Break up the tongue hockey you two. What’s the big deal???? We’re just kissing. Student couples at SLz have different ways of showing affection for one another. Some methods are appropriate, some are inappropriate for school. However there are different opinions where to draw the line in this public setting. Some staff members say student couples showing affection towards each other gets in the way with students abilities to concentrate on school. “Truthfully I don’t think they should be doing anything, it’s just a distraction,” P.E teacher Wright said. There are others that say that the basic principles of public display are appropriate. “Holding hands, cuddling, kissing is okay but not messy kissing where you can see their tongue,” Sophomore Stacey Daniels said. These actions seem to be okay but there are students who seem to take these principles to the next level. “I have to intervene in on students heavily kissing probably two or three times a day,” Principal Theresa McEwen said. Some students own up to their actions and admit that they use inappropriate behavior. “I don’t think we are appropriate for school, but that’s the only time we really get to see each other,” said Junior Christina Mai. Although there are inappropriate and appropriate ways couples displ the actual policy at school is unknown. “I don’t know the rule [for public display of affection],” McEwen said. In some cases public display of affection can be viewed differently if a homosexual couple was portraying it but some people say they’re entitled to show affection as anyone else is. “Nothings wrong with homosexuals displaying they’re together, it’s just like straight people, Sophomore Jazmine Anderson said. Although the rule on the policy is unknown, there are couples who have gotten Wednesday detentions for it. “We both had passes to go to the bathroom and we were kissing by the library in B hall, and [an administrator] walked by and said ‘oh my gosh stop kissing,’” Sophomore Tonjya Montalvo said. “She told Charnay [Bell], ‘I told you guys to watch were you kissed at and I expected you to tell her [Tonjya] the same thing.’” Despite the differences of sexual preferences the same principals still apply to both sexualities. “The same rules would still apply to a homosexual couple opposed to a heterosexual couple,” McEwen said. There are heterosexual couples that have also been broken up because their public actions. “One of the security workers said ‘you guys are too close, you need to back off’ and then Donald [her boyfriend] got mad,” Mai said. Even though the way homosexual couples display their affection can be viewed differently, some say that they’re entitled to show their affection the same as a heterosexual couple would. “If two girls or two guys kiss I think they have the same right to kiss that a heterosexual couple does,” Wright said. “However, I did have to tell a homosexual couple to go somewhere because they were going at it pretty hard.” However there are some students [despite their sexual preferences] who privately choose to show their affection. “I see students in the bleachers or going to the “football field” during lunch, but I guess that’s a little better then doing in public,” Wright said.