A 13-year-old girls junior high school student hugs with a friend and is punished

I heard that a 13 - year - old female junior high school student attending a junior high school in Illinois hugged two friends and was supposed to be detained for two days. She is prohibited from expressing affection at her school, which means that it led to this disposal.

Details are as below.Girl gets detention for hugging - Education - MSNBC.com

Megan Coulter, an eighth grader in the middle school of a musical scooter (a junior high school second grader), was to be punished because it violated the school regulation that it should not express love in the public place. Megan's mother, Melissa, says, "It's a hug in the greetings of the weekend's parting," Melissa said, "It's not like holding a light hug and it's surprising that my daughter will get such a disposition." I will.

Sam McGowen, director of the diocese, said, "We must not express expression of love at school at any time - it is not an item, it represents a lack of judgment, we will lower the trust of ourselves and the school" managed by the school guidance He said that he only obeyed and insisted that the penalty is fair.

Coulter and his wife will make a request to rewrite the school regulations at the next Board of Education to concretely show what love expression refers to. Megan says, "Open the eyes of the Board of Education and ask them to recognize that it is wrong to punish with a hug."