The new rule has been slammed by students, parents, and netizens, with many saying that banning students from hugging is overly 'harsh'.
Digital Desk: A school in the UK has banned its students from hugging as part of their zero-tolerance policy towards physical contact.
Mossley Hollins High School, located near Manchester, issued a directive requiring students to avoid making physical contact with one another. No student should ever touch another student, according to the "no contact" rule, which also forbids holding someone in one's arms, often to show affection.
The "carrying of other pupils, snuggling, or play fighting" is also prohibited by the no-contact policy. According to a Metro.co.uk story, it will be applicable at lunch and even during breaks.
The most recent bulletin from the school stated that "no student should ever touch another student."
Moreover, the new rule has been slammed by students, parents, and netizens, with many saying that banning students from hugging is overly 'harsh'.
"I injured my fingers when I was in a lesson at this school as a current student. My seatmate's friend had to obtain my teacher's permission to give me a hug. Personally, I find it unfair to have to ask permission to embrace a friend; isn't that just unfair?" a current student at the institution stated
Parents claim the school is turning their children into "robots" by imposing no-contact policies in the classroom. The school released a statement to defend the new restrictions in the wake of the social media outrage.
Drew Duncan, the chief executive of the Tame River Educational Trust and the former headteacher of the school, wrote, "So, all we have done is turn our 25 years of good practise into an easy-to-follow rule to help our younger students pick up what our primary students would normally have had the time to show them."
