Hugging is no longer allowed in the Chicagoan area schools as many find it as being inappropriate. You would think that principals would have better things to do and other directions in which to point their benevolence but hugging, I mean isn’t that a bit too much.

One example of schools in which such deviant behavior was noticed lately was Percy Julian Middle School, where principal Victoria Sharts finds herself facing a rather unusual predicament.

Apparently children have been labeled with mischievous conduct after starting a “hug line” through the schools corridors that made some students unable to get to class on time.

 In reaction to the issue the principal has turned  the school into a no-hug zone banning any kind of hugs.

Sharts said that the no-hug ban will address is huggers that hold on or too long, or hug a little too closely. "There is another side to the issue when a hug is either unwanted or becomes inappropriate as judged by one of the students involved."

However, it does appear that students will be able to get away with small amounts of discreet hugging. Sharts told the Chicago Tribune that students will only be punished for public hugging if they refuse to disentangle at a teacher's request.

The need for the Percy Middle School ban could signal a more widespread trend. Other schools, as far away as DesMoines, Iowa and Cornwall, England, have also recently instituted measures to deter students from engaging in spontaneous group hugs, after citing similar concerns.