It’s a short trip from a casual hug to “you know what”
Hug lands student in detention
Central Cabarrus High School forbids bodily contact between students beyond the holding of hands. 15 year-old Ashley Mignosa ran afoul of the rule on her second day of school this year.
“Like the second day of school, I hugged my boyfriend and I got a warning saying I wasn’t allowed to hug or I would be sent to the control room.� Mignosa said Tuesday.
Mignosa did hug someone again, though — a friend in front of the school. She was later punished for it.
Ashley received three days of detention for the illicit touching. The article doesn’t note if the huggee was punished as well.
Ashlee feels that the punishment is a bit extreme and her mother agrees.
“They said hugging leads to groping, groping leads to kissing, and you know what kissing leads to,� Michelle Mignosa said. �And I said: �It’s not like my daughter wanted to have sex with him in the hallway. She was just saying hello.�”
Hug leads to grope leads to kiss leads to unprotected sex in the janitor’s closet. A perfect example of the slippery slope fallacy, a favorite of small minded folks the world over. Contrary to Central Cabarrus elites’ beliefs you can actually prohibit groping without prohibiting hugging. Not every kiss causes the immediate shedding of clothing either, no matter how often it happens in the movies.
If you get a three day suspension for a hug i wonder what you’d get for a peck on the cheek. Probably a week or so. A pat on the back might just be two days detention. God forbid the football players do the old pat on the butt, they’re likely to get expelled.
What the hell is the Control Room?
Public schools get scarier every day.
Um… I don’t know what the “control room” could be. Are they launching rockets here?
I’m always amazed when I come to this site, because at some point, I invariably end up saying “what the…?”
Today was no different.
“Control Room” is the newspeak for “office”. Pretty spooky, eh?
Boy! Let’s hope nothing ever happens in that school. Can you imagine a student from that school winning a gold medal at the Olympics (good), or a “Columbine” type situation (bad) ever happening?
Hugging to express happiness or give comfort would cause the whole school to be suspended….other than the teachers and authorities, of course.
They would never think of hugging anyone or condone any such show of emotions. After all, the breakdown of inhibitions as a result of those actions would immediately turn the school into a house of ill repute.
Too bad they are unable to limit the school to only robots. That would solve their problems.
And now, Mr. Bond, you will enter… THE CONTROL ROOM! HA HA HA HA!
The “slippery slope” arguement has plenty of credibility to it in general, but not in this case. Schools are becoming slightly more and more absurd each and every day, hence the slippery slope. If they had tried this ban 20 years ago, it would have been laughed out of existance. But, it slowly has taken hold…
…and milk leads to coke which leads to beer which leads to pot which leads to…so let’s ban milk!
What’s the punishment for hugging your mother in front of the school?
How about for hugging your father in front of the school?
Or any other family member?
Steven,
Big Brother is watching you. I didn’t see you at the 2 minutes hate today. I’m beginning to suspect that you may be a thought criminal.
The Control Room is double plus good. We will all goodthink at this school.
I wonder if the “Control Room” is what most schools call “In School Suspension”, with the kids being in a rigidly controlled environment separate from the rest of the school population (ours get out of the ISS room only three times a day — lunch and two restroom breaks, with their work sent by teachers).
Well, better go ahead and ban dancing at school dances, too. Don’t know how you’re going to manage a slow dance without a hug (of sorts) being involved. After all, (in educator-logic) dancing means young bodies moving in rhythm, and that leads to close contact, and you can get VD from contact from a toilet seat, and VD causes hairy palms!!! Horrors!
God, it’s like we’ve reverting to Victorian times.
They should organize a student hug-in. Every kid goes around all damn day hugging anyone and everyone. Suspend the whole damn school and throw every kid in detention for a week. When enough kids’ graduation plans are messed up and might cause delay of diploma receipt, causing delay in college attendance, I’m sure pissed off parents will sue the living bejesus out of the moronic administration.
Remember. This is a North Carolina High School. The people in charge are going to be of the Jessie Helms variety.
I graduated from Central Cabarrus in 1980. This article helps answers my relative�s questions of �Why won�t you move back home?�
Unfortunately the rest of the country seems to be going in this repressive direction.
I think that this is the most retatrted thing I have ever hheard in my life. Why is hugging such a problem? I dont think it is at all. Im doing a school project, its for speech & debate, and Im gonna do it on Against the Zero-Tolerance rule. This is absolute bull, Im glad I found this, I’ll use it. Damn…I thought MY school was bad!
Hey! I’m a current senior at CCHS and I totally agree. It’s just lame. But the funny thing? Sometimes, you see people kissing in the halls and they might just be separated. I guess it depends on WHO does it.
Also, the CONTROL ROOM!!! haha…. let’s see… okay, it’s like In School Suspension, but the teachers send people out of class there when they are being disruptive. they can’t send them for more than one block. We also have detention in the control room and it’s where we check in after being absent, etc. In the middle school, and sometimes in the highschool, they call it “ICU”, litterally, “Intensive Care Unit” hahaha. it’s funny.
I’ve been sent there for putting my book on my desk too hard. my friend was sent there for turning to look at her friend. another friend of mine was sent there after raising her hand when our teacher wasn’t in a good mood.
yeah, i’m serious. (this was all during one class). then, one girl got mad and stood up to cuss out the teacher and told the teacher to send her out, but the teacher refused. HAHAHA
Control Room? Kinda weird….
Punishment for hugging a friend….if that were the issue then yeah, maybe too strict, but I think we are overlooking the obvious here. It really isn’t so much the hug as the breaking a rule. We as parents seem to be promoting that it is ok for our children to ignore and berate authority if it doesn’t make them feel good, then we sit back and gripe about the world being as it is.
If they will break the small rules, they will break the larger ones such as shooting heroine into their pretty little veins or getting pregnant at 12 because some 16 year old that made them feel pretty told them it was ok. Wait, how about that small time punk gang that wants to make your child feel like they belong to something so during the initiation, the child kills someone in a drive by or maybe even at school. Oh, I know, that could never happen to your kid….right? Tell that to the millions of parents in America that lose children to gang violence in school or to teenage suicide each and every day. Most came from great homes.
Its a simple rule. Teach them to follow the rules, not break them.
Just my 2 cents worth…….
A control room in my room, was a padded room in which they were only supposed to place “violent” people so they could calm down while they waited for the cops.
I spent 2 years locked in that room because my principle believed that I was possessed by the devil because I had epilepsy and was trying to protect the other students from me. When my mom found out and sued them, I was expelled, and no charges ever came from the 4 year court case. The most that happened was they burned my educational files because the school had “invented” grade reports for classes I never attended.
This is the control room.
as for the rules…I say let the kids be free. As an anarchist and a parent, I say that if you give the kids the responsibility to make the right decisions for themselves they will. Parents often forget, we are here to guide our kids into the world, not direct their entire path.
peace.
(E)ric