{"id":3533,"date":"2002-10-31T15:09:52","date_gmt":"2002-10-31T20:09:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/?p=3533"},"modified":"2002-10-31T15:09:52","modified_gmt":"2002-10-31T20:09:52","slug":"a_kiss_is_just","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2002\/10\/31\/a_kiss_is_just.html","title":{"rendered":"A kiss is just a kiss"},"content":{"rendered":"

Heavens to Betsy. I don’t know whether to be pleased or apalled that some school administrators aren’t focusing all their time on suspending students for pseudo-violent behavior. Instead, some are pursuing pseudo-lacivious behavior, as is the case here<\/a>, where a football player was given a two day “in-school suspesion,” including being kept out of playing in the homecoming game, for …<\/p>\n

… attacking his girlfriend?
\n… groping his girlfriend?
\n… fondling his girlfriend?
\n… dropping to the ground atop his girlfriend (or vice-versa)?
\n… liplocking with his girlfriend, with Maximum Tongue Action™?<\/p>\n

Nope. For giving his girlfriend a kiss on the forehead<\/i>.<\/p>\n

Imagine what would have happened had he kissed her hand, Southern Gentlemanliness or no.<\/p>\n

The district considers “inappropriate” contact between students a no-no and leaves it up to principals to decide exactly what is inappropriate.<\/p>\n

Yeah, because that’s a way to ensure clear, consistent, and non-arbitrary exercise of power.<\/p>\n

Rodney Bowler, Union Grove principal, said kissing, hugging excessively and other physical contact distracts students from academics.
\n“We run a strong academic environment in which kissing is not an activity that needs to take place in the school building,” he said.<\/p>\n

Yeah, it should take place out by the bike racks, like it did in my <\/i>days.<\/p>\n

Come on. Was he smooching with his sweetie in class? Nope. In the library? Nope. In study hall? Nope. In the hallway.<\/i> What sort of “academics” was he being distracted from while there?<\/p>\n

And how come the girl (who presumably gave up her forehead to the kiss willingly) isn’t getting busted for this?<\/p>\n

If anything is being learned from this, it’s not chaste restraint and focus on academics within school walls. It’s hyperbole, as the suspended student laments:<\/p>\n

“It hurt me so bad, my senior year missing my homecoming game. I’m going to be scarred for life. I’ll have no stories to tell my kids.”<\/p>\n

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