A Florida eighth-grader named Ella Fishbough was given a detention after teachers observed her hugging a friend before class.
The school district's rules ban "inappropriate touching," but Ella says she "just like hugged them. It was literally for a second." She told reporters she is now afraid to touch any other students in any way.
"I did ask the principal, if something happened in our family, and she needed to console her cousin or her cousin wanted to console her, would she get in trouble?," said Fishbough's mother, Kathy, who worried that school administrators cannot tell the difference between appropriate and inappropriate contact. The principal said, "'Yes, ma'am. She would get a [detention].'"Bonnie Kristian
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