Touching is an essential part to healthy human development and expression. However, in attempt to keep safety and order officials at Kilmer Middle School in Vienna, VA have made all touching against the rules. This is extremely detrimental to normal psychological development. In addition, it is avoidance of common adolescence problems, and is miseducating the students on what is appropriate. Help convince the school officials to find a better way to educate and support their students!
I have developed a petition via the care2.com petition site so we can help this school board discover better options. I am so grateful for all the work our public schools do, but feel they need our help sometimes, too. I hope this petition will become a catalyst for other public schools that informally have this as a policy.
Please read, sign, and pass on (at least pass on to those who may be interested). Thank you!
petition - www.thepetitionsite.com/1/help...enna-va
news article about Kilmer school - www.npr.org/blogs/news/2..._total_1.html
Peace,
Lynn
I have developed a petition via the care2.com petition site so we can help this school board discover better options. I am so grateful for all the work our public schools do, but feel they need our help sometimes, too. I hope this petition will become a catalyst for other public schools that informally have this as a policy.
Please read, sign, and pass on (at least pass on to those who may be interested). Thank you!
petition - www.thepetitionsite.com/1/help...enna-va
news article about Kilmer school - www.npr.org/blogs/news/2..._total_1.html
Peace,
Lynn
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Re: out of control with "no touch" policy in schools?
Mon, August 20, 2007 - 6:23 AMMy mother in law is a retired grade school teacher and it saddened her deeply when they could no longer hug or touch children, she often wondered how many children where not shown affection at home. -
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Re: out of control with "no touch" policy in schools?
Tue, August 21, 2007 - 6:13 AMI am a high school English teacher. I've been out of the classroom one year, but my daughter is a second-grader, so I can speak from two perspectives. I touched my students -- hugs when they were moving away from town or it was the end of the year, hand on the shoulder to get attention, pats on the back. High-schoolers aren't too touchy-feely, so it's easy to refrain from going overboard.
And I know my daughter hugged her 1st grade teacher all the time.
Maybe there's a difference in community expectations. I know I've heard the argument plenty that individual school districts need to be able to make the choices that are right for their communities based on the dominant feeling in those communities. I, too, think it's a sorry state of affairs to declare a strict no-touch policy, but we've got to remember that it isn't like that everywhere. -
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Re: out of control with "no touch" policy in schools?
Tue, August 21, 2007 - 8:52 AMWhen preventing anyone from being mad wins over children's health, I have to say there are times when change is necessary - culture or not.
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