Reason Magazine - Daily Brickbats > Penny For Your Thoughts:
"When officials at New Jersey's Readington Middle School cut the lunch period to 30 minutes, students got upset. Some of them showed their displeasure by paying the $2 cost of their lunches in pennies. Twenty-nine eighth graders received detention for their payments."
Arizona students stage hug-a-thon to protest 2-second hug rule detentions - Boing Boing:
"Shepherd Junior High School in east Mesa, Arizona has begun vigorously enforcing its rule prohibiting hugs of more than two seconds' length, and students have responded with a 'hug-a-thon'...
[From the comments, and too true.]
Wow... we are becoming more alienated from each other all the time. When I was a kid, campers hugged camp counselors, students hugged teachers, we hugged each other, there was AFFECTION all around and no PDA, pedophile, stalker, etc PARANOIA... Then we wonder why we have so many psychos and serial killers now. We've become a cold, paranoid country where "don't talk to strangers" has turned into almost "everyone is a sexmaniac, pervert, pedophile, stalker, and lunatic unless proven otherwise." This is horrible."
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