Say good-bye to Hugs

Everyone needs a hug everyonce in a while, or even a simple high-five would work to get spirts up, but schools are begining to ban hugs and high-five from schools all together. This is outrageous. Personally I love a good hug everyonce in a while, especially when pressure is high and the pressure is the highest at school. Are schools pushing their limits when banning physical contact?
I believe so and so does 84% of the 5,215 people asked. They argue that this is a waste of time and energy. Some schools have pushed their limits and have banned all physical contact- even a simple high-five. Students are punished for braking the rules- resulting in detentions or even in some extremes, suspentions. They are not considering any differences in forms of touching. Since kids will fight for their rights and say "if they can hi-five, then we can hug" schools are banning all types of touching.
This has outraged many students and their parents. There are petitions going around the schools to unban physical contact. They believe that schools are taking to much control and should worry about other things, and not about students touching one another in harmless ways. It is one thing if they are trying to hurt one another and another thing if they are just giving eachother a simple hug or high-five. What if someone is having a bad day, the pressure of school can cause many students to have bad days, and they just need a hug, or a student does good in a sports game, they can't get a high-five? It seems a to be too much and school should worry more about their students struggling in classes and with their grades.
http://education-portal.com/articles/Hugs_and_High_Fives_Banned_in_School.html

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Hi!!

My name is Tiffany and I am a junior at Salem State. Hopefully I will be graduation in May 2011, but that is probably not going to happen :( I am the oldest of 6 kids, ranging from almost 2 to 20, so my life is never boring. I posted a picture of last Christmas's. As of right now I am an accounting major and I am planning on graduating with an accounting degree, but I took an education class to see if I would like to consider a possible future in education.

I graduated from Peabody Veterans Memorial High School, class of 2007. High School is where I met my wonderful boyfriend ;) who I have been dating for almost 3 years (October 4th<3).>

I never got involved in high school sports but I did play a softball recreation league. I still play now in the 18 plus league. There are players from 18- over 40. It is the most fun and best expereince. I even recruited my 18 year old sister, who has never played sports before besides before gymnastics, but of course she was good at it, just like everything she does! It was an awesome bonding experience, and I love playing with the team! We just recieved a trohpy the other night for coming in second place in a tournament and we came in third place for the playoffs (not to bad) !

My favorite thing to do it go to the beach, go to the gym! We are lucky enough to have a beach house and I spend my entire summer up there with my family and friends!!! My parents also own a gym which just opened in Peabody, Latitude Sports Club where I get to go and do pilates, kick boxing, and yoga! I am trying to get the gym to start childrens yoga, which I think would be great for all kids to pick up. Now that the gym is finally open, I get to help make opinions in what would be good for kids and I am trying to think of differnt ideas to keep kids active, so if anyone has any thoughts let me know and I will try to get it !!

I will try to post some photo's - my computer crashed and I lost all my photos :( ... so I am going to have to find some!