A primary school in Australia has put a ban on hugging and other display of affection on its senior grade pupils saying it can set "bad example" to younger students and adversely affect them.
Students of the Largs Bay Primary School, aged between six and seven, have been adviced not to hug their friends stating it would set a "bad example" to younger students, Herald Sun reported today.
Upset over the move, many parents said the school should act only if the display of affection was inappropriate, rather than a blanket ban for all of the children.
They said the school's deputy principal and counsellor had told the students of the ban after an outbreak of hugging when friends were reunited after the holidays.
"I don't want my child to go to a school in which displays of affection lead to punishment," a mother said. After complaints from parents, the school has issued a statement defending their policy of banning hugging and other display of affection for "boyfriends or girlfriends" in the senior grade.
"Hugging is not banned (between friends) at Largs Bay Primary School, but we do discourage displays of affection in the schoolyard among students in years 6 and 7 who have a boyfriend or girlfriend at the school," Principal Julie Gail said, adding we want our older students to set a strong example for younger students at the school. Advertisement
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