John C. Flackett

Hey, would you believe it. In a follow-up from my recent post on not believing everything you see and hear (School Bans Hugging), another well publicised example cropped up this week when the media (a lot of them) reported on a somewhat unbelievable story:

This week a news story broke that a primary school here in South Australia had banned hugging between classmates (8-13 years). Given that Hugging now seems to be the normal way of greeting friends (certainly here in Australia and especially for the sub-twenty age group), this decision seemed harsh…at least on the face of [...]