Parents Hit Out At School Kissing Ban
Updated : Jun 23, 2009
In what seems a very peculiar turn of events for VeryHappyPig parents have hit back after pupils at a high-achieving school have been banned from kissing.
Chris Richardson, headmaster of Kings of Wessex School in Cheddar, Somerset, has told all 1,200 pupils that they face detention if caught 'snogging'.
But parents at the school for 13 to 18-year-olds claim that kissing is an integral part of teenage life, reports the Daily Telegraph.
Complaining about the kissing ban, one parent of a pupil at the Church of England Foundation School said: "Snogging is part of teenage life.
"Most schools probably frown on pupils kissing. But actually banning it under threat of punishment is going a step too far."
The Kings of Wessex School is also a Specialist Technology College and has received government awards for sustained improvement in exam results over recent years.
Writing on the school's website, Mr Richardson says: "We are a forward-thinking school but we still believe in traditional values."
VeryHappyPig went to an all boy school so kissing certainly wasn’t an option. However if there were girls there I presume the brothers would have banned sharing class rooms never mind kissing. And such rules would have been more than welcome by Mammy VeryHappyPig!