On the Free Range Kids blog, a senior at a New England high school writes in to discuss the petition she's circulating to protest her school's "appropriate touch" policy ("the only appropriate touch is a handshake"). As she says, "As a college-bound 17-year-old, I am insulted by the presumption that I am too immature to decide which kind of touches are appropriate for school. If the administration seriously thinks we can't make that distinction ourselves, how do they expect us to survive in...
>>>On the Free Range Kids blog, a senior at a New England high school writes in to discuss the petition she's circulating to protest her school's "appropriate touch" policy ("the only appropriate touch is a handshake"). As she says, "As a college-bound 17-year-old, I am insulted by the presumption that I am too immature to decide which kind of touches are appropriate for school. If the administration seriously thinks we can't make that distinction ourselves, how do they expect us to survive in college?"
The excerpt is taken from Xeni Jardin's article on BoingBoing. Click through to read the article on BoingBoing. The entry refers to a wordpress site that is also linked below.
http://www.boingboing.net/2011/01/17/kids-petition-agains.html
http://freerangekids.wordpress.com/2011/01/17/no-touching-at-high-school-a-student-protests/
