feel it is crazy," said Megan, who was to serve her second detention Tuesday after classes at Mascoutah Middle School.

"I was just giving them a hug goodbye for the weekend," she said.

Megan's mother, Melissa Coulter, said the embraces weren't even real hugs — just an arm around the shoulder and slight squeeze.

"It's hilarious to the point of ridicule," Coulter said. "I'm still dumbfounded that she's having to do this."

District Superintendent Sam McGowen said that he thinks the penalty is fair and that administrators in the school east of St. Louis were following policy in the student handbook.

It states: "Displays of affection should not occur on the school campus at any time. It is in poor taste, reflects poor judgment, and brings discredit to the school and to the persons involved."

Coulter said she and her husband told their daughter to go ahead and serve her detentions because the only other option was a day of suspension for each skipped detention.

"We don't agree with it, but I certainly don't want her to get in more trouble," Coulter said.

The couple plan to attend the next school board meeting to ask board members to consider rewording the policy or be more specific in what is considered a display of affection.

"I'm just hoping the school board will open their eyes and just realize that maybe they shouldn't be punishing us for hugs," Megan said.

Wow whats up with the east coast?

[Stark]

Dude, 'Displays of affection should not occur on the school campus at any time. It is in poor taste, reflects poor judgment, and brings discredit to the school and to the persons involved.' That's some awesome shit right there. Not 'it's inappropriate', no it's in bad taste and means you're stupid! It even embarrasses the school, something I know teenagers care deeply about.

[Metatwaddle]

Wow whats up with the east coast?

Um...

MASCOUTAH, Ill. - Two hugs equals two days of detention for 13-year-old Megan Coulter. The eighth-grader was punished for violating a school policy banning public displays of affection when she hugged two friends Friday.

MASCOUTAH, Ill.

Ill.

Downstate Illinois is not the East Coast.

[Adrian Laguna]

Clearly this rule was written to prevent teenagers from making out in the hallways. However, because it was written by idiots and enforced by people allergic to thinking, we get the ridiculous situation of a friendly hug being punished for being "in poor taste" and reflecting "poor judgement".

And quite frankly I don't see why making out in the hallways should be explicitly against the rules anyway. Back in my school the security guys just loudly told them to knock it off and get to class.

[fusion]

I mean the eastern side of United States that is what I meant.

[Flagg]

I mean the eastern side of United States that is what I meant.

It's the midwest. And it's even worse in southern Illinois wich is like a cross between the midwest and the south.

[Metatwaddle]

I mean the eastern side of United States that is what I meant.

1. "Coast" usually implies there is an ocean nearby. 1000 miles is only "nearby" compared to the moon.

2. Illinois is in the Midwest. It is in the MIDDLE of the continent.

[Mr. Coffee]

I mean the eastern side of United States that is what I meant.

Since when is a town on the MISSISSIPPI RIVER "eastern" US? It's right acorss the river from St.Louis. It's not the East Coast... It's the MIDCOAST.

[Stark]

I always found the term 'midwest' to be just nuts. Is it a holdover from the 'old west' period of expansion (like 'mid rim' or something)?

[Flagg]

I always found the term 'midwest' to be just nuts. Is it a holdover from the 'old west' period of expansion (like 'mid rim' or something)?

I've always found it kind of retarded, myself. But it's just like the terms "middle east" or "near east".

[phongn]

I always found the term 'midwest' to be just nuts. Is it a holdover from the 'old west' period of expansion (like 'mid rim' or something)?

Yes.

[Stark]

When I was a kid and people said 'midwest' I thought they meant 'the west coast in between Seattle and Sanfran' or something: the middle of the west coast. Not 'west a bit from the east'. Then again, when i was a kid I didn't know that in the 1870s the US didn't go all the way yet.

[Adrian Laguna]

Then again, when i was a kid I didn't know that in the 1870s the US didn't go all the way yet.

Oh yes it did, it's just that most of the western parts were still just territories rather than states in their own right.

[Stark]

Oh yes it did, it's just that most of the western parts were still just territories rather than states in their own right.

I don't pretend to understand the situation or the distinction.

[Metatwaddle]

When I was a kid and people said 'midwest' I thought they meant 'the west coast in between Seattle and Sanfran' or something: the middle of the west coast. Not 'west a bit from the east'. Then again, when i was a kid I didn't know that in the 1870s the US didn't go all the way yet.

That's what I thought Middle East meant when I was little, too. And then my dad explained that we didn't live in the Middle East, we lived in the Mid-Atlantic.

I thought it was pretty silly.

[Justforfun000]

This is one of the stupidest things I have ever heard of. How the hell can a school have the right to outlaw "affection"? Who the fuck do they think they are?

It's reasonable enought to have some degree of control over blatant near-sexual smooching and what have you, but this is just insane. You're sending a message that touching each other is inherently BAD. Fucking stupid.

[Darth Wong]

When I was a kid and people said 'midwest' I thought they meant 'the west coast in between Seattle and Sanfran' or something: the middle of the west coast. Not 'west a bit from the east'. Then again, when i was a kid I didn't know that in the 1870s the US didn't go all the way yet.

Dude, there are only three states in the US: the East Coast, the West Coast, and all of that shit in-between

[Ghost Rider]

When I was a kid and people said 'midwest' I thought they meant 'the west coast in between Seattle and Sanfran' or something: the middle of the west coast. Not 'west a bit from the east'. Then again, when i was a kid I didn't know that in the 1870s the US didn't go all the way yet.

Dude, there are only three states in the US: the East Coast, the West Coast, and all of that shit in-between

Mike, you've been in the midwest. You know what's there.

To most Americans the US is just California, stuff in the middle, New York City.

As for the article I'm amazed it got made into one. Public displays of affection was some asinine taboo in my time. Hell when I did some research project into it, found out it was a school rule that had detentions and possible higher levels depending on the level of infraction.

So hearing it's still there, it was probably there since the dawn of the school board rules and will never leave since it's some fucked up legacy rule.

[Stark]

To be sure, this line of thought was brought up by Springsteen being described as 'middle America'. It struck me (at five) as a very strange term to use for almost 50% of your country. Especially since 'middle America' appears to exclude Texas!

[That NOS Guy]

To be sure, this line of thought was brought up by Springsteen being described as 'middle America'. It struck me (at five) as a very strange term to use for almost 50% of your country. Especially since 'middle America' appears to exclude Texas!

That's because Texas is, was, and will always be a seperate country that borders the US

[JME2]

WTF.

[The Yosemite Bear]

on one hand I always found those couples in High School who were surjically attached other, and who were constantly PDAing, duisguiting. However this is once again our evil school petit fascists have no reasoning.

[Flagg]

To be sure, this line of thought was brought up by Springsteen being described as 'middle America'. It struck me (at five) as a very strange term to use for almost 50% of your country. Especially since 'middle America' appears to exclude Texas!

That's because Texas is, was, and will always be a seperate country that borders the US

And one that we should burn off the map.

[The Yosemite Bear]

no, we should just unleash the SDN/SB civil war re-enactors, and have sherman march to the sea continue again.

[Shroom Man 777]

"Goodbye my love" - He doesn't say it... There is no room for softness... not in Sparta. No place for weakness. Only the hard and strong may call themselves Spartans. Only the hard... only the strong.