US school district bans hugs, party invitations and birthday cake; while on the otherside of the pond there will be NO BFF making allowed.

First Grade Student Hug Teacher

. . . Maryland school district is taking it to the extreme, banning everything from hugs to birthday cake. 

St. Mary’s County adopted the new security measures in its 17 public schools in the aftermath of the shooting in Newtown, Conn. that left 20 school children dead as well as six adults.

The new policy is meant to protect against a number of potential threats to children’s safety, including food allergies, inappropriate contact between adults and minors, and even hurt feelings.

Specifically, the rules ban hugs between children and adults who aren’t their parents, limit sibling visits during the school day, and prohibit kids from sharing baked goods or giving out birthday invitations at school. 

Impromptu teacher-parent conferences are also banned in the new policy.

Referring to the rule regarding party invitations, Hall said, ‘If there are 20 individuals in the class and someone brings in seven birthday invitations, it was creating an academic disruption. People were getting their feelings hurt.’

School board member Cathy Allen said she thinks the new rules are ‘horrible’ and will have the unwanted effect of discouraging parents from volunteering at the school. 

‘The idea that you can’t go into a school and be hugged by a child, or go in [to] have lunch or be out on the playground and that you can only push the swing for your child and no one else’ is unacceptable,

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We’ve created a society of self-entitled idiots who couldn’t figure out what the founders meant by “pursuit of happiness” anymore School Bans Best Friends To Protect Children’s Feelings In Merry Ol’ England the drive to not offend, or allow anybody to suffer the horrible consequence of hurt feelings, has reached an even more ridiculous height of insanity. With the socialist idea of collectivism urging on the mind-numbed followers of repackaged Marxism, in British schools children in elementary schools are being encouraged to only play in large groups. They are doing it because they want tosave the child the pain of splitting up from their best friend. Talk about stunting the emotional growth of children. Though this practice in some BritishWithout that growth, however, and with the dependency upon collective groups being urged by the teachers, the childrenwill make great mindless automatons that do as they’re told in society by the ruling elite when they are all grown up.

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