PDA Go Away!

Many students dwell on the topic of Public Displays of Affection. Students see couples practicing PDA in the hallways almost every day.  Teachers reprimand these students, telling them that it is unnecessary and that they should go to class. Efforts have been made to stop PDA in school, but many seem to fail.

In the beginning of the year, Public Displays of Affection were not as prevalent as they are now, at the beginning of the third quarter. PDA makes both students and teachers feel uncomfortable.

Said drafting instructor Sara Shelton, “If you have to wipe the slobber off your face, then you know you are into it too much.” She also stated that the area around her room attracts a lot students interested in PDA.

“It’s disgusting,” says English teacher Sarah Wilkinson.

“I, for one, can’t figure out why they want to kiss in the first place,” says English teacher Zachary Houp.  “The only things that ever came of kissing were disease-swapping and chapped lips.  And don’t even get me started on cooties.”

Most students and all teachers don’t like walking through the hallways and seeing an over-exaggeration of PDA.  For FAHS Principal Michael DeAntonio, it goes beyond modesty and becomes an issue of respect.

“We should be in a place where students should be respectful enough to not make out in the hallway,” states DeAntonio.

It may be disturbing for students when they see others making out, but it is the teachers’ responsibility to stop the couple in the hallway; students should not be the heroes of modesty at FAHS.  The students should not attempt to stop the gesture because it could create more of a problem than it solves.

Holding hands and sharing quick kisses would be okay in the hallway as long as these acts didn’t disturb others in the hallway. But when those gestures grow in intensity, a line has been clearly crossed.

Offenders were too lip-locked to comment.