by Todd Daigneault

Created on: May 18, 2009   Last Updated: February 17, 2010

Too much political correctness has entered our society, filtering through into the school system. In some ways it's highly understable: molestations of students by teachers has run rampant; threats of violence and violent assaults and murders have quadrupled over the last numbers of years easily through the school system. Children are being taught at a young age through the no touching rules to prepare themselves for an adult world-where violence, assault, criminal and sexual harassment has reached epidemic levels in our North American society. By starting to deal with it at the school-age level is to try and interdict through the policy (and other policies), and through education of young students to try and mitigate at least some of what is going on in the adult world.

A good effect of the policy helps to prevent molestation of students by teachers, which has also reached epidemic levels, so exemplified by the Mary Kay Letourneau case and her molestation of the young boy of South-East Asian descent. A case that brought to light in a sick and melodramatic way just how many of these molestations have been going on. Although Ms. Letourneau served a hefty prison sentence (and later married the boy when he reached adulthood), implementing a policy of no touching helps to prevent young and naive students from teachers touching and caressing them and their private areas.

Although such policies (and education of such things) could never completely stop the molestation of students by teachers, it has helped to at least mitigate the numbers. Especially when it comes to young, naive students. But emotionally immature students and teachers will continue to become sexually entangled, at least with stricter policies the numbers will continue to fall. A teacher may not be able to hug her young student anymore, but at least it will be much harder for that young student to be taken advantage of. If it is done that much, if the schools have become too strict, they will at least have a dividend pay-off.

Students not touching each other on school grounds may be a little too strict, especially young nine-year olds holding hands, which I think most of us adults had a little girlfriend or boyfriend when we were around that age. Penalizing young, innocent child, scarring them emotionally by elevating hand holding and a little kiss here and there is absolutely wrong. Sadly, in our society one extreme can lead to another extreme, where a middle ground and better education is required.

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