{"id":1203,"date":"2019-08-03T15:03:18","date_gmt":"2019-08-03T19:03:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/?p=1203"},"modified":"2019-08-03T15:03:28","modified_gmt":"2019-08-03T19:03:28","slug":"polk-county-schools-outlaw-sexually-suggestive-behavior-period","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/2019\/08\/03\/polk-county-schools-outlaw-sexually-suggestive-behavior-period\/","title":{"rendered":"Polk County schools outlaw &#8216;sexually suggestive&#8217; behavior, Period."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 760px) 100vw, 760px\" src=\"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/kissing.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1204\" width=\"320\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/kissing.jpg 760w, https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/kissing-300x235.jpg 300w\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">School officials want students to stop the bumping, grinding and groping, officially making \u201cunsuitable, intimate, sexually suggestive behavior\u201d forbidden on school campuses, school buses or during school-sponsored activities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The restrictions were put under the &#8220;disruptive behavior&#8221; section of the student code of conduct. Polk County Public Schools spokesman Kyle Kennedy said it gives principals, assistant principals, and deans another way to stop inappropriate contact.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;This is meant to give more support to administrators\nwhen they need to deal with any situation involving (public display of\naffection) that is particularly disruptive,&#8221; Kennedy said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There are different levels of discipline to deal with the PDA, beginning with contacting the student&#8217;s parents up to the out-of-school suspension.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">District officials did not say if one incident preceded the\nstronger language in the code. They also did not specify what constitutes a\ndisruptive public display of affection, if it included hand-holding or a quick\nsmooch hello or goodbye.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">School Board member Billy Townsend said students are\ninclined to show affection just as much now as when he was in school, also in\nthe 1980s, but he defers to the staff&#8217;s rationale in adding this language to\nthe code.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;I hope we&#8217;ll use common sense,&#8221; Townsend said.\n&#8220;If we find it becomes an enforcement problem, we&#8217;ll rethink it.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Townsend said that kids today are far more sexually\nresponsible than they were during his school days.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;Go watch 16 Candles and tell me how sexually\nresponsible our generation was,&#8221; Townsend said, citing an implied date\nrape scene at the end of the movie.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>School officials want students to stop the bumping, grinding and groping, officially making \u201cunsuitable, intimate, sexually suggestive behavior\u201d forbidden on school campuses, school buses or during school-sponsored activities. 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