That kind of stuff in schools just pisses me off.
Thank God my school is somewhat good.
We have never had anything like this.

That principal should be fired on the spot for having stupid rules.

If I was you, I call my local news stations and call superintendent of the school district protesting this rule.

This hasn't only happened in your child's school. There is a high-school in Geelong, Australia, where kids and teenagers are prohibited from touching each other in any way, hugs and holding hands included.

Glad I never went there.

I have personally used letters to the editor many times to get the attention of lazy and moronic county employees. They are VERY afraid of being singled out and attention being drawn to them, and most of the time when a parent really raises hell, they will back down. They HATE publicity, and they HATE parents getting together outside of their control models, like the PTA.

When my disabled son was charged with ' disorderly conduct ' by some redneck local sheriffs deputy in the middle school ( 7th grade ) for not sitting still while he was going thru a change of meds..WITH a doctors note to expect such conduct, instead of allowing me to keep him home and giving assignments for me to help him with, they simply charged him!! I went ballistic and challenged all of them, from the top down, and then wrote a letter called " A Police State School System ? " which was published, and they dropped the phony charge immediately.

The schools insist upon mandatory attendance, no matter what, but when a disabled kid acts out a little they show no compassion and instead call the cops..sickening. I let them know that the next step was a Federal court and a lawsuit for denying my son the education he has a legal right to, and they backed off. Still, it is a mess in the schools, with zero tolerance for many things that do not matter, while the kids are being trained to become slaves to the system and obediant little robots.

On a side note, the other day a sheriffs deputy came to my door. It seems my daughter had taken a walk down our road, which has no sidewalks and is narrow..a country road with a 25 mph speed limit, and was almost run over by a couple of rednecks in a pickup truck speeding down the lane. She yelled " Slow down !!" at them..and they called the cops and said that some crazy lady was walking in the street and about to get run over!! I solved the matter by telling the cop that we have a perfect right to walk as pedestrians on our road, and we have a perfect right to yell at lawbreakers if we wish also. I told him that if they wrote a few tickets on that street, maybe we could walk on our own road without a hassle.

The cop kept looking at me funny, hesitating to leave..and I got a weird feeling from him. Finally he left, and it was then that I realized why he was giving me such looks: I had a T shirt on that reads " I DARE YOU PIGS TO SEARCH ME WITHOUT A WARRANT !!" I usually don't wear that shirt out much unless I am on a bender about cops and civil rights, but he got the message I am sure!! Too bad if they don't like it. He knew that he was dealing with someone who does not back up and does not take crap, from anyone. Better that way than a sheep being led to slaughter by the idiots who masquerade as ' leaders' and politicians.

In any event, never let them bully you and never give up. Write letters and raise hell and don't back down. All it takes is a spark to start a blaze, and it may take only a few people in a community to make changes that will last.