Her mother, Leslee Swanson was infuriated by the punishment - in fact, when she went to pick her daughter up from detention, she gave her a good, hard hug.

"I'm trying to understand what's wrong with a hug," said Swanson, 42.

So am I, Leslie.  But more to the point - I'm trying to understand why you haven't yanked Cazz out of that Putrid Propaganda Prison™ - posthaste.

But administrators said such policies are standard-issue at middle schools across the country.

Oh, that is such  bullshit.  Name me 50 schools that practice that asinine excuse-for-a-policy.

"Really, all we're trying to do is create an environment that's focused on learning, and learning proper manners is part of that," said Dave Haack, the principal of Cascade Middle School, also in Bend. "This is not us being the romance police."

Pardon the semi-pun, but the fuck  it isn't.  This is you Smarmy Little Pisspots™ caving in to some skank-assed liberal PC group up there pushing an agenda, and trying to destroy school morale any way you possible can.

Go fuck yourselves and the horses that rode you on the way in.

Students only end up with detention after repeated warnings, he said.

I got your "repeated warnings" right here, dumbass:  My steel-toed boot repeatedly shoved forcefully up whatever it is on you that passes for a crotch.

Outside Pilot Butte Middle School on a recent lunch break, two seventh-grade girls said they disagreed with the school's policies.

"I think we should be able to hold hands or hug at least," Annie Wilson, 12, told The Bulletin in Bend. "Because it's not doing anything bad."

No, it's not, Annie.  Except to some dumb shit up there who thinks that excessive affection might lead to Cthulu-knows-what.

Others are more in favor of the rule, like Christina Barackman, 13, also a Pilot Butte seventh-grader.

"I think they're nice to keep boundaries for kids," she said.

That so, Chrissy?  Tell me, dearie - how much do you weigh?  Why do I get the feeling that you couldn't pay  kids to hug you?

Schools need to define and actively teach what they do want to see in student behavior, said Rob Horner, a University of Oregon professor who works with schools across the nation on "building social culture that supports effective learning."

"To say 'no hugging' really blows it," Horner said. "That's exactly the sort of trap that, as soon as you say that, what is the first thing everyone is going to want to do?"

Actually, Professor, schools should be teaching the friggin' three R's  and leaving everything else the hell alone.

At home after school on a recent afternoon, Cazz, the Sky View student, described the no-hug rule as "dumb."

"Hugging is like a sign of affection," she said.

Her mother has told her that if she likes Sky View and wants to stay at the school, she'll have to abide by the rules.

Mom, no.  Show some backbone and get your daughter out of that hellhole before it turns into another Columbine from all the lovelessness there.

Seriously.  Any place that would squash morale and love like that is another mass-murder shoot-'em-up begging to happen.

Mark my words.