The inmates are in charge of the asylum.
Via Old Virginia Blog
A North Carolina middle school student has been suspended for hugging a teacher.
WECT-TV reports that Ryan Blackmon, an eighth grade student at Bladenboro Middle School, was suspended when he hugged his teacher after she broke up a potential fight between himself and another student.
“”I said, ‘Thank you,’ after she got done,” Blackmon told the station. “I went to hug her, then she just snatched me up by the arm and drug me to the other teacher and said that I needed to be written up, and that something serious had happened.”
According to school documents obtained by the station, it is against the rules for a student to hug a teacher.
Blackmon’s parents have filed a police report against the teacher and the school after a mark was left on the boy’s arm from where the teacher grabbed him.
More @ CBS Charlotte
The world has gone mad! Mad!
ReplyDeleteWell, I consider all Collectivists mad anyway.:)
ReplyDeleteHow true Blue.
ReplyDeleteWe live in a day where common courtesy, any showing of a emotion other than violence & civility are considered criminal.
Evidently some places Rich, but the smaller the town, at least down here, the friendly the people. I told my wife when we moved from CA to NC that it would be a different world and I think she discounted it. But after about a month she was referring to CA and mentioned "Back in the United States!":) The first time she went to WalMart in Tarboro a huge black lady was exiting and exclaimed some friendly greeting, but my wife looked over her shoulder as she thought she surely must be speaking to someone else.:)
ReplyDeleteHAHA. The South is a whole different country. I imagine it was a culture shock for your wife.
ReplyDeleteIt's pretty much the same here.
This past week we had our county livestock show. My oldest daughter saw some of her teachers from grade school (she's a freshman) and the first thing they did was hug her.
I avoid Houston like the plague. I despise it. But unfortunately sometimes it a necessary evil to go.
Hugging is big around Tarboro also. Any excuse will do!:) Down here we have too many "foreigners" or Yankees and a different atmosphere.
ReplyDeleteThe South is a world away from the North as far as manners and politeness go. Being from North Carolina but living in the yankee state of Ohio I sometime visit some of my last remaining kin in N.C.
ReplyDeleteBeing well versed in the southern language I have to translate some of the words to my northern born wife(lol). It's hard for my wife to understand how well the blacks and whites get along compared to here in the North. She said "the blacks actually look you in the face smile and say good morning back up north they look at you like they hate you". But I warned her that some seemingly polite words are actually words of disparagement like "Bless your heart" it's a phrase of disrespect towards you.
When she first met some of my kin she was hugged many times but she didn't know what to make of it. I had to explain that it was a "Southern" thing, now she knows what to expect when we visit. Living in the north for so long I've lost some of my Southern accent but amazingly as soon as I'm in Carolina it all comes back.
they look at you like they hate you".
ReplyDeleteThat bad huh?
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"Bless your heart" it's a phrase of disrespect
Down here it is not disrespect, but used by ladies who don't approve of something someone has done and want to lighten the criticism.
Where in NC?
Brock,
ReplyDeleteBorn in Concord, raised in Kannapolis. Mom's family was from N.Wilksboro, In the Blue Ridge Mtns. Dad was from Alamance County.
Thanks. I was born in Raleigh and am now in Edgecombe and Carteret counties.
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