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This school has banned students from hugging as part of their zero-tolerance policy to physical contact

Mossley Hollins High School, located near Manchester, announced that students must refrain from any physical contact with each other.

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Updated Jun 22, 2022, 11:41 IST

Mossley Hollins High School

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The no contact rule also includes a ban on ‘carrying of other students, cuddling, or play fighting’. It will be applicable during breaktime and even lunch hour.
Unsurprisingly, the new rule has been slammed by students, parents and netizens, with many saying banning students from hugging is overly 'harsh'.
Parents have said the school is turning their kids into 'robots' with the no-contact rules.

In a bizarre move, a school in the UK has banned its pupils from hugging as part of their zero-tolerance policy to physical contact.

Mossley Hollins High School, located near Manchester, announced that students must refrain from any physical contact with each other. The 'no contact' rule, which states 'no student should ever be touching another student', also bans the act of holding someone in one's arms, typically to express affection.

The no contact rule also includes a ban on ‘carrying of other students, cuddling, or play fighting’. It will be applicable during breaktime and even lunch hour, according to a report by Metro.co.uk.

"No student should ever be touching another student," the school announced in its latest newsletter.

Unsurprisingly, the new rule has been slammed by students, parents and netizens, with many saying banning students from hugging is overly 'harsh'.

"I'm a current student at this school and I was in a lesson and I hurt my fingers. My friend sat next to me had to ask my teacher for permission to hug me? I just personally think that it's just unfair, having to ask too hug your friend is ridiculous?!" said a current pupil from the school.

Parents have said the school is turning their kids into 'robots' with the no-contact rules.

Following the social media backlash, the school issued a statement to defend the new rules.

"So, all we have done, is turn our 25-years of good practice into an easy-to-follow rule to help our younger students pick up on what our primaries would normally have had the time to show them," wrote Drew Duncan, chief executive of the Tame River Educational Trust and the school’s former headteacher.

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