Two British schools announced this week that they would ban all forms of physical contact between students – forbidding hand-holding, hugging and the forming of romantic relationships.
Parents complained to local media, but one school argued that anything could happen if children were allowed to socialize normally. Hylands School in Chelmsford and Southchurch High School in Southend both made the announcements this week.
In a letter to parents, Hylands assistant headteacher Catherine McMillan said that her school would no longer tolerate any physical contact within our community.
This includes any aggressive physical contact, hugging, holding hands, slapping someone, etc, McMillan continued. This is in order to keep your child safe.
If your child is touching somebody else, whether they are consenting or not, anything could happen. It could lead to an injury, make someone feel very uncomfortable, or someone being touched inappropriately.
The deputy head specifically pointed out that romantic relationships would be forbidden at Hyland School, and any breach of the new rules would result in a loss of privileges for the offending child.
In a similar letter to parents, Southchurch deputy head Ms. Murray said that students are not allowed to touch each other whilst on site, the BBC reported.
A school spokesman claimed that the ban encourages students to behave in a courteous and considerate way at all times.
Speaking to EssexLive, one Hyland parent described the policy as draconian.
I have a daughter and her and her friends greet each other with a hug, but if they do that now they’ll [face being] put into isolation, the parent said. There has been a huge outcry from other parents.
After the pandemic, where everyone was starved of human contact, you are now setting everything back. It’s not going to help students’ mental health either.
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They did not ban physical contact and “romantic relationships” between the teachers and students. Were the teachers afraid of competition?
Any parent who does not remove their child immediately from that school and enroll them elsewhere, is mentally unstable, same as the principal of those ‘schools’.
It does not take much thought as to where this policy originated – the US of A – for those doubting this input this URL to your browser bar –https://eric.gov/?id=ED479750— it is possible your browser wont accept it as internet censorship is at an all time high and I use a small totally open search engine with no trackers/phone homes or censorship.
Your right RB in the UK teachers are continually being taken to court and kicked off the teachers register due to “sexual interaction ” with pupils.
With those hormone infested foods these days, testosterone levels are building up, leaving natural behavior to lead the way?
Well “testosterone ” must be affecting female teachers as well as several have been struck off for having “relations ” with young male pupils Karl — I would rather call it good old fashioned Lust.
One of the Seven deadly Sins?
I cant really imagine school without behind the gym hand jobs, they have killed an entire economy.
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Remove your children from these public insane asylums.