as a teacher...it\'s unfortunate that things like this happen....but......kids do take things a lot further (or is it farther) then they should.  It gets out of hand.  They see each other in the halls every 42 minutes and they have the scream and hug like they haven\'t seen each other in years.  Then the boys do it to a girl...(with a little grab in there) an now there are problems.  Believe me...I don\'t know any teacher who is against appropriate acts of kindness towards others but sometime it does go overboard.  I\'m sure this is what has happened because we experienced the same thing and once things got back to normal the rules relaxed again.